taking picture of a picture

[walkien]

I try to take a picture of a picture, how do I set it up to get best result?

Camera=Canon 10D
lens=28-135 mm, 50mmf 1.8, 70-200mm f4.0
Flash=420EX

[roanjohn]

Make sure its flat...........Use a tripod......... make sure you have good lighting...

OR.........if this is too cumbersome........just buy a scanner :-p

Ro1

[cmM]

what's in the picture? Another picture? :-P

Make sure you don't use direct flash, the glossy surface will reflect. Bounce/diffuse, or place it at an angle.

[Persian-Rice]

I would not use flash unless it's very well diffused.
Use a tripod, cable and lockup.

Cheers

[walkien]

thanks for all the quick reply, here's the result I got.
Camera=10D on the tripod
lens=50mm f1.8
no flash

Aperture=8.0
shutter speed= 1/6 sec
iso=100

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/HenryW/50mm.jpg

does it look ok?

[Persian-Rice]

Pretty good, try to have even lighting. Seems like your lightsource is coming from top-right.

BTW I can't help myself, but can you say "like father, like son"? All the guys have the same ears.

[Huckaback Photo]

Hi Walkien
looks quite a reasonable copy you got,now use photoshop or similar and clean it up, its quite an easy exercise to clone out the small specks & small amount of glare top right, also other marks on clothes etc.

To avoid glare or reflection off the print surface theres a simple way of lighting, set up on wall as already mentioned, but do it outside on a day with overcast grey skies and no sunlight.
if theres a need to take many images , take a piece of card draw diagonals corner to corner and several squares this helps setting up, camera needs to be in line with cetre of card, now fix photo to card, i normally manual focus, use self timer, and bracket exposures easy to take more first time than have to do it again.
Flash or other lights are usable ut you deffinately need 2 set up at 45 degrees to the photo surface,
at each side of camera , both at same power, the idea being that the 1 light cancels the other lights possible glare on a surface, check out a pro copy stand in book etc.
in the days of film my normal lens for this was a Flat Field lens , ie : an enlarger lens of 50mm or 80mm designed for this purpose in effect ( to produce an edge to edge sharp print)

Cheers
Martin