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Gift ideas to better product pics (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My parents are big into reselling stuff from like a garage sale as a hobby and I need some gift ideas for them taking pictures of items, right now they have a mannequin, a backdrop, and a ring light and that’s about it, a problem I know my mom has is that the framed pictures she try’s taking pictures of have a big glare in them and I was thinking like maybe a 1 way mirror or something similar might work but I have no clue, I’ve also seen those mirror dome things and that’s what gave me the idea but they are too expensive, any ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You want a polarizing filter that fits the lens she uses. You twist it and adapt it to glare so it disappears.

For small items, you can get them a small lightbox on ebay for under $25. For the larger items, a couple of ideas.

You need better lighting setups. Two things you could do. Buy some speedlights. There's generic ones for around $40 that work just fine. Need to make sure they have the slave/master relationship. Get some help buying the right gear.

The other thing you could do, buy one speedlight, and get a bounce source with a way to keep it upright.