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What is the Best Way to Photograph the POMH Pins?

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What is the Best Way to Photograph the POMH Pins?
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Title says it all really; what is the best way to photograph the cells on the piece of movie history pins? I have seen some people on the board who have taken amazing shots of them - need some help please! I have one to photograph atm but the cell corner is close to the pin border.

Hints / Tips / Advice??

Thank you :)
 
What has worked best for me is to pull up a blank MS Word document on my monitor, and hold the pin in front of the white screen to take the picture. Usually I can rest the backer card on my keyboard and lean it against the monitor so it props itself up, don't have to worry about a blurry pic from me moving too much. ;-)
 
discusmike said:
What has worked best for me is to pull up a blank MS Word document on my monitor, and hold the pin in front of the white screen to take the picture. Usually I can rest the backer card on my keyboard and lean it against the monitor so it props itself up, don't have to worry about a blurry pic from me moving too much. ;-)
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Yep, this. And it's better to take a picture with a decent camera that has a macro setting. If you don't have macro, then I think it might be better to take the picture from farther away, and zoom and/or crop. But make sure the camera is focusing. On my camera, the box turns green when it's in focus, it's yellow when it isn't. I think a lot of times people try to take a picture from too close, or zoom in too close and the camera can't focus properly. A lot of cameras have a lot of megapixels now, so you can take a picture from farther away and crop, and still have it look decent.
 
hopemax said:
Yep, this. And it's better to take a picture with a decent camera that has a macro setting. If you don't have macro, then I think it might be better to take the picture from farther away, and zoom and/or crop. But make sure the camera is focusing. On my camera, the box turns green when it's in focus, it's yellow when it isn't. I think a lot of times people try to take a picture from too close, or zoom in too close and the camera can't focus properly. A lot of cameras have a lot of megapixels now, so you can take a picture from farther away and crop, and still have it look decent.
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Thanks for your help Discussmike and Hopemax, I'm going to try this technique later :)
 
Nice shots by your husband!

I took this one of mine using the light from the window:
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