On taking shawl pictures

[alias]

I've knit a few shawls from the 'Victorian Lace Today' book (which I love) - but I have a problem.








I can't seem to take photos of them which show off both the patterns and the colours in the yarn as well as they deserve. Any suggestions for taking better pictures?

Comments

[wrongera]

Placing the shawl on a contrasting background tends to help with that. If your shawl's light-coloured, place it over something dark, and that'll help the pattern show up nice and clear in pictures, especially ones where there's already good lighting. If you're just aiming to show off the pattern definition and not the whole shawl that way, it's much easier to do a close-up shot this way too, so you can work with just a small sample of what you knit.

At least, those are things that I try to do in such situations.

[alias]

I'll try those, thank you.