Morning all,

Well I will start with what camera I have, its a Canon dSLR 1000D, EFS 18-55 mm lens and a Canon Speedlite 550EX flash unit.

What I want to do is to take some shots of trading card folders, I am a card collector and I want to highlight some of the harder to find albums on my website but I want to avoid the bright spot I have been getting from the on-camera flash reflecting off the surface of the album. So any advice on camera / flash settings would be most helpful.

As far as composition is concerned, I had thought of just having the albums freestanding on a solid surface and using a dark felt like material as the backdrop as the albums are all bright in colour or I have a stand that I can rest the album on the only prob with that is that it tilts away from the lens.

Cheers