Art and Craft Photography: How to Photograph Your Own Work. Pottery, Sculpture, Jewelery, Glass, Paintings

This book tells you how to photograph your own work. “Art and craft photography” by Brian Griffiths is a “must have for any serious 3D and 2D professional artist. This book shows you how, in easily understandable language, to take amazingly professional images of your work; pottery, sculpture, jewellery, glass and paintings, you can produce studio quality pictures at home with no special equipment, just an ordinary digital camera and lamps from around the house. Suitable for complete beginners. Top quality images are essential to sell, promote, and publicise your work, but employing a photographer is costly and time consuming. Learning how to do it yourself is surprisingly simple and easy. Brian is a professional photographer and runs many courses on photography for complete beginners to more advanced classes. In this book you will be guided through the basics from a to z: ; including choosing equipment, the best camera to use, camera settings, how to get the best out of your camera, exposure – how to get great shots every time, the studio set up, how to use ordinary lamps from around the house to light your work and take the photo, basic editing using Photoshop and how to use your image on the web, social media and print. “Brian’s course has been invaluable. In just a few hours I learned how to master not only the basics of my digital camera, but how to make my work look true to life. As many open exhibitions and juried competitions now use digital online submission, I needed a number of worthy photographs of my bronze sculptures that would accurately represent their colour, texture and sensibility. The tips and techniques Brian taught me made all the difference. My photo of ‘Legend’ earned it the overall Grand Prize Winner for the Art Has No Borders iArtBook publication 101 Artworks featuring the Animal Kingdom. Thank you very much Brian, your course made all the difference. ”Caro Sweet ARBS.