Foam gave me bad reflection, but that's not to say it cant be done.
Here's a pic of mine...4.0 mp camera, macro mode, no flash, under a "natural" light, with the blue paper background...
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5773/1000506i.jpg
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Foam gave me bad reflection, but that's not to say it cant be done.
Here's a pic of mine...4.0 mp camera, macro mode, no flash, under a "natural" light, with the blue paper background...
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5773/1000506i.jpg
If you want to get some really nice pictures of flies, reels, rods, etc. you can always build a light tent.
PVC pipe, a white sheet, colored poster board from Michaels or other crafts stores, come cheap lights.
Here's a site that shows how simple it is.
http://www.eyefetch.com/tutorial-light-tent-101.aspx
I built mine from a tutorial on Pbase (the site is down right not, but you can Google up building a light tent and find the Pbase site when it's back up.)
These are some pictures I took of a couple Farlow fly reels and then flies some friends tied.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...enaby525oz.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...nandpanton.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/3339f95b.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/bfc3be6b.jpg
I've used scrap booking paper, crumpled velvet for backgrounds too. The possibilities are limitless.
Depends on the subject for the shoot, of course, but I often like a simple black towel.
It doesn't "bounce" light back into the camera, but lets the subject stand alone.
Here's a few examples from the near past... (Stuff from my wood shop)
But see how the black towel makes things "pop" ?
I would like to get a slave flash for my Olympus 560, but it costs as much as the camera did. I use contruction paper or a towel for a background. My autofocus wants to key on what's behind the subject in macro shots. Need to read the book again I guess.:mrgreen:
gl, try moving your background farther from the subject....