I've decided I need to make a photographic record of my rifles, handguns and shotguns. I want them to serve for insurance records and for my personal inventory stuff. Decided that my family needs to a good inventory and value assessment.
I have a pretty good point and shoot digital. The help I need is what kind of background, how to reduce glare, and basic kinds of stuff like that. I've done a good bit of photography in the past with my old N75 film camera, but want to do this digitally. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Bfly

How many guns are we talkin about?

If it's just a few, then probably indirect daylight, no flash, neutral background. I like a sheet of MDF.
But if you have a serious number of guns, then I'd set up a semi-permanent booth using diffused artificial light with a main light and a small fill in light, also some arrangement to put up different colour back grounds.
Not easy to take really nice pics of guns, but well worth the trouble to get nice results.

It's about fifty. I'm not sure if that's a lot or a few, probably depends on who you talk to.
Guess I could put together some kind of temporary booth with some extra lighting. I would assume that I would want something like indirect, full spectrum, incandescent bulbs to get true color?
Bfly

For best results, forget about flash or lights.

Find a suitable place in the shade outside.

That will give you best results.

I'll give that a try when the weather finally breaks. The snow is gone, now all it does is rain. This, too, will pass.
Thanks
Bfly

For insurance a few quick snaps are fine. But if you start getting a bit artistic, you can easily spend an hour or two getting a nice pic of a gun.
With that many to do I'd defiantly get some indoor space sorted.

I take heaps of photos of Old English guns and have found this works well.

Take the photos outside but Wait for a dry, bright but CLOUDY day 0 you know, the days when you have a lot of cloud cover but the sun shines through it, providing plenty of diffused light.

I am not a fan of White backgrounds - too much glare. I use a dark blue bed sheet - red can also be used.

Use a tripod, set a gun up then it is just a case of swapping guns around.

Hope that helps.