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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ironwood" data-source="post: 147618" data-attributes="member: 10447">I bought a Nikkor AF 55D f2.8 micro for taking photos of my pens, you can check out my progress in this thread - <a href="http://nikonites.com/project-365-daily-photos/7645-ironwoods-pen-journey.html#axzz2SsLyV0wG" target="_blank">http://nikonites.com/project-365-daily-photos/7645-ironwoods-pen-journey.html#axzz2SsLyV0wG</a> I think pens will be similar to your figurines, ultimately you want as much as possible to be in focus, and the photo to be as sharp as possible and showing true colours. I have found getting all of my pen in focus at the same time to be near on impossible, I have used f16 on most of the photos in that thread, as I am told smaller than that will start to introduce diffraction. Lately I have tried some smaller apertures, and I think I prefer to have the deeper DOF, I can't notice any loss of image quality as a result, but a more experienced eye might see something that I can't.Your 18-55 will yield quite good results, but a better lens will give you sharper photos. I have some comparisons in my pen thread if you want to check them out.As others have already said the further you are away from the subject will increase your DOF, so getting back a bit and cropping later does help.Edit- not sure if you are using AF , if you are turn it off and manual focus, you will get the best results possible.Not sure how much trouble you want to go to for each photo, but another option is focus stacking, I have seen some close-ups of flowers, with the whole flower in perfect focus, there are some examples in various threads on the forum. DaveW has a thread with some great looking photos using focus stacking. It is something that I want to try, but haven't gotten around to it yet.</blockquote>

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