At 9:52 AM -0700 8/23/06, Mark Shofron wrote:

Marilyn:

I would photograph the picture >from above with the
picture flat on the ground- no flash. Do this outside
in the mid morning or later in the aft

Yes - I wish I had thought of taking them outside when I was allowed
to photograph -- but only through the glass -- two color portraits
of my great-grandparents in the home of a second cousin I had never
met before! I took a lot of pictures >from a great many angles, but
the flash showed up on most of them. I had to settle for the ones in
which the flash had ruined only their clothing and not their faces!

Judith Romney Wegner