Need to expertly photograph a large film print

Steve S · Mar 26, 2005

Doing photo shoot for a golf instructor's brochure he's making, and he wants to include a landscape pic that's already been printed in a large 11x16 size from film.

What's the best way to do this? I have a studio, including strobes & softboxes, etc.

Removed User 2 · Mar 28, 2005

I'd go like this:

Studio
The print under a clean glas, well pressed. If it's framed, then I hope the framing job was well done.
1 soft box at the camera level (exactly where the camera is. If there is a reflection, then move the flash until there is no more reflection. Try a polarizer too.

You must have the camera exactly parallel to the print. Otherwise you will enocunter new problems.

Shoot raw, of course, and make a pre-white balance.

That's about it

Steve S · Mar 28, 2005

"pic of pic" all done and looking good

It was mounted in one of those "frameless" frames, with just glass and support clips, so it was easy to take the glass off. Followed both your, and others' tips from DPR, setting it directly below my D2x/60 Micro, mounted vertically on my Markins ballhead and tripod, and used a cable release. Shot it in raw @1/20th, f7.1, Kelvin 5300, (an educated WB guess), lit it with my 47in Octabox on an AB400, angled about 45 deg. Also used a previous shot taken with my Greytag-Macbeth card for Black, Grey, White references in PS. Finally, saved it in 3 different colorspaces, aRGB, sRGB, and finally one in CMYK, since I don't know what the printer wants. I honestly cannot tell it's a "pic of a pic". It's a perfect reproduction.

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Need to expertly photograph a large film print

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