Still Life
- Jade Warren
- Apr 22, 2019
- 1 min read
The image you see below is actually something I made myself. It's a plant pot. A cooking pot that say plant. Clever, right? I made it in Pottery 1 as my final exam project, and decided to give it to my mom. I layered different glazes together and I think it turned out beautiful.
Moving on. As I was going on with photo taking, I realized the shine from the glaze was also going to play a part in image quality, and I actually flipped opened flash for two reasons.
1. I tried making the shutter speed faster to lessen any possible blurring, as I didn't have a tripod or anything to set my camera on, and higher shutter speed equals less light let in, even with the overhead light turned on.
2. The flash gives the glaze a nice glossy shine, maybe a little more than in real life.
And finally, the settings I used for the exposure triangle go as shown below:
Aperture - F3.7
Shutter Speed - 1/100th of a second
ISO Setting - 400ISO (the autoISO setting just wasn't working for me, so I changed it to 400)
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I really like the lighting and background of the photo, and I agree the lighting really brings out the finish on the pottery. The only thing that I think you can improve on in this photo is at the edges of the photo, the subject is cut out a little. I would try to crop it out to see the whole subject.