The article describes how fossils can be photographed with a new digital technique, enhancing contrast in order to bring out subtle details. Fifty pictures are taken with light coming from different angles, and a computer calculates how the intensity of each point in a combined image depends on light angle. From this information, an image can be re-created with different lighting and optical surface properties, such as increased shininess. In addition, the technique allows electronic publication of images where light and surface properties can be manipulated by the reader. This can be very useful because different features are often enhanced under different lighting conditions. The technique has been tried on various kinds of fossils. It performs very well for some types of fossil preservation although in some cases traditional photography produces equally good results. The possibility for the reader to change the lighting in electronically published pictures is always a benefit, however.