Pottery photos
Everyone who's ever said "Pictures?" -- this is your fault, and you are obliged to look at the silly things, at least this time. Everyone else is advised to flee in terror.
I acquired a Canon powershot SD1100 IS, which is approximately what a few people recommended but a model about a year older, as the major differences between it and the newest one in the line seemed to be the maximum picture size and a factor of three in price. Given that I have no plans to print anything and that the second-smallest image size on this camera is as large as the screen on the laptop, I felt no pressing need for an even-bigger image.
All of this first round of pictures was shot inside, at night, under fluorescent light, with flash, at 1600x1200, in auto-everything, except one for which I tried macro mode. I've scaled them down and cropped them, but that's it. The ones where I moved in very close are overexposed, some of the others are underexposed. The colors aren't too far off, for all that.
Photo-taking and photo-wrangling advice cheerfully accepted. The last camera I owned used film and had all of about three buttons. This one has menus. And themes. And a filing system. And I don't know what 3/4ths of its functions do even after reading the manual.
The mug family portrait:
The ones in front are quite a bit smaller than the ones in back.
An accidental bottle:
No stage of making this followed the plan in any way. I'd set out intending to follow instructions and make another mug, and decided to fiddle around with adjusting the diameter -- bigger is easy, smaller is hard -- and after several amusing mishaps that were aggressively trimmed, wound up with something with a small enough neck to pass itself off as a bottle. Later I went to trim it and dropped it while trying to balance it upside-down (I have since learned there's a tool to do that with), putting a large gouge in the side and discovering just how thick (very) the walls were. The ribs developed following the curve of the gouge, and took off something like half the clay. The glazing was a mad experiment, and the first time I'd used a 'runny' glaze -- I'd figured it would follow the ribs, which it did, but hadn't realized how weird it looked when thin ...
Two small slab-built containers:
Mugs need handles. Most of the handles I've built so far have been cut from a slab of clay. The side effect of this is a lot of left over rolled-out clay, which I can't resist trying to make into something. Good for glazing and carving experiments, but a girl only needs so many toothpick holders.
Not quite a bowl:
This was before the official "how bowls are not like mugs" demo, and is built on the cylinder model, with a flat bottom & no foot. And it's really not a bowl with the sides curving in -- what is it?
There are many more pictures in the gallery! I'm using LJ's scrapbook function for the moment, but it's finite. It seems broken to link to my school account when I'm not using my real name on LJ. I suppose I'll want to sign up for a photo hosting service at some point?
I have another five objects in progress at the studio, one of which is a mad carving project that will take ~forever, and another one of which is nominally my first real bowl.
I acquired a Canon powershot SD1100 IS, which is approximately what a few people recommended but a model about a year older, as the major differences between it and the newest one in the line seemed to be the maximum picture size and a factor of three in price. Given that I have no plans to print anything and that the second-smallest image size on this camera is as large as the screen on the laptop, I felt no pressing need for an even-bigger image.
All of this first round of pictures was shot inside, at night, under fluorescent light, with flash, at 1600x1200, in auto-everything, except one for which I tried macro mode. I've scaled them down and cropped them, but that's it. The ones where I moved in very close are overexposed, some of the others are underexposed. The colors aren't too far off, for all that.
Photo-taking and photo-wrangling advice cheerfully accepted. The last camera I owned used film and had all of about three buttons. This one has menus. And themes. And a filing system. And I don't know what 3/4ths of its functions do even after reading the manual.
The mug family portrait:
The ones in front are quite a bit smaller than the ones in back.
An accidental bottle:
No stage of making this followed the plan in any way. I'd set out intending to follow instructions and make another mug, and decided to fiddle around with adjusting the diameter -- bigger is easy, smaller is hard -- and after several amusing mishaps that were aggressively trimmed, wound up with something with a small enough neck to pass itself off as a bottle. Later I went to trim it and dropped it while trying to balance it upside-down (I have since learned there's a tool to do that with), putting a large gouge in the side and discovering just how thick (very) the walls were. The ribs developed following the curve of the gouge, and took off something like half the clay. The glazing was a mad experiment, and the first time I'd used a 'runny' glaze -- I'd figured it would follow the ribs, which it did, but hadn't realized how weird it looked when thin ...
Two small slab-built containers:
Mugs need handles. Most of the handles I've built so far have been cut from a slab of clay. The side effect of this is a lot of left over rolled-out clay, which I can't resist trying to make into something. Good for glazing and carving experiments, but a girl only needs so many toothpick holders.
Not quite a bowl:
This was before the official "how bowls are not like mugs" demo, and is built on the cylinder model, with a flat bottom & no foot. And it's really not a bowl with the sides curving in -- what is it?
There are many more pictures in the gallery! I'm using LJ's scrapbook function for the moment, but it's finite. It seems broken to link to my school account when I'm not using my real name on LJ. I suppose I'll want to sign up for a photo hosting service at some point?
I have another five objects in progress at the studio, one of which is a mad carving project that will take ~forever, and another one of which is nominally my first real bowl.