Taking good photos of your collection
Article about: Hello, Just thought you guys may find this helpful. Ive been looking at photography light boxes etc on the net and they can be pretty expensive so I thought I could make one for less than £1
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Taking good photos of your collection
Hello,
Just thought you guys may find this helpful. Ive been looking at photography light boxes etc on the net and they can be pretty expensive so I thought I could make one for less than £15, and I did for less than £10
cardboard box with sides and top cut out - free
grease proof paper to cover the holes 88p
Lamps £2 each
card to line the box £1
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Heres how the pictures look
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any questions feel free to ask, im no photographer but I will try and help.
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Re: Taking good photos of your collection
Good job and very effective! What watt bulbs are in the lamps, the brighter the better I guess?
There is a thread in the TR Decorations forum with a few tips on photographing your medals and one member has shown a cheap way to add more light to an object using led lights. You can view the thread here.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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Re: Taking good photos of your collection
Im not too sure how many watts the bulbs are I will have to take a look later, I should really be using daylight bulbs to eliminate the pinky orange colour in the pictures, Cheers for the link I will take a look now
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