If you want to enter your work into quilt exhibitions or fiber art shows, you have to have a set of good slides. It’s probably best to hire a professional photographer to make your slides, but this can be a problem if you push everything to the last minute, like I often do. I’ll be sending slides in for the Fiber Art International exhibition put on by the FiberArt Guild of Pittsburgh. If the work isn’t accepted into that show, I will have time to enter it into a quilt show.
So today was photography day. Mid-morning is a good time for me to photograph stuff against the old dairy barn. The sun is at an angle that produces fewer shadows, yet still gives bright, white light to photograph by. It’s not the best setup ever, but it will do for the moment.
Here is my makeshift photo studio: the camera to the left, and the wall hanging on the barn. Professional slides have neutral backgrounds or no background at all. I crop out everything but the wall hanging, using silver slide tape. Luckily the sides of this piece are more-or-less straight.
Someday, someday, when our new house is finished, I will have a big blank wall, where I will hang a mottled gray or cream canvas backdrop, and arrange studio lights to illuminate my work for photography. But until then, the morning sun will have to suffice!