Well...I keep having problems with the quality of the pics of my turned pens. Most of them are cherry, maple, walnut, oak and such but others are turned from acrylic.

My question is: How do you take pics of your pens to where the colors and grain show up in the pics? Is it a lighting issue? The dummy behind the camera or what? I would like some honest suggestions to this as I hate making nice pens while ending up with pics of pens that looks like they all are the same pen...no figure, no real color to speak of.