it has been so so hot in the studio the last couple days with the heat wave, I usually just wear my boots or like canvas sneakers in the studio but even the sneakers have been too hot 😭 what do y'all wear in the studio when it's like crazy hot? I'm not working w the kilns so I'm not super worried about like foot safety, but I am on the wheel so non-slippery is important
it has been so so hot in the studio the last couple days with the heat wave, I usually just wear my boots or like canvas sneakers in the studio but even the sneakers have been too hot 😭 what do y'all wear in the studio when it's like crazy hot? I'm not working w the kilns so I'm not super worried about like foot safety, but I am on the wheel so non-slip is important
edit: ended up wearing some kung-fu slippers with rubber soles that I usually use as house shoes. worked ok, could've been more non-slip and more cushioned but I think they make ones that are, I'll probably look into those
pit fired porcelain
I've been trying to document my ceramic work and I can't get a good image out of my camera. I thought it was just that I don't particularly know what I'm doing outside of like, my freshman year foundation photo/video class all of 15 years ago (and that very well may still be the case), but my photographer friend came over to my studio to take some portraits and took some work documentation photos for me as well while he was there, and even the ones I took myself with his camera (which he had apologized for, saying it was a shitty camera) were a million times better. Granted he had done up the settings already, so it could very well still be a user inexperience thing, but considering the amount of time I took struggling to get even one usable image with my setup even in good conditions I feel like even if my inexperience is a part of it, it's not the *only* part? And I feel like I'm not entirely hopeless, I know the basics I think. was trying to prioritize iso and aperture at the expense of shutter speed for exposure to maintain clarity and depth of field and still couldn't get shit).
I have what is at this point a 15-ish year old Canon EOS Rebel T4i, probably with whatever kind of lens came with it at the time, I'm reading that it would probably have been the standard canon 18-55mm kit lens but I'm not sure if that's accurate or not. Do you think it would be necessary to update the camera or maybe just the lens? Or do I just not know what I'm doing lol
I would like to avoid having to drop 2000 bucks on a whole new setup but if it means I don't have to spend weeks fighting my camera to get a couple decent shots of my work it would probably be worth it.
If just updating the lens would be enough, I read that a low distortion 50mm would be good for work documentation, but I'm not sure if that applies to sculpture/ceramics as well since those need greater depth of field than, say, paintings, is that correct/any recommendations? Not sure if this counts as a "recommend me a camera" post but if it is I can edit to include the questionnaire
edit for additional info: the issue w the photos was a complete lack of detail retention, high noise, extreme flattening of color and value, even w the iso way down and aperture quite narrow at like a 1/16-1/8 or slower shutter speed on a tripod. shot in natural light, mainly overcast, no flash, avoided continuous light, used the occasional sheet of white paper as a reflector
is it still standard practice to put your phone number on your business card? I feel like most artists (that I know at least) don't have a dedicated work number, and it feels weird to be giving out your personal number to people you don't really know.
basically I have some pieces in a show next weekend and it's been a while since I've had one, so I'm designing some new business cards. Felt like it would be weird to put my number on there considering the context (there to pick up for whoever walks into the gallery), and I would assume that I'm probably not the only person who would feel this way about giving out their personal number, and considering how the work/home/personal phone separation doesn't really exist anymore it would probably make sense if phone numbers weren't really something that most people put on a business card anymore but I genuinely have no idea what is common practice anymore