At long last, I am set up, and it’s ready to go whenever I am. So much intention and so many hours of work went into making my photo setup happen; I’m a little relieved. The white sweep is a marked difference from my prior black; very clean, less severe, the addition of visible shadows, gradiated background - more to work with compositionally. As a start on my first day of shooting, here are a pair of favorite pieces, and several from September’s wood+salt firing.
Two bent tumblers. Handbuilt of stoneware FCSI with Tile6 slip and incised drawing. Woo blu glaze. Soda fired in light reduction to c.10. Each 6.5″h, 3.5″w, 3″l.
Box with scotch cups. Handbuilt of stoneware FCSI with Tile6 slip. Copper glaze. Wood+salt fired to ~c.11. 3″h, 2.5″w, 5″l.
Box with scotch cups. Handbuilt of stoneware FCSI. Copper glaze. Wood+salt fired to ~c.11. 2.5″h, 2.5″w, 6.5″l.
Bag wall house. Handbuilt of #119 stoneware. Ash and salt from atmospheric process. Wood+salt fired to ~c.11. 6″h, 4″w, 13″l.
Vessel. Handbuilt of grolleg porcelain. Oxidized copper blush, copper glaze. Wood+salt fired to ~c.11. 13″h, 7″w at widest.
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Nice pictures, Julie. I’d recommend hanging a white sheet/cheesecloth/softbox over the light in the back to soften the shadows in the front - or eliminate the back light altogether. Maybe try the same trick on some of the side lights, to soften the shadows a little… some of them are rather harsh.
You can adjust the size of your softbox to adjust the sharpness of the shadows - as it stands, the shadows are pretty harsh.
I don’t know the brightness of your light to the left in the above picture, but if it’s weaker than the back/right-side lights, I’d probably switch so the bright lights were in front, with the weaker light in the back, to provide a little of the rim lighting. This would also reduce the forward-casting shadow a little.
At some point you might want to start playing with the highlights section of lighting101/102.
Anyway, you wanted comments on your lighting, and here it is.
- d.
Comment by dominic 01.08.08 @ 3:41 pm