Get your craft and art pieces noticed with great photography.
The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos is your must-have guide to learning to shoot better photos, with tips and advice written specifically with artists and crafters in mind. Amidst the sea of handmade jewelry, apparel, housewares, art, and other crafts that populate blogs, websites, and online marketplaces, you need to make your items stand out. The key is great photography. Beautiful hand-crafted garments, jewelry, artwork, textiles, and home accessories can all be undermined by poor or uninspired photos that fail to represent the detail, color, and artistry of your creations.
With The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos you'll
learn that you don't need expensive equipment and a professional photo
studio to get quality results. Heidi Adnum teaches you how to achieve
high quality results with instruction on how to make your own
lightbox, use natural lighting, and properly capture the detail. Broken
down into specific craft areas, you'll find tips on how to best generate
eye-catching images that will help showcase and sell your items.
With the economical photo expert tricks-of-the-trade inside The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos you'll be on the fast-track to boosting your online presence and jump-starting your crafting business.
Introduction
Getting started
Camera basics
How to tell your story
DIY accessories
Photo fundamentals
Equipment advice, Camera settings, Composition & styling, Common problems & FAQs, Practitioner spotlight
Fashion & fabrics
Bags, purses & accessories
Knitting & needlecraft
Jewelry
Dolls & toys
Ceramics & pottery
Art
Books, magazines & stationery
Home accessories
Finishing up & getting it out there
Postproduction
Image storage & backup
Business advice
Contributor index
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
Heidi Adnum is a crafter and professional photographer who lives in
Australia. She also runs a photography and inspiration blog and
authored a popular how-to photography tips series on Etsy.