Couple new ones mostly trying pic taking

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The pens looks good, very lgood fit and finish. The picture, OTOH, have way too much contrast. What are you using for lighting?
 
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The lighting was natural lighting coming through my living room window. The backgroung is one of them car window shades. Dont like the pics as I feel the reflection from the background made the pic a funny color, kinda a green tint.

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I don't use a stand, yours works well. Your background is kinda sorry. I have to ditto the underwear comment. [:0] A seamless background that has close to the same shade as your object works best to reduce contrast. Wal-Mart, in the craft department, sells square of felt in many colors, real cheap. Buy a bunch of those and stand or lay your pen on them for a simple, underwear free, background. Pens are fine, kinda dark in the picture.
 
Well, I liked the background, except for the black line at the bottom LOL And it looks like patterned/ribbed glass to me, on my computer.

On a fluke, I've been taking some of our pictures on two pieces of 'patterned' vellum-- guess its supposed to be like marble or something-- a white on white. It was all I had at one show as I was cutting some paper items and just used it. I've used felt, velvet and for a while, a scrap of cream burlap was my favorite background choice.


But I truly thought it was a cool piece of narrow ribbed glass-- which might really make anice backdrop!!!

To keep down some of the glare, try holding up a piece of white paper to shadow it just a bit, kind of like a photographers' white umbrella. Now, if only I took my own advice........ lol
 
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