Nothing fancy needed. You can prop up some white sheet cloth and use flood lights from behind and make it as small as needed. Turn off flash! Set your picture stage inside. All those bright spots and shadows will be gone. It makes an ordinary picture look more professional and magazine quality. Shiny objects just throw too much light back at the camera, which greatly distorts.C-dub wrote:I was thinking a little about this due to shadows and had not considered "diffused" lighting. I'll check into that a bit to see if it something I can do without too much trouble.Archery1 wrote:The method of taking pictures of jewelry and other shiny objects is to use diffused light. This keeps the light refraction from coming back into the picture, which distorts clarity. With diffused, all the tiny details, colors, and contours will look more magazine quality. Look up how to build a simple light tent from a sheet with lamps giving light from the outside. It's a trick collectors use to get the most defined and quality pics of items.
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- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:35 am
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- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:21 am
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Re: Firearm Photography
The method of taking pictures of jewelry and other shiny objects is to use diffused light. This keeps the light refraction from coming back into the picture, which distorts clarity. With diffused, all the tiny details, colors, and contours will look more magazine quality. Look up how to build a simple light tent from a sheet with lamps giving light from the outside. It's a trick collectors use to get the most defined and quality pics of items.