Designer and Comfort

[JCochrun]

The Designer is purple acrylic. The Comfort is stabilized blue box elder.

Photo question....How do you all take the pictures of your pens? Seems like all the other pen pictures are so much better than mine. Just want to make sure that my pictures show off the pens well enough.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[76winger]

It looks like you're taking flash pictures, which is how I started out as well. I'd take about 50 pictures just to get 4 or 5 "decent" ones. But since then I've changed just about everything from getting a new camera that has some flexibility to making a photo booth to help keep things consistent for me. You can see a thread of my learning experience in this older thread I started:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1156380#post1156380

There's also many different techniques for using natural lighting and you'll find some discussion on those in the Pen Photography forum as well. Check that forum out for lots of good ideas on improving your results!

 

[JCochrun]

Thanks Dave. I'll check it all out and see if I can get better pictures.

Jim

 

[rizaydog]

I bought a cheap photo tent on ebay recently that works well. It was 24"x24" so I can photo bowls and other large items. It came with 2 lights and a tripod. The tripod sux but the lights are good. Cost $50 shipped.