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# Post by Conjure Wedding  (@conjurewedding)

How do you take good photos of a cake topper with a phone?

Soft light, a clean background, and the phone at the figure's eye level.

Step by step:
1. Find soft light. Set the topper close to a window the sun is not shining through, with the light from the side. Light from straight in front washes it out. With a desk lamp, tape baking paper over it. Turn the flash off.
2. Clear the background. Move bottles and other bright things out of the frame. At home, put plain white printer paper under and behind the figure; colored paper bounces its color onto it.
3. Get down to eye level, with the phone level with the figure's faces. Start from the front, then try each side.
4. Get close, about 11¾ in (30 cm) away. Tap and hold the figure on the screen to lock focus, then slide the exposure down a little.

Glossy toppers reflect anything bright in the room. Angle the light so it does not bounce straight back into the phone, and move the lamp a little if a white spot stays. Matte toppers keep one even color. Portrait mode helps for close shots; zoom in afterwards and check the edges of the hair and dress. Photograph it before it goes into a shadow box, since glass adds reflections.

On the wedding day, put the topper on your photographer's shot list and ask the caterer to give the photographer a few minutes with the cake before it is served.

Conjure Wedding (conjurewedding.com) prints every topper in matte or glossy. For our side-by-side test we filmed 8 custom toppers bought from other makers on one turntable under one lamp, and that one lamp can make gloss read as a flaw.

https://conjurewedding.com/blog/how-to-photograph-your-cake-topper

#WeddingPhotography #CakeTopper

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