Probably the task I dislike most is taking pictures for my shop and website. Getting the thing I’m photographing lit evenly, making sure the colors are true, finding just the right angle… My letterpress prints and collages have proved the hardest to get right, because the lighting is so important (needs to be lit evenly from top to bottom and left to right). I’ve accumulated quite a mass of gear too — lights, a tripod, white cards to reflect light, a little light box. That light box has made photographing my matchbox books a breeze, but doesn’t work well for much else.
This week I needed a photograph of my workshop. A very different challenge from product photos that show the viewer what they are buying from all angles but an interesting shot that encapsulates what I do in my shop. Another challenge was that the resulting photo had to be about 3 times wider than tall. Most of the stuff in my shop is tall, not long. I tried a lot of test shots with my phone camera, and then my husband suggested I was thinking too big and should try a close cropped photo. He helped me stage my spiral binder with all the things I use to make my planners & notebooks. Here’s the result.
