Dear Everybody, i need a recommendation on a photographer to take
pictures of my pieces. I need someone who knows what he/she is
doing, because i only have enough money to do it right the first
time. there aren’t funds for “shopping around.”
i have been victimized in the past by photographers who agreed to
photograph my jewelry, and then didn’t do a good job. the jewelry
was perfectly centered in the photo (a plus) but the pieces were
surrounded by a vast sea of boring background. another time, the
goal of the photographer was to get a bright flash off of the metal,
obscuring stone, pattern, color, everything. (people just assume as
a given, don’t they, that the metal is “shiney”?) overexposure has
also been a problem. these guys didn’t listen to me about what i
wanted - they would get excited about photographing jewelry and get
"arty".
Please please please please please there has to be somebody in texas
who knows a good photographer i can hire. preferably within four
hours of San Antonio (that gets me to Corpus Christi and Austin;
Dallas and Houston-if i’m dodging radar). Louisiana, Arkansas, and
Oklahoma are closer to me than Amarillo and El Paso-please keep this
in mind. Hopefully, though, there should be somebody closer than
out-of-state.
I am a horrible photographer. My pictures always have to be labeled
so that people know what they are pictures of. and anyway, i’m a
jeweler.
Thank you all- you’re a Godsend on any day,
susannah