There was one image of ice cream sundae which was so beautiful that I felt like buying it as print for my kitchen. I thought about that person who bought the expensive glasses and made it look so beautiful, then took the photo and edited it and did not get a sale.

Warping I have not tried. I didn't get that idea. I will try that. Thank you. My tripod goes up to 60.24 inch. Is that high enough? If I take a shot directly from above I do it handheld but have to use f5.6. I so don't want to increase the ISO. I use ISO80 but still get noise. I was thinking of buying a tripod with an arm that can reach over the table but they are very heavy. Yesterday I checked for ice cream sundaes on DT and was totally shocked to see that so many really good images didn't get one download. Some had 1 download in 4 years. Is it all worth it the expenses and time.... I wanted to make one and take a photo of one. Now I won't. 6004 mango juice images. They don't need any more. Maybe food photography is a bad idea for microstock. I am astonished that they are still taking photos. Aren't buyers frustrated to go through 6004 mango juice images....?

Hello Polar, thank you very much. I just tried it out and it worked. I had to crop a lot. I worked on the photo with one plate but with one right and one left it wouldn't work I guess.

I just checked on DT. There are photos with cups and saucers "falling" off the table. I am so surprised. And they got downloaded. I think it looks awful. Before I started with microstock I took cityscape and landscape photos only. Macro and food photography is totally new to me.

Thank you soooo much. I will try that next time. I wanted a close up and my lens goes only to 70mm.

Hello, I just checked. The photo I was talking about I have deleted but I have a similar one. I have attached it. This plate is only very slightly leaning to the right. On the photo with 2 plates they were leaning to the sides much more. A man said it can be corrected in Photoshop but he didn't mention how. This photo is not edited yet. I only quickly converted it to a Jpeg. What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much for your help. It means a lot to me.

I clicked on vertical ....in Lightroom but that effects the whole image and not the plate on the table. I want to show what's on the plate. If I shoot totally from above the plates look fine. If I shoot straight on you can't see so nice what's on the plate. These DSLR cameras are just so very heavy.

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I shoot with a Sony RX100M3. I can't go further away. I shoot at a 45 degree angle down. I use a tripod and because of that always zoom in between 50 to 65mm. I now bought  a slider. That way I don't have to zoom that much.

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That much for an XL? :-) I got 0.25  for an XL I sold on Fotolia. It was my first ever sold photo and I couldn't believe my eyes.

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Yes, I noticed that but I can't remove the lens of the camera body. That's why I am thinking of buying a different camera but it shouldn't be so very heavy. The screw on macro lens I bought for myself and not for microstock images. I knew that they are not good.

Yes, that is true. I read that f4 on my camera has much more DOF than on a DSLR. That explains why I need to use such a low f number for flower photography when i want to blur the background. A real challenge to blur the background with this camera. I took a real close up photo yesterday and one of these 3 garlic bulbs is really out of focus. But the asparagus photo?? Honestly, I can't see that being soft in focus. I think I need a new eye test. 

No, no, I have a 77% acceptance rate on DT. Then I uploaded the by DT accepted images to SS and they accepted only 70% of them. 3 rejected for lighting reasons and soft focus.

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