My parents are big into reselling stuff from like a garage sale as a hobby and I need some gift ideas for them taking pictures of items, right now they have a mannequin, a backdrop, and a ring light and that’s about it, a problem I know my mom has is that the framed pictures she try’s taking pictures of have a big glare in them and I was thinking like maybe a 1 way mirror or something similar might work but I have no clue, I’ve also seen those mirror dome things and that’s what gave me the idea but they are too expensive, any ideas?
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Not sure about how to use this as a gift, but I can tell you the way to photograph artwork, it’s called “copy stand lighting” this discussion thread shows some setups https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/copy-stand-lighting.181663/
Could be as simple as a couple of gooseneck lamps.
You want a polarizing filter that fits the lens she uses. You twist it and adapt it to glare so it disappears.
For small items, you can get them a small lightbox on ebay for under $25. For the larger items, a couple of ideas.
You need better lighting setups. Two things you could do. Buy some speedlights. There’s generic ones for around $40 that work just fine. Need to make sure they have the slave/master relationship. Get some help buying the right gear.
The other thing you could do, buy one speedlight, and get a bounce source with a way to keep it upright.