Copyright

Elizabeth Hunter

Published On

2018-04-16

Page Range

pp. 93-112

Print Length

19 pages

3. Image standards

  • Elizabeth Hunter (author)
Chapter of: Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations (pp. 93–112)

This chapter builds on the previous chapter, and provides technical aspects of photography for digitisation purposes, including what background colours to use when taking photographs of items for digitisation and various EAP standards for digital material. The second major section serves as a handy reference guide as to what makes a picture good or bad, and features numerous examples illustrating common problems and solutions to these problems.

Contributors

Elizabeth Hunter

(author)

Elizabeth Hunter joined the British Library Photographic Studio in 1988, which at the time was based at the British Museum and involved studio and location photography as well as black-and-white film processing. When the British Library moved to its current location in 1998, Elizabeth used the Library's first DSLR camera to photograph the Queen officially open the new building. Elizabeth keeps up to date with the latest developments and is currently working on 360VR and 3D photography.