Let’s talk about product photography! There are a billion articles out there on how to take great photos in general, great photos for products, great photos specifically for jewelry or ceramics or people… but this article is going to be about how I do it, and my journey in learning.
Y’all know I’ve been taking a photo a day for almost eleven years now. What, what? Even I didn’t realize it was that long, but when I went to go look, sure enough, I started in 2003. A lot of pre-2009 was lost in the Great Blog Disaster of 2009 …
Tuesday I woke up to this! More snow had started to fall during the night; thick, fat flakes that piled and piled on top of each other. I sat and had breakfast with my nose pressed to the window, watching snow fall lightly. After a bit, it let up, and …
This morning the dogs were going a little crazy just outside the back door. I got up super-early this morning, unable to sleep, so it was still pretty dusky out – although I did have the back porch light on. What I found gave me the opportunity to test out …
I don’t have a lot of cemetery experience, so one thing that we saw a lot that both surprised me and made me a little sad*, were overgrown headstones. You can barely see, but directly in back of the middle marker, in the middle of that thicket, is the headstone …
I forget where I was just talking to someone about light boxes. TheOtherBonnie, maybe? Yes! Oh. Huh. I could have sworn I commented on that post. Whoops! Hey, Bonnie, here’s a picture of my light box — This is the second one I’ve built. My first one looked more like …
Foggy brain in morning, coffee pot take warning.
OK; so, the day I took this, I was also wrapping Christmas presents and madly painting and glazing the last of what I wanted to get fired in the kiln before Christmas, and who needs a picture of that, right?! And I felt I’d done enough cute cats-and-dogs-snuggling-together pictures in …
Here’s something that I lose an hour or so a day to, now…. the camera app I use on my phone has recently had an update, and in addition to all sorts of filters we now have the ability to adjust frame color. So here’s one where I was playing …
Remember about a month ago when Verizon made me want to spit nails? Well, according to my contract I was eligible for an upgrade on the 17th (of September). So last Thursday I thought I’d go into the Verizon store to look around, because in my mind it made more …
Get it? The cat’s name is Serenity? And it’s a serene scene? GET IT?
A few photos from Friday night, taken with my camera (a Canon PowerShot SX130 IS) balanced on various things in the front yard for added stability.
Leaving aside the whole Facebook-buying-Instagram for enough money to take a chunk out of the national debt, what I’m more focused on is Instagram finally being available for Android phones. When I got my phone a little over a year ago, I was disappointed that Instagram wasn’t available. I saw some of …
The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here.
The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here… even when I forget to pick a favorite on Friday.
Shake Rag has a beautiful tangle of old Live Oaks in front, and I don’t think I could ever get tired of photographing them. The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here.
Ice Cream Party!!!
Cleaning out some saved sites, so I apologize if any of these are ones you’ve seen before! I love abandoned places. Old falling-down houses, bricked-off subway stations, hotels that were never finished, power plants left to rot, empty hospitals and institutions. There’s just something so lonely, so stark, such a sense of …
My apologies if any of these are repeats — I’m cleaning out my starred items! Most of you know that I’m fascinated with the website My Parents Were Awesome; sometimes I just like the look of the person, sometimes I love that the photo is so indicative of a time, sometimes I …
Whether I’m watching her to make sure she doesn’t nom the yarn… or she’s watching me to see if I’ll go away so she can nom the yarn, I’m not sure. But still. The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here.
Sometimes my friends have rough days. Sometimes they need to drop everything and drive halfway across the country to take care of people they love, because that’s just what you do. Sometimes I wish I could do more for them. The rest of my 2011 daily photos can be viewed here.
The rest of my 2011 photos can be viewed here.
The rest of my 2011 photos can be viewed here.
I just can’t seem to stop playing around with my new camera. Here are a bunch of different settings, all photographing the same thing. 1. Tiltshift, 2. Fish-eye, 3. Color swap, 4. Color swap, 5. Color accent, 6. Color accent, 7. Posterize, 8. Vivid, 9. Foliage
