Photographing a reflective sign

I'm an occasional visitor to this corner of PH; following Mrs Ted's adventures, wildlife pics, photo comps and some very talented people (I'm not one of those).

I had a sign made last year, printed on clear acrylic, to 'celebrate' the company becoming employee owned (in 2019 - took me a while!) with the things a few customers said.

By chance I video-called someone this week who had the sign in the background and it looked great, I'll probably re-position myself similarly when I'm in the office and have video meetings and the such. But it made me think back to my failed attempt at capturing a nice photo of it when it was installed. It's an old building with a low, pitched roof starting just above the sign with skylights and LED strip lights.

I'm curiously really - it's nothing important. I tried different angles, lights on and off. Someone said if you take a photo of a mirror you can take it outside and have it on the ground with the sky as the reflection. The sign is 1.8x1.2m and fitted to the wall. It would come off I'm sure, but it's not important enough for that.



Any tips on how I 'should' be taking a photo. On a phone, with zero budget and little patience