On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 5:49 PM Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > > Quick question: > I’d like to develop skills used to photograph the textile arts—which can > often include fabrics with beads and metals and sequins etc. > So, has anyone done this kind of work? Any recommendations? Tips? Resources? > > Also, any tips for ways and stands for hanging the art so it can be > photographed? > > I do have a photography background stand for background papers etc. Has > anyone used this stand to photograph art? > > Maybe two stands? One to hold the rolled background paper, then another > stand to hang the art from? Something like that? What do you think?
Christine, I have photographed painted art, but small enough works that I could lay them on the floor and light and shoot down on them. I do something like what you propose for portraits when I suspend custom painted canvas fabric backdrops from a cross-bar. Usually I hang the canvas by securing the short edge with many 4" plastic clamps to the cross-arm (an IKEA curtain rod) which is then hoisted up into the air with a C-stand boom arm. I use a Superclamp on the end of the boom arm to hold the curtain rod. This means I need to crop out the highest portion of the canvas though to avoid seeing the clamps. That may not suit your purpose, of course. But you could clone them out in Photoshop. By the way, when you light your fabric I suggest that you use two sources: one large soft light from behind the camera position for an even overall fill; and the second source being a hard light raking across the surface at a shallow angle in order to pick up the texture in the fabric. Also to make the beads and metal bits shinier and visible. You would need to play with the ratio of brightness of the two sources to control how much texture and contrast you capture. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
