without reflecting light or having a shadow in the picture?

Ambient light (not from bulbs/direct light), shooting from a distance while optically zooming to lessen the spherical effect of the lens.

Julien

This thread discusses it a bit

What scanner for laserdiscs?

That is my thread. I tried taking a pic of a set I have to send here but light reflected off it and my shadow got in the way. Maybes I need a better camera?

The main problem I saw with that was the plastic cover, which is causing a lot of reflections and glare. If you can take that off the results should be a lot better. If you don't want to remove it, e.g. because the disc is still sealed, a polarising filter may help, they're designed to reduce reflections. I'd suggest trying that before buying a new camera, it looked like the pictures would have been OK without the plastic. Depending on the lens size a polarizer can cost from about £3 upwards. But polarizers don't always work with plastic, you may find that you get weird colour effects, so I can't give any guarantee.

Would this method be good for obtaining LD cover shots for the database? There are some titles I have that I want to add cover images to, but I don't have a large enough scanner.

Would sunlight work? Like taking a photo outside of a ld cover?

Sunlight is good if you can get even lighting and avoid casting a shadow on it while taking the picture. See the other thread linked above for some tips on adjusting perspective etc.

Though you come off with a purpose, try it

step-a: open file


step-b: adjust color/contrast(auto)


step-c: select and crop


step-d: transform skew


step-e: duplicate layer and blending change(normal to multiply)


step-f: equate width with height

wtf sh# on some rare LDs I would prefer to see a bad flash pixel picture than NOTHING
once I had a wishlist with 50% without cover that is just nonesense in my opinion