Photo tips

[spartygw]

What's the secret to taking photos of slabs without picking up reflections? I've tried nearly every room in my house and I can't figure out how to eliminate it.

[CardPadre]

Try standing them up against something at close to a 90 degree angle as opposed to trying to take a laying flat picture if you haven’t tried that. That’s one thing I’d try first.


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[Lucas00]

Natural Light or a flashlight in a dark room (attached examples of both, note my phone isnt the newest so it will look even better with newer hardware) and a piece of black construction paper/dark color folder etc as the background. You can take some very nice photos this way.

Team issue postcard is natural light.

1971 Topps was taken in the dark with a light source (undergraded lol).

Both images are also cropped.

[spartygw]

Thanks for the tips, will try again.

Geez, that 71 is beautiful. Grading 71s is not fair. Topps did us no favors with black borders.

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Natural Light or a flashlight in a dark room (attached examples of both, note my phone isnt the newest so it will look even better with newer hardware) and a piece of black construction paper/dark color folder etc as the background. You can take some very nice photos this way.

Team issue postcard is natural light.

1971 Topps was taken in the dark with a light source (undergraded lol).

Both images are also cropped.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by spartygw

Thanks for the tips, will try again.

Geez, that 71 is beautiful. Grading 71s is not fair. Topps did us no favors with black borders.

Let me know how they turn out.

And I agree, on the 71s. Fun to collect them though, like a never ending hunt for most 71 heads.

[mcgwirecom]

I used to use a scanner