[ctuna]

I need to take some pictures of wedding dresses. They are white with white trim and white beads. each white is a different shade but close to each other. any advise on how to get the best pictures.
I am using a Sony F63 with the 3 1/2 disk on a windows XP 2.6G cpu and 512 Ram.

[slipe]

I can’t find any reference to your camera. I’m guessing it might be a Mavica, but I think they all have FD designations and I see no FD 63 either. A 3.5 inch floppy holds 1.44Mb total. That makes for some pretty small images. If you just want to display images online it is sufficient.

What you need is some lighting from the side to make some shadows. A movie light might work if you move it back a way and also maybe use the camera flash. A small halogen work light would work as well if you have one of those. They have remote flash units that aren’t pricey that are triggered by the camera flash. You could put one of those to the side, but you might have to lower the EV if the camera doesn’t have TTL metering.

You might want to lower the EV a little in any case if your camera allows that. It is easy to burn out the highlights and not be able to recover them in software. You might want to bracket the EV as it might want to lower it on its own with all that white in the picture.

Digital pictures are cheap. Take lots of pictures with different settings and whatever lighting you have at different angles and distances. But you need to get some lighting other than the camera flash.