I went through this with a photographer last weekend, and after
brainstorming for a while, we wound up just going to down our local
art store and found a 3M product that works great. I don't have it in
front of me, but it's basically an acid-free dual-sided adhesive,
about 1/2" square and maybe 1/16" thick. Worked great for our
session, only wound up using a few. They come right off of the
posters with no residue. Hope this might help.
It was great for me, as I almost bought a 7' air hockey table with the
intent of hooking up a vaccuum in place of the motor and suck my
posters to the surface flat so I could photograph them that way. The
pack of like 30 is around $2.89.
Steve Zammar
www.dsonesheets.com
movieposterblog.blogspot.com
303/478-3973
On 8/13/05, az <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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