This week off I did very little felting but spent hours trying to find new fiber as my stash is getting frightening low . I will try and show it as it dribbles in this next week . The above larger ????whatever he is, is another experiment in merino covered in thinner layer of alpaca .
I also finally made myself get outside to experiment with out door pictures . Photoing is one of my larger obstacles to listing items on Etsy . I spent several hours looking at other Etsy felters pictures and trying to see what they were doing that made their pictures good/bad . Felt is difficult to take pictures of as the vivid colors and textures seem to go flat . The majority of my pictures have been indoors with natural light.....(but in an apartment that gets very little light .I had hoped that taking pictures late in the day....5pm, would be dark enough not to wash out the colors but add the depth missing in indoor pics. I found that full light was still to much as shown above .
The above and below pics are done in the shade of a tree using a flash and not using a flash . It's taken from a distance of about 6 feet because I wanted to get a panoramic including all the animals .I'm hoping to eventually use a shot like this as a header for my blog and Etsy store .
Other then finding out that direct sun light makes horrid photos, I don't see much advantage to shooting the pics outside . Perhaps it is a matter of needing to adjust my camera but I think more experimenting is needed to learn to capture the color and texture .
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