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Camera Setup:
1. Turn to Manual Mode. (For
most digital SLRs, there's a dial with an M for manual).
2. Select the
2-second timer (read your camera manual)
3. Set White Balance to
Incandescent (again, read your camera manual)
4. Set your ISO to
200
Focus and Exposure
1. Zoom in as far as possible
while still capturing the entire mini in the frame. Depress the shutter
trigger halfway to auto-focus. If you can't focus that close, unzoom a bit
or move the camera back until you can.
2. Set your F-stop to 22 - you
want to capture as much detail as possible
3. Use your light Meter
(probably built in to your camera - read the manual) to set the Shutter
speed for 0.5 or 1.0 exposure. Yes, you're overexposing, because the light
meter is reading the white background, averaging the light on the mini,
and telling you there's too much light. Don't worry about this. 0.5 or 1.0
(try both!) will give you what you want.
4. Take your picture. Remember
the 2-second timer? The shutter speed is very slow, so the slightest
jitter will blur your photo. The timer ensures that any movement of the
camera from your finger pressing the button is long ended by the time the
photo is taken.
Photoshop Post-Processing:
1.
Image-Lighting-Levels: Look at the histogram. If it ends anywhere short of
the rightmost side, move the far-right slider until it just reaches the
edge of the histogram.
2. Image-Color-Remove Color Cast: click on the
white background. (If you used a color background paper, you can try
clicking on a white spot on the mini itself, but it doesn't work as
well.)
3. Duplicate the background layer, set the duplicate layer type
to Screen, then turn down its opacity to about 20-30%.
4. Layer-Flatten
Image
5. Crop
6. If you want, at this point you can use the Magic
Wand to select the perfect white background (see, it's really the best
thing to use!), delete it, and replace it with any background or gradient
that you want.
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