Photoshoot Day

Documenting and celebrating new art

Hello art friends and welcome to Photoshoot Day!

Every once in a while, when the mood strikes, I like to stop and take a moment to get dressed up with my art and celebrate my journey as an artist. I find pauses like this help me to acknowledge hard work and build confidence in my relationship to a professional presence.

Also, right now, I’m especially excited about a new body of work I’m developing, and wanted to document my progress for my own records as well as for upcoming juried art opportunities. And as long as I was at it, embracing my enthusiasm, I decided to pose with the art in one of my favorite thrifted dresses (thank you Revolve Corvallis!)

It’s always an interesting task when doing a photoshoot solo with only an iphone, tripod, and a couple of light stands. I will never claim to be a photographer, but I did my best, and I actually love some of the images that came out of the process (regardless of a few lighting issues).

And let’s not forget the most important model!

Peaches the cat inspects the new art installation

For anyone who struggles with putting together a personal photoshoot, I want you to know I struggle too. Our home is small (1000 sq. ft. with one bedroom dedicated to my studio practice). Finding room to work let alone photograph the art is always a challenge.

In this case, I made use of our little dining nook by moving out the table and chairs, taking existing art off the wall, setting up my tripod on the kitchen island, and carefully cropping the photos.

I think it’s a good reminder that not everything is always as it seems - something to keep in mind in an algorithmic and AI image-driven world. As long as I represent the art as honestly as I am able, I am willing to crop the rest out to give it the polish it deserves.

And for promotional and marketing photos (especially when it comes to offering prints of my original art), I will also use services such as Canvy.com to provide a variety of settings. Since I scan my art (rather than photograph it), I am confident in the image capture that I use for both my printed reproductions and digital mock-ups such as this.

I hope this is the first photoshoot of many for this series, but only time will tell. If nothing else, I plan to make more opportunities to wear and photograph my dress and vintage shoe collection!

To celebrating the journey,

Jennifer

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If you want to learn more about this body of work…

Unforgotten

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