How To Prepare A Photograph For A Quodlibet:
- IT'S SMALLER THAN YOU THINK!
- Measure out or cut something to 4 x 5 inches
- Tape, pin, clip, glue, use a ribbon or rubberband, to hold objects to surface
- Layout objects, but make sure none of them or more than an inch deep
- Place the assemblage in indirect light, with the up direction of the layout nearest the light-source, resulting in shadows that are below the objects in the layout
- Take as high resolution image as your camera/phone will allow
- Don't use a flash!
- Send me your photos by email for approval! I will also perfect them and size them correctly for you. Be sure and include something in the image that I can measure it's size (even just an inch mark on a piece of paper).
Get The Right Angle
This is the wrong angle. The back plane is not parallel to the back plane of the camera.
This is close enough to the correct angle. The back plane is parallel to the back plane of the camera.
When the image is prefected in Photoshop, anything that is 1 inch wide will be printed as 1 inch wide, like the ruler in this image. If this image were printed out on a printer, you could lay a ruler on the image and the marks would line up. That is why I want you to put something in your image that can be measured (preferably a ruler).
A good trick to get things at the right size
Put some tape down on the surface to be photgraphed and measure it out to 4 inches by 5 inches (and you can go either Landscape - 5 wide x 4 high - or Portrait - 4 wide x 5 high)