[Jewelry making - Article 00456] - Re: [Orchid] The philosophy of choosing jury photos

[Lisa Gallagher]

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    Thanks for posting the pics, Jan. Beautiful work. As I had mentioned
    before, I'm no expert, but I still have a couple comments to make
    regarding the actual photos. Please take these as constructive... 

    1. Just have one piece per picture. I think there might be
    exceptions where it's OK (other than just the show being more relaxed
    with it's jurying process), but I think the general rule is just one
    per picture, please. Maybe to have the matching earrings is OK, but
    maybe someone else will say that's still a no-no. 

    2. I shouldn't be thinking "that's pretty slate in the background."
    Make the background plain; don't use props or "interesting
    backgrounds". Keep it what it is, a *background*. As Karen Christians
    of Metalwerx put it so well, "Textural backgrounds. No. No. No. Your
    work is not about what it is sitting on, it is about you. No piece of
    wood, fabric, black beans or rice will make your work look better
    than it is." 

    3. Related to that, I suppose, is that although your pieces are very
    pretty, they don't stand out in the pictures. They are there, that
    is all. Use better lighting, and I suppose better background
    material, to make the pieces really stand out when they're viewed.
    Also, better cropping so that there's not so much negative space in
    the frame. Again, show off the jewelry, not the background. The jury
    is looking at hundreds, maybe thousands, of images. Many of them will
    be jewelry, as we know. They don't have much time to look at them.
    Make them sing! 

    All that being said, though, I will say one thing that was nice was
    that it did look like they were made by the same artist, the
    collection of pictures has a common feel to it. Although I wouldn't
    choose that background, they did all look like they were taken at the
    same time, and that's good. That adds to the feel that they are a
    group of work by one artist. 

Lisa
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