IT'S MONDAY ALREADY???
Hmm, you think the weekend could have lasted just a wee bit longer, eh? Alas, it's Monday and the show must go on. I hope everyone had a very nice weekend (while it lasted) . I had this idea to go to the flea market to pick up some things for 'props' for my new mission to make the shop look a little more exciting. I had been wanting to do this since a few million posts ago where I wrote about the Etsy Labs suggesting how to make your wares look a little more enticing. I was looking for a few specific items: a trophy, a tea cup and some vintage glass. I came up empty. Either there is a rush on these items and they got swooped up before I arrived or I just had some dumb luck. No problem, I came back and tried my hand with what I had. Here are some of the shots, I know the quality is not the best but I was hoping to go for a 'look', at the very least create some interest in the darn things...
After pawing through the internet for 2 days, I realized a few things One, there's a cool thing on Flick'r where you imput the name/model of your camera in the search box and it'll show you photo's taken by others with your same camera. They all sucked!! Yea!! It's not just me!!!!, I am not a horrible photographer, I just need a better camera! My camera is the equivalent of Fred Flintsones car (remember he had to use his feet to start it up?) My camera is old, but not in a cool vintage way, no in a functionally obsolete way. My Fancy was going to get me one for Christmas but we got a sever e case of the 'poors' so it put a kaboosh on that idea. I really would rather wait anyway, I want to be able afford something great and not something a little better than what I have now.
Oh and if you are wondering what the heck those thick black borders are, it is a technique where you put your digital camera over the lens of a vintage camera, I have a Holga, it's basically a very old toy type camera. There's all these tutorials on the internet for making contraptions but I didn't bother reading (most of them were for nice cameras and it pissed me off). I just tried a bunch of my own crap, and realized you can pretty much put anything in front of your lens and get an interesting effect. I read this one clever mom put her daughters' light pink tights over the lens, it gave the photo a very ethereal glow and grainy texture. I don't have any tights or daughters lying around the studio so I have to put that technique on hold for right now, but get creative shoot through vellum, glass, etc. Enjoy the rest of your Monday...
