Austin, nice piece of work there.

If you want to get outstanding photos, take a look at my thread in the "Picture Gallery", "How to improve Your Knife Photos", and as my friend, Tony LaPetri, might say, "Take it outside".

See his post of 7/03/2015, post #129342, and see how a overcast day can work wonders on details.

Also check out Steve Holzinger's photos taken with a "point-and-shoot" camera.

If you're using a smartphone to take photos, send the photos to yourself, and when the prompt asks you for the choice of image file size, you choose something around 400-500kb.