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Photographers and wanna be photographers I need yer help

Homerboy

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My wife has started a small business and I am in the porcess of creating the website for her. However Im stuck on the best way to photograph her items.

Basically I have some 7/8" Ribbon to take pictures of and disaply in ~130x130 pixel thumbnails. Id like a solid color background (white likely) that I can certainly chop out and edit in photoshop... but its gett the initial photographs to work with Im having issues with...

I REALLY like how this site did it, but I can hardly get my photos to look like that...

Any and ALL suggestions are welcome. PM me for more details I guess.

Thanks
 
Take 25-35 shots of each ribbon. That's the way to do it. Just keep shooting until you get something good. Professional photographers often go through and entire roll of film and only get one decent photograph.

ZV
 
hehe yeah I know that "trick" already... In fact Ive oftened preached that about photography that any could shoot 100 rolls and come out with a bunch of "priceless" and "perfect" pictures.

But I guess Im asking more on "how to set up the shots" or even if anyone has any ideas on how to arrange the ribbons etc... something I hadnt thought of
 
I believe the best way to go about getting pics like those on that site would be to use some sort of light box with all white on the inside. Than simply coil the strands however you like and take the pics using the macro feature if necessary.

Light boxes can be purchased but I have never seen why they could not be easily made.
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Take 25-35 shots of each ribbon. That's the way to do it. Just keep shooting until you get something good. Professional photographers often go through and entire roll of film and only get one decent photograph.

ZV
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Try an entire brick of film. heh
 
Well I have several nice large memory sticks and at lower res each can fit about 800 pictures so quantity is not an issue.

What should I be using as a backdrop though? just white paper? or ??? I guess Im looking more so for the technical tricks of setting up the shoot.
 
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