Annoying glare, shot using an old Pop Art handbag for background
The humble photograph, probably the internet’s best friend. Online we see fabulous photos, scandalous photos and incredible photos. We know that these photographs have been carefully chosen from many other rejected shots. But what about the ones we never see. We seldom lay eyes on the failure fotos, allowing us to imagine that the viage before us was simply snapped and then magically appeared on a blog or website or online shop. How wrong we are.
I spent literally hours reshooting Swarovski Potion Necklaces for my Etsy shop. I’ve never been happy with the necklaces photos I had in my shop. They failed to capture the sparkling crystals, the subtle colours and the sparkliness within. And its all because of my enemy – GLARE. I found myself bending into yoga-like contortions to get one shot that didn’t have a big white band of glare reflecting on the little potion bottles. I read every hint on Etsy’s tips to take great photos. I changed setting on my Pentax I-10 camera, I had paper tacked to the window, I held my camera in one hand whilst holding a DIY glare guard in a futile attempt to rid the potion bottles of that infernal glare. Nothing seemed to be working. I put the camera away and realising that I’d wasted a good three hours on futile photography attempts, I decided to tweet my anger with visual proof. I leave the necklace where it is, snap a shot with my iPhone and . . . it was the best photo I had taken all day.
Glare, shadows, frusration building
Through tears of joy, I reshot the rest of the necklaces in less that 2 hours. What a relief. Although it did feel a little strange taking somewhat important photographs with a cell phone but if you could’ve seen what I went through over the past two fruitless days you would understand. And then, brilliant idea – BLOG IT. Above I show you the rejected photos. They stand as a testament to the glaring lack of focus I’ve had. I think that line ties in rather nicely. Below are the final iphone-a-riffic photos:
Fire Red Swarovski Potion Necklace by Glamour Twinkles - Etsy-worthy photo
Blue Swarovski Potion Necklace by Glamour Twinkles - an Etsy worthy shot
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