Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild on thu 20 dec 01
It's tough to find a good photographer for pottery. In the San
Jose area, I use Lynn Hunton (if anyone wants his contact info,
e-mail me offline).
Lynn is semi-retired, but he was a commercial product
photographer. That means he took pictures of products
for use in ads. He has a great studio in his home, and knows
how to light and photograph three-dimensional objects
so they look really good. So if anyone is looking for a
photographer, you might consider someone like Lynn, who
specializes in product photography.
>
>It's a rare photographer, even among professionals, who
>can look at a 3-D piece, and see it as the 2-D piece it
>will become when photographed, while still showing it as
>a dimensional object. I've worked with a few photographers
>in this league, and they can see the work with a fresh
>and knowledgeable eye that makes for wonderful pictures
>that show the work in ways even the artist never saw.
>
>It's frustrating to know that many times more people
>will see pictures of my work than will ever see the work
>itself, and will know the work only as a two-dimensional
>image. A good photographer has the skill to recreate
>the object as a two-dimensional composition with merit
>of its own as a picture. It's a different thing, when
>an object becomes a picture, but one hopes that at least
>it can be a good picture!
>
> -Snail
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Bob Nicholson
Webmaster, Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild
http://www.ovcag.org/
Dan Dermer on sat 22 dec 01
I have also used Lynn Hunton. He took slides of my recent work, which I'm
hoping to use for an MFA grad school app portfolio. Lynn graciously allowed
me to use my digital camera at the same time he was shooting -- he even
provided a tripod for me! If you want to see samples of his lighting with
functional pottery (mine), check out the "picture gallery" on my site:
http://www.geocities.com/dbdermer (all the pictures are clickable to see a
larger image)
Lastly, I had Lynn take 35mm pictures with a second camera while doing the
slides. I had prints developed at Walgreens and opted for the Kodak CD plus
prints. The CD gives you easy-to-use digital images if you do not have a
digital camera. However, I found that the digital pictures I had taken
during the shoot had better contrast/resolution than the ones I got back
from Kodak developing.
Frappy Shmolidays-
Dan
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Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:48 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: photographers (was slides from digital)
It's tough to find a good photographer for pottery. In the San
Jose area, I use Lynn Hunton (if anyone wants his contact info,
e-mail me offline).
Lynn is semi-retired, but he was a commercial product
photographer. That means he took pictures of products
for use in ads. He has a great studio in his home, and knows
how to light and photograph three-dimensional objects
so they look really good. So if anyone is looking for a
photographer, you might consider someone like Lynn, who
specializes in product photography.
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Bob Nicholson
Webmaster, Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild
http://www.ovcag.org/
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