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Photographing Outdoors: The best lighting is bright sunlight. As before, mount your scrapbook pages on to a board. Lay the board flat on your verandah or stoop. The next step is a bit tricky. Either stand directly above your page to take your photo or mount on an adjustable camera stand directly above your page. The trick is to get your camera mounted perfectly perpendicular to the page. With handheld cameras you won’t get that perfect 1:1 perpendicular shot. What I use is a bench flexible inspection lamp stand, found in the attic, with the top part discarded and having a clamp in it’s place to hold my camera. If you can afford it, get yourself an adjustable camera stand. With a bit of innovation you can mount fluorescent lighting above your camera fixture to double up for indoors shooting of your scrapbook pages as well.

Taking the photo: Turn off your flash. Any direct, bright lights will cause glare from the photographs and embellishments on your scrapbook pages. Also, be careful that lamps and overhead lights in the room are not showing glare on your pages. When shooting a page, line up the page squarely in your view finder. Make sure that you do not take the photo at an angle. Leave some room around the edges for cropping later on. You don't want to take the shot only to realize when you start working with it that you had cut off a small amount on one edge of the page. You can always crop this background later using your photo editing software.

The Finished Layout: Once cropped, your photos now looks like the pictures taken of your scrapbook pages. With a little practice, you will find that you almost never need to "scan and stitch" images of your scrapbook pages ever again.

Alison McGregor – Veteran Scrapbooker and Founder of http://www.myscrapbookingsecrets.com

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