Pretty much the same photo of Fuad with our simple light set up....the first one is way to dark, and the second photo Fuad had me change the shutter speed.  Still not perfect, but the lights were really bright for our product shooting.

2 CLAMP LIGHTS

SOFT WHITE SPIRAL LIGHT BULBS -100 WATT

WHITE PAPER OR CLOTH -big enough to cover table and part of wall behind in one continuous piece.

2-PIECES OF CARD BOARD COVERED IN WHITE

                                CAMERA

                                 TRI-POD

                                 SUBJECT MATTER

     Since Sam, my husband bought a new camera, I inherited his old one.  So I have only used it a couple of times and I am NOT very familiar with any of the equipment. 

      Set the tri-pod up, so you are in front of the "light box", you will need to have the camera on the tri-pod so the photos are clear, because the shutter speed is so slow. 

     Don't forget the attachment for the camera to the tri-pod.  Since the equipment is my husbands I have to remember to return the piece and not keep it attached to my camera.

     To get the color of your background and subject to be correct, photographers take an image of a white card.  What they call a "WHITE BALANCE", to help the camera be able to set itself to the color recognition you need for this type of shooting.

      Looking inside your view finder while taking the "WHITE BALANCE",  you need to meter manually  down to zero, by turning your shutter until the bar on the meter says zero.  (MANUAL should be in place on your camera first before taking the photo.)

      Fuad used a plain piece of cardboard to take the photo.  In fact it was the back of one of the pieces we had covered with white paper.


      Then take a "White Photo"  We used just the plain white paper that we already had set up on the photo shoot.

     For my camera that I am using, which is a Nikon- I think a D-80...(.remember, I do ceramics and painting.... photography is pretty new, except when I have used my Kodak Easy Share)  These are the steps we took to get our WHITE BALANCE, using the Nikon camera.  These steps are good for most Nikon cameras


MENU

White Balance -Pre (press the OK button)

Pre White Balance preset >

 (press the arrow on the round button going in the > direction

USE PHOTO>

 (press arrow on the round button going in the > direction)

SELECT IMAGE

(The camera will bring up the photos you took, select the white one)

        Then turn back to AF on the side of camera. ( it had been in M for manual )

     Otherwise, you will get the first photo and not the second.  The M will be in manual, and it will not come in clear.  I took quiet a few photos this way before Fuad came and corrected the camera for me.

     Looking inside the viewer you see numbers for both the F-stop and the Shutter speed.  We changed the shutter speed to see how the light changed the photos.

     We didn't move the camera or the piece, only the setting for the Shutter Speed. 

     We choose the pitcher because it has a shiny glaze, where as the Horse Hair Firing which isn't totally glazed, nor as shiny.  Fuad simply adjusted the card board pieces to diminish the "HOT SPOTS" on the pitcher.  So that the glare did not distract the viewers eye from the art work.

Barb Lassa is a member of our Grand Ave Artists.

She takes wonderful photography.  You should check her website out.

The side is done by TEAM USA.  What a beautiful job.

www.Facebook.com/YARNutopiaByNadiaFuad         www.YARNutopia.Etsy.com

       I recently received this on my e-mail and thought I would pass most of it on here in my blog.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

      -You're a 19 year old kid.     You're critically wounded, dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.   It's November 11, 1967.   Your unit is outnumbered  8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.
       You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.  Your family is half way around the world,  12,000 miles away, and you will never see them again.
      As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.   Then-over the machine gun noise-you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.  You look up to see a Huey coming in.  There is no MedEvac markings on it.
        Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.  He's not a MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
     Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come.  He's coming anyway.  And he
drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you on board.   Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. 
     And, he kept coming back!!!  13 more times!!!  Until all the wounded were out.  No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.  He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day.
     Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.
                Medal of Honor recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died recently at the age of 70.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
        We so often do not hear of our heroes.  Our courageous men and women.
We do hear about the bickering in the political machine, and about the shootings,
and how there are just so many bad things going on.  What about those that do
this type of job daily?  For recognition? For fame? For what?
      Because they are called to,  To do something for the benefits of others.  To go
beyond what most of us would even consider.

            I want to thank them for this.

     Everything continues to change, whether we are ready or not. Life is like art, the colors and mediums continue to evolve into new things, new ideas.  Isn't it wonderful that God has created such a variety of colors and ideas to work with.  He is truly the MASTER CREATOR.