I’m struggling with the best way to take a photo of my complete burning shadows commons set. There’s 42 cards including some energys i chucked in. I toke a picture of them all next to eachother, or even half and it looks blurry. Not sure if it’s the lighting but I have a sony xperia xz premium, so the camera is definitely not to blame.
Perhaps the yellow lighting in his is reflecting directly off the cards in toploaders. Any advice on how to showcase these? All cards are in plastic wallets inside toploaders.
I do have a special canvas box, i can take individual photos with but I can’t fit all of the cards in there at once. Here’s an example of my other cards:
Boy you need more light. A big ol’ soft, large light source pointed directly at the front of the card. Or a flash bounced off of a white shoebox or piece of white cardboard or something. But more light!
Oh, but your question was mostly about how to showcase a large number of cards, my bad. I’ve been struggling with that question myself. I’d say find a neutral background and lay them out in groups of 10 or whatever works best. Some people use a tabletop, some use clean carpet, I’m not sure what I’d do though to be honest.
yea, it is pretty dark, I didn’t have the right kind of lights, I used a makeshift horizontal strobe for that box. Probably a bit misleading that i put it in the post xD
I used my tabletop but i think i should retry in the day. The orange yellow kind of light from above doesn’t help, i need organic lighting. I’ll try again in the daytime.
Like Hypernova said, you need more light. With low light your camera phone will struggle to focus. It’ll compensate and use a wider aperture resulting in a smaller depth of field and less sharpness. It’ll use a slower shutter speed to allow more light in but will introduce motion blur. It’ll use a higher ISO to make the sensor more sensitive to light but also introduce digital noise that makes the image look mushy.
All those problems go away with more light.
I use natural light from a large window, some white paper and a torch to help bounce light back and fill the shadows. Having a camera with manual settings that you can control and a tripod will help, and some editing software.
