What's the secret to taking good gameroom pics?

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I'm really struggleing to take good pics of my games. What is the secret? I just have a run of the mill Canon digital camera. Here's what I get...

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Perhaps the glow of awesome-ness is overtaking the camera and creating the fuzzy pictures. :)

Try stepping back farther and zooming in. Hard to take a good shot of games lit up with lights on. Try games off lights on and flash. Then games on, lights out, no flash.
 
maybe the camera is just being overwhelmed by the vector goodness?

Nice line of games man and that is coming from a guy who is not really into vectors like some of the boys on this site
 
NO FLASH

1. Tripod or at least keep it steady, that will help the camera take a better shot in the low light. Normal setting is fine on the camera.

2. Floodlights, have someone stand behind you and hold the light or set them up behind you when you take the shot. That way you will still have the dark lighting "Arcade" effect but the flood lights will show you just enough of the games to take a good shot.
 
Got some good ideas. I'll try again tomorrow with a tripod. I guess I just need to mess with the settings 'til I find the right setup.
 
I put all my games on big 4" round furniture glides. I can slide them around like they are on ice. I bought a bunch when they had the 8 packs on sale at Home Depot. To my chagrin I'm having trouble finding them for the right price and I need about 6 more sets of 4.

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Don't mean to derail, but what do you have the feet of the games sitting on?

ArcadeMaze!
 
angles its all about angles and lighting..

get up on a stool, hold the camera in the very upper corners of the room to get some good sweeping overhead shots..


Itll take time and trial+error but you will eventually get some nice shots.
 
Shell out the bucks for a DSLR and get a super wide angle lens. Something like a 10mm.

If you're using a point and shoot then a tripod is a must. If your point and shoot has any manual settings make sure you drop the ISO as low as it can go (The lower the ISO the less grain you will see in the pics). Ditch the flash.
 
It's near impossible to take a picture in a dark room without using a tripod or setting the camera down on something, the exposure ends up being a little longer and your hands can't keep the camera perfectly still for that long. Start there....then you can play with shorter/longer exposure times to get more or less light...
 
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