28 Jan
1999
28 Jan
'99
3:27 p.m.
At 10:07 PM 1/28/99 -0600, you wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for ways to photograph
parts of my
collection? All i have is a basic 35mm camera and a polaroid...
Should i use high speed 35mm film becasue of low light conditions indoors,
or is a slower speed more important? Or is it important to have a white
background for contrast.. Or should i try placing things on a flat bed
scanner, etc..
Well... from my perspective:
Medium speed film if you have the light, altho I'll admit that I use ASA400
a lot when I'm shooting equipment so I have more latitude on depth of field.
A couple of halogen work lights are adaquate for lighting most sessions,
unless you have something like a NeXT cube. (all black!)
Backgrounds to taste, as long as you don't use reflective lighting. Those
familiar with my web pages may note that I'm somewhat fond of blue for
backgrounds.
Putting things in the flat-bed scanner does not work well... (for me at
least) The shadows created as the carriage scans, along with the short
focus most scanners have tends to cause odd artifacts in the images.
Better to shoot to print or slide and go from there.
I've also tried video captures on occasion... I'll leave it as an exercise
for the viewer to figure out which images came from that source. B^}
-jim
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