I've been going through a series of methods for photographing my
posters on the walls (when you have cats the floor doesn't work for
this.) I am still stumped for a method to use to keep the poster on the
wall. I started out using the clamp hooks on nails that I've seen used
on some galleries, but found these are only a good idea if you're going
to leave one poster up for a while for exhibiting purposes (changing
them about is a deadly invitation to further damage.) Then I put up a
series of cork squares and found the cork too thick to relly keep the
pushpins down in place AND a long, laborious process putting this up,
taking them down, putting them up again, etc. I'm now looking at
putting up a metal bar at the top so I can use magnets to put the top
of the posters and straighten out the posters with the clamp hooks
attached to the bottom. Anybody have any comments, further ideas?
AlfredoZ
On Aug 13, 2005, at 5:43 PM, JR wrote:
Natalie,
You have to either place the poster to be photographed on the wall or
on the floor. If on the wall, you light it evenly (best to use
indirect lighting that is "bounced off" the wall opposite the poster).
Then you stand back from the poster -- put the camera on a tripod,
they're cheap -- and center the camera on the center of the poster,
making sure the image in the LCD screen is showing straight lines
up-and-down and left-to right compared to the border of the screen.
That will give you a reasonably straight-edged photo without a lot of
"keystoning" (the technical term for the "long ago, far away"
trapezoid look you get when one part of the poster is closer to the
camera than another).
If you put the poster on the floor, directly beneath an overhead light
source, it will tend to have even lighting. Then, you stand on a chair
or sturdy coffee table and lean out over the middle of the poster to
center the image in the LCD screen as above. This is the tricky part,
but it can be done with a little practice.
Either way, the trick is make sure that all parts of the poster are
the same distance from the camera.
--JR
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