Admittedly I’m not the best picture taker. But whenever I snap a picture of a carbon part that has been cleared I get the reflexion off the carbon and the picture is a mess.
Are there any simple tricks to taking a good picture of a finished carbon part?
Thanks , Terry
Don’t use clear coat or put some nice paint on the parts. They will look much nicer! 
Carbon fiber is exceptionally hard to photograph with an automatic camera for the following reasons. Your camera can’t focus on the CF since it’s jet black, in addition to that because it’s so black your camera thinks I need to dump a full flash to light it up. When you actually take the picture all that light comes straight back into your lens and creates the mess you’re talking about.
For reflective surfaces you need to either diffuse your light using a softbox or something similar or put your flash off camera. To take pictures without the flash put a bright light source off the camera and play with the angles till you get what you want.
To trick get the autofocus to get a lock on the CF put something near the part so it can focus on that, then point the camera at the CF.
And lastly if you have manual control over your camera do all of the above yourself to get it perfect.
In NL some shops are stunting with very small photo booths. Basicly some 30cm (1ft) cubic box with white tranclucent sides. where you can place lamps behind. Also in the kit 4 pieces of fabric to create a nice background (black, white, blue, red). I bought it for 30 euro.
Although the quality is sh!t it does cheaply show the system of what you need: diffuse light from multiple sides, so you will not get shadows, and enough light so you do not need flash.
Another option, also cheaply marketed over here, is a solution with 2 slave flashes, which flash when the master flash (your camera) goes of. These flashes are placed in reflective umbrellas or soft boxes. From 200 euro upwards.
Even cheaper versions - Cardboard box from trash and a 10 piece white poster pack from an office supply store. They usually go for 5 bucks. Tape the cardboard on the inside and there’s your softbox.
Or use a bathub. I used mine to get closeups of my composite fracture surfaces. Can’t find the picture at the moment but I’ll put them up as soon as I do!
ok, thanks for the replies. Ill see what I can do.
Terry