Re: Photographing your micro RC car
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Since I started selling on eBay over a year and a half ago Ifound someuseful tips myself for taking clear pictures in good light.
I would have to say that a tripod is a must for taking clear images,using the 10 second timer of your camera in conjunction with a tripod ensures there’s no chance of a blurry image due to hand shake.
Sunlight is one of the best light sources available, unfortunately you can’t turn it on at 10pm when you just finished your paint job :smiley2:, so you can either try using a halogen spotlight (whiter than an ordinary bulb), or use the flash on your camera.
But using the flash on your camera results in horrible sharp contrasts and shadows, however you can get around this by holding some white card in front of the flashat a 45 degree angle so the light from the flash bounces up to the ceiling where it’s evenly dispersed and you end up with your object well lit which has smooth shadows.
I’ll post some pics of how I achieve well lit closeup shots (I have 2 digital cameras, an Olympus C-1000L with optical zoom & SLR which is just under a megapixel but takes amazing images, and a Kodak DX3700 which is a 3.3 megapixel but takes naff images) if someone can tell me how to post images here (is HTML allowed?).