Today I am off to not only have dinner with friends but to get a photography "lesson" from William James Warren an amazing professional photographer. William, in my opinion has been a witness to many historical events and his pictures are well worth a good long look.
How did I meet William? I have been fortunate to have met him and become a friend through another recent friend (recent being 2 years) Ms. Lisa T, the awesome DBA who made me not hate working in Oracle. Note: I still don't love Oracle but we have come to an understanding; a mutual appreciation that we can both live with. After having dinner together several times over the past year, we connected via Facebook and started to trade puns and quips.
Recently having dinner and run away conversation which went late into the night, I asked about my photography as it relates to my metal work. William commented how he "liked" my in-process picture and how they had a naivety to them. Well of course they do; they are taken on the fly while I am working and to be accurate, they are taken on my desk, on the fly with no composition; no fancy lighting or other setup. It is just there on my wood Ikea desk with the computer keyboard or mouse in the background or on my workbench with all the tools and other detritus of the craft. The real issue is the "good" photographs I attempt to take of the finished pieces. These, I know I need help with so the proposal was made by me that we have dinner and I buy and in trade I get some pointers on how to take better pictures. Today is that day.
I have in preparation put into the car my camera, mini tripod,lights, and tent in addition to some of my cuffs and mineral specimens. I depart at 2:00 pm.
Here are two pictures - one of my messy bench and the other is from another metalsmith/jeweler (taken from his FB post without his permission). I think you can see I have a long way to go to be "messy".
How did I meet William? I have been fortunate to have met him and become a friend through another recent friend (recent being 2 years) Ms. Lisa T, the awesome DBA who made me not hate working in Oracle. Note: I still don't love Oracle but we have come to an understanding; a mutual appreciation that we can both live with. After having dinner together several times over the past year, we connected via Facebook and started to trade puns and quips.
Recently having dinner and run away conversation which went late into the night, I asked about my photography as it relates to my metal work. William commented how he "liked" my in-process picture and how they had a naivety to them. Well of course they do; they are taken on the fly while I am working and to be accurate, they are taken on my desk, on the fly with no composition; no fancy lighting or other setup. It is just there on my wood Ikea desk with the computer keyboard or mouse in the background or on my workbench with all the tools and other detritus of the craft. The real issue is the "good" photographs I attempt to take of the finished pieces. These, I know I need help with so the proposal was made by me that we have dinner and I buy and in trade I get some pointers on how to take better pictures. Today is that day.
I have in preparation put into the car my camera, mini tripod,lights, and tent in addition to some of my cuffs and mineral specimens. I depart at 2:00 pm.
Here are two pictures - one of my messy bench and the other is from another metalsmith/jeweler (taken from his FB post without his permission). I think you can see I have a long way to go to be "messy".
Workbench of The Adventurous Silversmith
Workbench of a professional jeweler
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