Now, there are exceptions, like if you have a really well-lit room, like a sun room or a room with a lot of even fluorescent lighting, that may work, but even then it’s kind of tricky.īut, typically, most of us just have a house with incandescent bulbs and light fixtures and it just doesn’t put out enough light and the light it does put out is really warm.Ĭool light being a bluish hue and warm being orange-ish. You’re just not going to have enough light. Now, on the flip side of that, I would suggest almost never taking pictures indoors.

Here’s a couple of pictures I took, showing what harsh light looks like on a gun. Harsh light will blow out your subject, make it too white, remove all the detail, you can’t see anything. That’s when most professional photographers will take pictures for weddings or architecture or whatever.Īnd the reason for that is, if you go out in the daytime, in the middle of the day, and you’ve got sub beaming down on your object, it’s what they refer to as very harsh light. Photographers refer to something as the golden hour which is the hour after sunrise or the hour before sunset, where you have nice, even light outdoors and you just take fantastic pictures. (ding) And what do I mean by good light? Well, you want a nice, even light on your object, and you don’t want it to be too bright and you don’t want it to be too dark. Number one of those, the number one most important thing, if you’re going to take a picture of your gun, or anything for that matter, you need good light. There are really more important things that lead to good looking photographs than just your camera. So, your cell phone camera is going to be just fine. Many cell phone cameras are just fine now and even surpass the quality of higher point-and-shoots from even five years ago. There’s a popular misconception that you need a really nice camera to shoot pictures of your gun and to take great pictures, but that’s really not the case.

So, it’s really important to be able to take good pictures of your firearm, especially if you’re going to be buying and selling guns. It’s going to sell, and it’s going to sell for more money. I know a lot of you guys like to take pictures of your guns to post them on galleries, to post in threads on your local gun forum or whatever, or to post to your classifieds to buy, sell guns, whatever.Īnd, interestingly, Ebay, they’ve got all these statistics on sales and the effect certain factors have on sales, and they say that your item is much more likely to sell if there are good pictures of it. James again for TFB.TV, and on this episode of TFB.TV, I’m going to teach you how to shoot your gun. You don’t need a fancy camera with all those megapixels to take great photos, just get some good light, properly direct it to your camera, compose an interesting shot, get your shot in focus, and fire away. In this episode of TFBTV, James discusses some beginner tips for photographing your guns for posting on the internet (or hanging over the mantle?).

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