- 1). Place your headband or headbands inside a light tent, which is a small, partly opaque box made of white fabric. The light tent will diffuse incoming light, reducing the effect of shadows and highlights on your headband. This will produce a more evenly lit photograph.
- 2). Put your light tent near an open window to maximize the amount of natural sunlight you can use to illuminate the headband you want to photograph.
- 3). Arrange external lights such as flash units, work lights or table lamps around your light tent to increase the amount of illumination.
- 4). Mount your camera on a tripod to stabilize your shots. A tripod will reduce camera shake so that your photographs are free from motion blur.
- 5). Mount a macro lens--a lens designed to focus on close objects--on your camera so that you can best capture the fine details of the headband. If you do not have a macro lens, a telephoto lens--one with a long focal length such as 100mm--will work as well.
- 6). Fill the frame with your headband, making sure that no edges are cut off. The headband should fill the camera's viewfinder without any part of the headband going unseen.
- 7). Capture the headband from a variety of angles until you find one that you like. Shooting from 45 degrees above your headband will maximize the view of the headband, but shooting from eye level will also produce interesting views.
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