Cutting Edge Lens

This is a repost of a thread I started on the macro forum. I thought some of you who are lusting for a macro lens might not
have seen it over there.

I think I may have found a new gig for the Nikon 60mm micro.

A friend of mine is a member of a knife club... a large group of well heeled collectors. He was showing me some of precious
blades when I came up with the idea of photographing rare knives, not documentary for insurance purposes, but for
framable prints. He lent me a few rare specimens to test the concept.









Note, due to the large size of the knife in the last picture, I used The Beast at the wide end of its zoom. However, I captured the
maker's mark with the 60mm micro.

I'm making Ed prints so he can take them to his next club meeting and test the market for me.

 

Thanks for the encouragement, folks! I've decided to go for the roses, and have matted and framed all 4 samples. They look pretty good, and it will be a fair test to see if the pictures are good enough to excite the high end knife collector crowd. I'll report back when I get feedback.

 

Keep your fingers crossed for me, Gordon. I need a strong revenue stream to feed this expensive hobby, and there aren't many weddings in the winter.

Count on it, my friend .

 

Thanks for the links, Andy. You have to have an account to enter the USN site, so I didn't get to view the gallery. Maybe you could post a few of your shots here.

My only other examples have been in one of Jim Weyer's books that my friend lent me along with his knives. Weyer is an outstanding still life artist, so his compositional style is way outside my range.

 

My goodness, I'm blushing from that review, NB. I hope you're right about the commercial potential. It would be a boon for an event photographer during the slow season.