ann clare

Very useful tips. Thanks for sharing.

craftybear

great tips, thank you

brushandthimble

yes great tips from all of you, I will try to use, thanks.

quiltergirl80

thanks!

cindyg

I will have to try taking pix outside. Someone told me once to take pix of quilts outside on an overcast day. The colors show better and there is not a problem with shadows. Now, I have not tried this yet but I will soon.

Kas

Ragdoll, where did you get that pattern? I just love it! And your color choices are fantastic, too. Where do I get one?

ClairVoyantQuilter

Thanks for the great tips :) As a professional portrait photographer, I couldn't agree more about taking quilts outdoors to photograph. However, sun over one shoulder as a opposed to the other shoulder really doesn't matter when photographing inanimate objects. Sun over the photographer's left shoulder causes a catch light in the upper right quadrant of the subject's iris which is considered desirable in portrait photography :)

Purrfect

Another professional photographer here, I have been taking photos of my quilts on the design wall, but as I make Queen Size I was finding it hard to get it all in and the colour was less than pleasing. But I've just had a lightbulb moment, I have my very large backdrop stand packed away somewhere which would be fantastic to display my quilts on outside for that perfect shot, along with using those curtain rod clamps I've seen. Would like to give it a go with my studio light setup also. Don't know why I haven't done this sooner. I will post a pic after I've set it up. Have you given this a try clairvoyantquilter.

DoxieMom

Although I try to take advantage of as much natural light as possible, I also often try playing with a copy of the digital image using my photo processing program. Sometimes adjusting contrast and brightness compensates and makes colors appear much closer to the original and results in a better "record" of my quilting project.

bjchad

Some great tips both here and in the thread. If you must use flash. Especially on a point and shoot camera you can help make it softer and more pleasing by taping or holding a piece of tissue over the flash. This acts as a diffuser and generally gives better results. Also good for photographing people.