Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Another Cherry Bowl
Gil
>I setup a little photo booth in the basement. I'm looking for advice as to the best angle to take a photo from. This is a new piece of cherry which I turned. It's about 3" tall and 10" wide at the top. The bowl is mostly sapwood and has some interesting curl along the far wall.
Critiques on the piece and the photograph technique are extremely welcomed and incouraged.
Thanks,
Gil
Re: Another Cherry Bowl
J L
>I don't know about anyone else, but I would like to see more of your grain pattern on the inside for this one. Your other one is very nice and you can see the grain swirls - very nice piece.
Re: Another Cherry Bowl
john Lucas
>Gil
Over all the photo looks pretty good. I would try to do away with the wrinkled paper background. Generally most artwork looks better with a smooth background. White poster board works pretty well.
As far as angle that is for you to decide. If the inside of the bowl has the most intersting grain then higher is better. If the shape is really important and the inside is uninteresting then lower will show off the shape. This is a generalization. If you are shooting photos for a juried show the point of view should be similar for all the pieces.
I like the shape of this bowl.
Re: Another Cherry Bowl
Gil
>John,
I suppose I should get out the iron and iron the bedsheet that I have hanging up LOL..
-Gil
Re: Another Cherry Bowl
Jim Pugh, Ohio
>Gil, another thing that will help your photos is for it to be sharp from front to back. You can do this two ways, go into the camera controls and reduce the lens opening to f8 or smaller (meaning towards f11). This will most likely cause the exposure time to be longer than you can hand hold so a tripod will also be needed.
Another way is to back the camera away several feet and either use the optical zoom to get the image size you want or to do that later with a photo program. Try it and see if both the front and back edges of your bowl come into focus.
