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Aug. 16th, 2020 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI took a little extra time, amidst packing and shipping, to shoot some pictures. I don't have a particularly elaborate set-up for these, because they're just going on the internet. I use a piece of white foam-core, scored and folded into an "L" shape, propped up with bricks to catch the sunlight. I added a new wrinkle this time, a piece of aluminum foil taped to another scrap, to bounce light into the inside of bowls, lighten up the heavy shadows thrown by the rim. Then I set up my digital camera on a tripod, prop up a pot, shoot, repeat. I do all the same-size pieces in series, so I only have to set the zoom once per series, and auto-focus and exposure do the rest. If I'm feeling fancy, I may spend some time in PhotoShop tweaking the color balance, and throwing in a graduated background, but these are pretty much as they came out of the camera.
(For jury photos and pictures for print reproduction, I outsource to a professional, Jon Meyers, who has the good equipment.)
Here are a couple of examples from the 40-piece table setting.
Plates are easiest, because the highlights land outside the image area for the most part; the special soup bowls she ordered, being wide and shallow, were pretty easy too. The ice cream bowls (my 1 lb. toddler bowl size) are much harder, but I shot them anyway.
The full set has been uploaded to my Flickr feed, in an album called "Randol Table Set." (That's also where to see complete sets of tile projects, and a bunch of older work.)
(For jury photos and pictures for print reproduction, I outsource to a professional, Jon Meyers, who has the good equipment.)
Here are a couple of examples from the 40-piece table setting.
Plates are easiest, because the highlights land outside the image area for the most part; the special soup bowls she ordered, being wide and shallow, were pretty easy too. The ice cream bowls (my 1 lb. toddler bowl size) are much harder, but I shot them anyway.
The full set has been uploaded to my Flickr feed, in an album called "Randol Table Set." (That's also where to see complete sets of tile projects, and a bunch of older work.)