This photo was taken with a backwards Canon 50mm f/1.8 held onto the front of my Canon XTi, ISO 800, 1/80s. Because I wear glasses, I'm always struggling with getting in-focus shots without the use of autofocus, and this shot was no exception. No matter what I tried I kept feeling that I wasn't getting sharp images. Of course the fact that I had the lens on the camera backwards probably wasn't helping matters. :) The setup here was basically my camera on a tripod in front of a table, with the watch (LUM-TEC Combat B3, one of my favorite) sitting under a bright desk lamp a couple inches from the lens. The hardest part was probably getting the watch face close to parallel with the lens - the shallow depth of field afforded by f/1.8 made getting a lot of the watch face in-focus difficult.
- Shaun Wrightson
