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Photographing soda bottles - 2/5/2003 5:28:55 PM    Guest Does anyone have any good tips for photographing soda bottles? I' ve set up a big piece of white paper covering the table and wall for a plain backdrop. Initially getting enough light was a problem, but moving the backdrop near a north window now gives me plenty of light. My problem is that the shiny glass of the bottle reflects the blue sky out the window, as well as any white cards I placed nearby to reflect more indirect light, and the extra lights I turned on to make everything brighter. Anyone have any clever tips on how to make the bottle look more " natural" without all the weird distracting reflections? MattP   Post #: 1

RE: Photographing soda bottles - 2/20/2003 9:09:20 PM    Guest i have photographed a lot of bottles .some are tricky.photo outside sun at your back stand back and zoom in .find a diffrent angle if you get glare. buy a quartz painter light with a frosted glass lens.mayby at a local hardware store . i got one at lowes for 24.99.dont get it to close.this works well inside.white is a good color backdrop for a digital camera but not glossy white.white gives digital photos smaller file size ! pics will download faster if you post them on the net and you get more photos per disc or chip. if your camera has a optical zoom play with distance.stay out of your own light source.clear bottles need a light backdrop but pure white is not the best .hope you get something you can use out of this! diggerjeff (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 2

RE: Photographing soda bottles - 1/20/2004 6:51:22 AM    ladyp3797   Posts: 60 Joined: 1/19/2004 From: New England Status: offline I have had a lot of luck with scanning on a flat bed scanner for many bottles. I use a heavy white cloth over the bottle instead of closing the cover, and you can hold the bottle by hand while scanning if it rolls, or use something on top of the cloth (so that it won't show in the scan ) on each side of the bottle. For lots of bottles it shows the colors very nicely and the details compared to photos in most cases are much sharper. (in reply to Guest) Post #: 3

RE: Photographing soda bottles - 1/20/2004 10:11:10 AM    Harry Pristis   Posts: 495 Joined: 7/24/2003 From: Northcentral Florida Status: offline Any glossy bottle may produce highlights with a light-source in front of the bottle. Many of the best bottle pics I have seen on eBay are taken on a shaded widow sill looking out on a sunny day. IOW, the bottles are back-lighted. I use a physician's x-ray viewer light-box as a backlight for most of my images. Still, if I need additional light such as a flash, I have to adjust the angle of the bottle to minimize the highlights. I might take 6 or 8 or 20 images to get the right one (that is the beauty of a digital camera!). Even then I may have to "clean up" a small highlight using a "clone tool." Here is an image I made to send a friend, not for publication. I probably made 10 images (flash/no flash, close to the backlight/further away, and different angles). What finally worked best was no flash, about 3 feet from the backlight, and an angle of about 10-12degrees from the vertical. --------------Harry Pristis Attachment (1) _____________________________ ______________________________________________ Visit The Demijohn Page at: http://members.aol.com/pristis/index.html (in reply to Guest) Post #: 4

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