[Ohiodig] some links to photography-related info

[McCrory, Amy]

Hi all,

Yesterday's meeting was really enjoyable. Everyone seems to have some exciting project (or multiple projects!) going on these days.

Nilabh Chaudhary asked specifically about photography of museum objects. Here's a couple resources I've found useful:

Lighting Methods for Photographing Museum Objects, by Carl Bigras, Mylene Choquette, and Jeremy Powell. Published by the Canadian Conservation Institute.
This is a good reference manual, with illustrations, showing lighting setups that work well for various objects.

Light: Science and Magic, by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, and Paul Fuqua.
This book is somewhat more theoretical and takes a lot longer to absorb. But it's very useful for thinking about light and how it behaves.

For both books, a prerequisite would be knowing how to use manual controls on a DSLR camera, and understanding the differences between types of lenses.

Finally, in response to the question about getting gold on manuscripts to reflect, here's a post<https://library.osu.edu/site/digitalscholarship/2015/09/10/photographing-manuscripts/> I wrote about it (along with some other manuscript issues) a few years ago. Note that although the relevant photographic setup shows plain speedlight flashes aimed at the manuscript, I actually place softbox diffusers over the flashes a lot of the time, to avoid having light that's too harsh.

I hope this will be helpful!

Amy

[The Ohio State University]
Amy McCrory
Digitization Program Manager
University Libraries Preservation & Digitization Department
125D Library Tech Center
1165 Kinnear Road  Columbus, OH  43212 USA
(614) 292-8647
Photography portfolio<https://amymccrory.wordpress.com/>
Pronouns: she/her/hers | Honorific: Ms.

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