mwar15
Omono
I love your IG photos, I need to make something.
Diving into pottery
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TinyArt
Chumono
Re: photos
Here's a cheap-for-now "seamless paper" effect
set up with a sheet of dollar store posterboard (now slightly spoiled by terra cotta dust) in indirect outdoor light -- just a bench & a wall for support.
Here's a cheap-for-now "seamless paper" effect
set up with a sheet of dollar store posterboard (now slightly spoiled by terra cotta dust) in indirect outdoor light -- just a bench & a wall for support.
Katie0317
Chumono
If you use a white background and go outdoors you'll be using natural light which is as good as it gets. The white will reflect light back onto the subject rather than absorb light. Shoot early in the day....No later than 10 a.m and late in the evening about 7 p.m. Make sure the sun is behind you.
If you're shooting when the sun is overhead in mid-day you'll have long shadows. You want the light to be pointed at the subject, in this case the pot. (That's why you want the sun to be low.) Using natural light will make the colors as true to life as humanely possible.
If you're shooting when the sun is overhead in mid-day you'll have long shadows. You want the light to be pointed at the subject, in this case the pot. (That's why you want the sun to be low.) Using natural light will make the colors as true to life as humanely possible.
TinyArt
Chumono
The reason I get away with the black paper, then, is the white wall to my right, and the white ceiling of the porch... So good to know!
Katie0317
Chumono
Try it with all white TinyArt, you'll get the most accurate rendition of your subject using all white. With the rest of the white you have It will bounce the light around and that's what you see when you see people outdoors shooting and they have someone holding a giant white circle. It's to bounce more light where the shooter wants it.
Your colors will be more saturated and more true to the colors of what you're shooting. I can see where you're getting a few highlights from the light coming from the side but if you shoot the exact same scene using white and compare it may surprise you.
With the still life you're shooting it's hard for the viewer to know the precise coloring of the subject but for a potter he wants the viewer to see it as true to life as possible.
You can see the black background start to fade out? If you were doing that for a magazine you'd want that to be jet black. That's why it would need to be lit. It gets complicated. You did a good job for somebody working from home. Keep at it but try it with white and you'll see a big difference. If these were plants they would get very grey and you'd say, 'What happened!' I did it the same way as I did the watering can.
Your colors will be more saturated and more true to the colors of what you're shooting. I can see where you're getting a few highlights from the light coming from the side but if you shoot the exact same scene using white and compare it may surprise you.
With the still life you're shooting it's hard for the viewer to know the precise coloring of the subject but for a potter he wants the viewer to see it as true to life as possible.
You can see the black background start to fade out? If you were doing that for a magazine you'd want that to be jet black. That's why it would need to be lit. It gets complicated. You did a good job for somebody working from home. Keep at it but try it with white and you'll see a big difference. If these were plants they would get very grey and you'd say, 'What happened!' I did it the same way as I did the watering can.
TinyArt
Chumono
I've been that person!
Will do! You've got me curious to set the same plants up twice & see the difference -- and I bet you'll reform me!
(okay, back to the previously scheduled thread -- with better pictures, a la Katie!)
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I been looking into those large photo backdrops, they are less expensive than I once thought.
Sorce
Sorce
Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
I use black felt as a background. It seems to work really well for me.
Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
I couldnt post this with my previous post because I was on my phone but this picture was taken with the aforementioned black felt as a back ground, outside in the mid to late afternoon with a cell phone.
Katie0317
Chumono
Felt will absorb light rather then reflect black back onto your tree so it's a much better choice than black paper.
mwar15
Omono
Have a request from a local member for some worm pots
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Very nice!
mwar15
Omono
Thanks, I’m satisfied for the first time
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
You should be, it's really good!
mwar15
Omono
Pitoon
Imperial Masterpiece
Very nice! That glaze on the rounded rectangle looks nice. I think my next batch will include smaller hand-built pieces. That blue wide lipped makes want to try to build one.
mwar15
Omono
You should. The glaze dripped a little so I have some grinding to do to have it sit level but I think a nice azalea will pair well
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
That glaze speaks to me as well
and if anyone should apply their skills to hand building some pots its you.
mwar15
Omono
That glaze is a new one they are working with. Since I used it they tweaked the recipe but it will end up being a brown reddish black glaze. I’m excited about it.
mwar15
Omono
12x16
The red one is a new glaze on top
And yes, I wear wool socks with rainbows
The red one is a new glaze on top
And yes, I wear wool socks with rainbows
