More Finished Work and Other Photos

Here's the latest finished piece.

I'm still having some trouble getting good photographs of my art work.  I've been trying to build a light tent to help deal with the glare I get when taking photos.  It certainly is helping, but I have to get a little creative with the set up.  In my small apartment trying to find room to put lighting is a bit of a problem.  I haven't found the best set up yet, but I'm working on it.  I'm using a white vinyl shower curtain liner for the light tent.  It seems to be working ok and the liners are dirt cheap.

 



Other than problems with getting good shots of my artwork the camera is great here are a few other shots I've taken with it.

                            

 

 Here's a couple of really nice shots of blue herons.

 

 I think the next one is one of my best pictures so far.

 

Comments

[Elise]

Great photos Howard! The first shows beautiful depth of field, and the last one of the heron shows that you must have fairly fast shutter speed. I'm envious now! Oh, and the photo you took of your pieces above are starting to look a lot better than previous photos of your work that you've taken so you must be doing something right.

[Howard]

Hey Elise, The last photo was taken with the ISO set to 100, F4.5, and a shutter speed of 1/80. It was on a shaddy stretch of the seawall. I probably should of used a higher ISO with this shot. That whould of given me a higher shutter speed. The photo of the lighhouse above it was ISO 100, F8, with a shutter speed of 1/500.

[Jeff]

For a light tent I have used a plain white bed sheet with very good results.