your photos look so neat and professional! can you share a bit of your photo-taking process for your books (what camera do you use, lighting etc)? thank you!
Hello Anon,
sorry it took me a while to answer. First of all, thank you and thank you for inquiring.
My set up for taking photos is most simple. The pictures from 2021 are all taken with the camera of my smartphone. Since then I borrowed a Samsung NX 1100 digital camera from a friend along with a 20-50mm standard zoom lense.
As for background and lighting. I use two large sheets of paper and tape them to a wall to create a sort of infinity cove. Light comes from an Ikea reading lamp with a flexible neck and whatever daylight I get that day.
Mostly I end up taking around 15 pictures a book give or take. More, if there is a slipcase or clamshell box. The camera gives me jpg and raw files, but I only work with the jpg format (because I know much better how to use the programs for those). I weed out the pictures that are not focused on what I wanted to show and the remaining ones get some light touching up with Gimp and/or Affinity. Stuff, like rotating, cutting and cropping, tweaking the brightness and getting rid of the faint line where the two sheets of paper connect and that’s it.
I’m not a pro with any of this, but this set up works for me.
This is what it looks like when I take pictures.
