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[Paul]

Hi Guys

I was wondering how you guys do the lighting and stuff when taking pics of your lures....is there a certain position you get them?? I took a few but they turned out very dark and I had a light over top of the lures.

Any tips from the pros??

Thanks
Paul

[out2llunge]

Paul,

Hopefully the other guys can give you more tips, but I used a set of studio lights and still had issues. I think the best bet is just to bump up your ambient light levels. When you have a picture that's just too dark. Open it in Photoshop and choose IMAGE then ADJUST then BRIGHTNESS. You tweak the brightness there quite easily. You can also delete distracting backgrounds.

Cheers,

o2l

[Coley]

I use a white non reflective background, such as a bedsheet.
I lay the lure down on the floor and stand above it, I use
the flash. take the picture from about 3 ft. Use my photo
program to crop and resize.

Coley

[clemmy]

I found a great online article on this from the antique lure collecting community, please check out the rest of this guy's great site! I just look and drool...

http://www.antiquelu..._techniques.htm

[Dante]

my way is a little inconvenient but, it works perfectly on the right day.

get yourself a stark white background, and a digital camera.

set yourself outside up on an overcast day, set the camera to "outside lighting", set the flash to fire on every picture, and take the pictures from directly above the lure.

you'll end up with pictures of the baits that are crystal clear, have no shadow, and look beautiful.

[redg8r]

Heres my tips on hillbilly photography:

First check your camera documentation for a "macro" setting.
Macro will let you get the lens right up to the bait without losing focus.

lighting:
My wife does alot on eBay & she takes pics outside in the morning, in the shade. the ambient light before noon works well on light or dark backgrounds.

I shoot in my shop under flouescent lights, dark backgrounds tend to wash out details, light backgrounds work better on small details.

If your baits have "neon" or "flourenscent" paints on em, break out your blacklight from back in the 70's, mix it with normal lighting for nice effects.

Avoid all incandescent lights (light bulbs) they yellow, although I did find a nice bulb from GE, cant remember what its called but the bulb looks "light blue" but shines a nice white.

Last resorts are webcams, & scanners... webcams are usually grainy but focus well, & scanners are the simplest but tend to put a "rainbow" effect on some clearcoats.

Oh & spraypaint an old umbrella "silver" on the inside if you need a reflector. A camera tripod makes a great stand for it too.

good luck, you'll be a bait photographer in no time