How to Photograph Documents

Greg Kennedy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:25:08 +0000

My brother-in-law had a project recently which involved digitizing some vintage sheet music. Due to its age, the music had to be kept in a special binder and couldn’t be put on a scanner. I thought a bit on how to get the best images and ended up producing a step-by-step YouTube video. This solved his problem nicely.

For the curious, here are the pictures I captured from the camera. First is the unedited “direct from camera” shot.

And here is the image after some PP (rotate, crop, convert to B&W, adjust bright/contrast, sharpen). Actually this is too much sharpening… but then this was just a quick test to see how well things could clean up with a little work. More serious efforts would involve more serious TLC.

Contact Info

Greg Kennedy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:55:01 +0000

Greg Kennedy Photography

15 Woodbridge Drive

Conway, AR 72034

phone: 501-514-2353

email: kennedy.greg@gmail.com

Trees in Fog

Greg Kennedy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:55:11 +0000

Laurel Park, Conway. Taken on a foggy January morning in early 2010.

Turtle

Greg Kennedy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:20:05 +0000

Taken a while back.