Excellent
a photography forum without the need to go to a photography forum.

I bought a Canon Powershot G9 as I thought it would help me to take better photos of the bits and bobs that I find with my metal detector (1cm to 5cm items, some flat, some bulky). Having pissed around with all of the settings, bought so called table top lighting from ebay (about 3 feet tall and just too short to light them from the floor), photo studio strip lights for the kitchen and experimented with full sun and cloudy daylight, I still can't get a photo that I'm happy with UNLESS I put the item on a dark surface. But I want a white back ground!

What would you do, any advice?
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Sun 24 May 2009, 19:48, 1 reply)

tried just keeping it ultra-simple
default settings on the camera, and taken in full daylight? then if it needs anymore tweaking doing it on Photoshop?

www.ephotozine.com/

www.thinkcamera.com/default.asp?sp=&v=1
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Mon 25 May 2009, 14:56, closed)

Yeah tried that
too much shadow.

Best pics I can get are on a dark green background in cloudy daylight. Two problems with that:
I want a white background.
Light is variable so e.g. two sides of coin are not the same colour when pics viewed side by side.

I will read the links thanks.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Mon 25 May 2009, 16:34, closed)