Tip 4: Choose The Perspective Position the camera so that you are photographing your object from eye level or slightly below eye level. A straight on or profile perspective will usually reveal the purity of unique shapes, thereby creating the most elegant point of view. I usually avoid 3/4 views or angling the camera in any direction. Tip 5: Dumpster-Diving For Subjects Occasionally I will borrow or rent objects that I admire, photograph them, and return them when I’m finished. My best subjects are often found objects, such as a burnt log I retrieved from my fireplace. Another interesting subject was some steel mesh that I found inside an industrial dumpster. Tip 6: Photoshop\Finale To complete the image, feather the reflection at the bottom of your shot in Photoshop. Select 2/3 of the reflection with a selection tool, apply 30 percent feather and use the delete key to remove the unwanted reflection. The result is a soft edge fading into the white background. Output your final image with a desktop printer on textured watercolor paper. No Polaroid Back? It’s the digital age, right? Try using a digital camera tethered to your computer monitor while making several test exposures. This is a fast and effective way to judge the effectiveness of your lighting and composition. A long-time contributor to Photographic, Jody Dole is a highly energetic individual who shoots images for use in commercial ad campaigns in his studios in New York and Chester, Connecticut.