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Photographing Glass - What is the best background to show it to his advantage?

I'll be photographing works of medieval art glass for an online catalog. This stuff is great, and I really want to highlight. Your help please. Thank you

It is a question important and a point of argument - Some people think that the glass should be displayed with a bottom drain with enhanced features with lighting while others want the color and highlights that touch the glass. This page shows http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/photogl.htm a wonderful platform to Corning Museum of Glass and my copy of little use sanded Plexiglas, allowing light from below. This works best with clear glass that must be on View for information rather than black background that was used to photograph clear glass as Steuben [like this] http://www.rafa.com/graphics/j006steuben.jpg even if not on their site http://steuben.com//acb/ss.cfm?section=2&m2&group=5 If your glass has many medieval enamel color, as I expected to, and then photographing it on a glass shelf with adjustable lighting and around a neutral background far enough to be blurred by the depth of field seems a good idea. I much prefer photography glass far enough backward to reconcile points of view a person would, telephotoing to fill the frame rather than to close (except for entering information for the boxes) so that the party the nearest part of blocks portions of the rest.

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