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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 1088665" data-attributes="member: 29446">You can either use a tripod and take two photos, one of the properly exposed screen and then one of the item with the screen off and the device properly exposed then use a program like photo shop to merge the two exposures or you can use lights.The problem with an LCD screen, unless you can drastically turn down the brightness, which in turn can alter the general appearance to an unfavorable one, is that it's usally much brighter than the ambient light.What you truly need is an off camera light source that's bright enough to expose the device to the same exposure level as the screen. I used a Canon 580EX II speed light with a radio trigger to expose the device. The screen is reflective, so I had to move it off to the side so that the light would expose the device without reflecting off of the screen back the camera.So for the exposure, I put the camera in manual mode and used the right ISO, shutter speed, and aperture that would exposed the number on the LCD screen. Then I set the power on my flash once it was correctly positioned so that it would expose the device to my camera settings. From there it was fire away.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cokronk/3136148424/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3136148424_31f7b954f6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Here's a very good website to get you started with off camera lighting if you're unfamiliar with it. The tutorial is over two years old, so there are other cheaper options that are available now that weren't when it was written.<a href="http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html" target="_blank">http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html</a></blockquote>

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