ClayCoyote@aol.com on wed 26 mar 97
Jerry/Darlene Yarnetsky
You asked about booth slides....Steve Meltzer, book author and pro photog,
gave the advice that, even if juries ask for full booth slide, take a semi
close-up, say one side of the booth, so they can see the display, but also
identify the contents. He added that if possible, include a piece or two
that are in teh other submitted slides. His point was that a full booth shot
will NEVER look good, but the closeup can. Also, shoot on a cloudy day so
there are no hard shadows (or a sunny day when a cloud cover the sun or when
the booth is in shade).
Hope this helps.
Tom Wirt
Clay Coyote Pottery
Claycoyote@aol.com
Suzanne Storer on mon 1 dec 97
Carolyn Palmer wrote:
>I could write another whole message on just the booth slide. Maybe I will
>later.
Please do, Carolyn. I'm sure more people than just myself would appreciate it.
Suzanne Storer
vince pitelka on thu 21 mar 02
> You want your booth slide to LOOK like your booth does to to someone
looking at it at a show. This cannot be accomplished by taking a slide of
your fully stocked booth at a show.
Kathi -
Huh? On the contrary, the ONLY way you can get your booth slide to truly
look like your booth is to shoot the slide at a show. In fact, I think it
is a little deceptive to do otherwise.
You said:
"> The majority of the booth slides I reviewed were too dark. People
standing in the booth were obscuring the view. And the booth looked
cluttered. This is not how you want to present your work to the jury."
That is all the fault of the photographer. There is ALWAYS a time during a
show when you can get a good shot of your booth, no matter how busy you are,
and that is the only way to get a great booth shot that will not look
artificial and contrived.
Best wishes -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Crafts
Tennessee Technological University
1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville TN 37166
Home - vpitelka@dtccom.net
615/597-5376
Work - wpitelka@tntech.edu
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http://www.craftcenter.tntech.edu/
KLeSueur@AOL.COM on thu 21 mar 02
Why do I recommend that you take your booth slide at home with so few pots in it and where you can adjust the light?
The camera does not see what you see. Your eye moves, it adjusts for light, it constantly refocuses, it isolates items. The camera only sees from one view, from one light setting, and compresses items placed one in front of the other.
You can not know what your booth slide is going to look like by standing in front of your booth. You have to look through the camera. When you do this you'll find that one pot obscures the view of another. Either move that pot so that the one behind it can be seen or remove the pot.
It helps to have one person looking through the camera and the other moving or removing pots. The camera will make a booth with just one third of the pots normally in it look full. It will make a fully stocked booth look as if the booth is overstocked and cluttered.
You want your booth slide to LOOK like your booth does to to someone looking at it at a show. This cannot be accomplished by taking a slide of your fully stocked booth at a show.
The majority of the booth slides I reviewed were too dark. People standing in the booth were obscuring the view. And the booth looked cluttered. This is not how you want to present your work to the jury.
Kathi LeSueur
Nancy Guido on fri 22 mar 02
There was an article I read some time ago, may have been in Crafts Report or
Sunshine Artist, but it said that some jurors look at the booth slide first
and you can be disqualified right then and there. Has to do with being
experienced enough to get into that particular show. I didn't particularly
agree with that.
Nancy G.
Paul Gerhold on fri 22 mar 02
Dear Vince,
After years of trying to deal with bad lighting at shows and people in the
booth and other assorted problems we bit the bullet and set up the booth in
the back yard. We put in the same variety and quantity of work we would have
at a show and then shot two rolls of slides from different angles etc
throughout the day as the light changed.
Out of seventytwo slides we got about five that looked pretty good and we
think accurately represented what the booth looks like at a show. The end
result-we have gotten into several shows that we could never crack with our
"real" booth shots which tended to be dark and not really representative of
what the booth actually looked like.
Of course none of this applies if you do shows where there are no customers
so you have plenty of time and good light to shoot.I do agree though that
artifically stocking a booth to get a good slide rather than one that is
representative of what your booth actually looks like is dishonest in the
extreme. In the best of worlds the committee should then throw you out of the
show for misrepresenting your work.
Paul
Eleanora Eden on mon 10 jun 02
I just finally read the thread on slides and want to put my 2c in for Kathy
LeSueur's knowledgeable advice. I have found out the hard way that a booth
slide has to be at least somewhat staged to be effective. The one I am
using was from an indoor spring show that I set up in a more gallery-like
way than I have ever done before or since, with wall-board walls and lots
of pedestals, just for a good photo. The only down side is that the
lighting is not good. But it seems to be doing the job. An interesting
aside is that I remember doing okay at that fair even though I had less
work out.....food for thought....
I think Kathy's suggestion that the booth be set up for that photo at home
is RIGHT ON and that is the advice I've been giving to people for a long
time. I have worried myself about the legitimacy issue and I had concluded
that if it doesn't work it is foolish to proceed as if it should.
Eleanora
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill eeden@vermontel.net
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 www.eleanoraeden.com
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