How can I photograph finished pieces with glass on them without getting a glare from my flash bulb?
I try to take pictures of my pieces with glass in good light so I don’t have to use a flash. Make sure the sun or over head light isn’t glaring off the glass. Usually comes out all right. – Theresa Venette If you have to take a photo indoors, you will do best with two lights. Set them on either side of your piece, so that the light from the one on the left hits about 2/3 of the way towards the right, and the one on the right about 2/3 of the way towards the left. The relection will “bounce” off the glass, and to the side rather than straight back at you. You don’t want the lights to hit in the center, because then the center will be over-lit, and the rest under. Hope that makes sense. – Jane Q: I read your article with interst, then guilt, then alarm. I have a very old sampler (made by Emily Margaret Jacobs, a sort of great, great, aunt when she was 11 in 1869). It spent about 110 years folded up in various keepsake places and when my grandmother gave it to me about 15 years ago I thou
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