Ready for a Holiday (Bluewater Shore) 2017 Douglas Stockdale
Earlier in June I had set up the studio lights to re-photograph the interior of my limited edition artist book Bluewater Shore for some bookstore submissions. Recently looking at the resulting images, one of which is below, I realized that as a result of how I had the lights setup to photograph the book’s interior, I did not really get a great representational image. Then is dawned on me; rather than have the back cover of the book facing the lights, I had it reversed and essentially allowing the book’s cover to cast a shadow on the book’s interior. Duh.
What was I thinking? Okay, so I am relatively new to using studio lights and this pretty dumb lighting set-up was pretty much a rookie mistake. So be it; at least I was not screwing up some commercial assignment in the process. I figure that this is just part of my studio lighting learning curve and hopefully I will not make this mistake again (probably another, but hopefully not this same one again).
I also edited the image on my other computer which has a better color managed monitor to ensure that the resulting images are a better representation of the book. Done.
I will update a few other articles about Bluewater Shore with these new images and then right after July 4th holiday I will start pitching a series of bookstores that sell both photographic as well as artist books that use photographic sourced material.
Cheers!
P.S. I still have copies of this limited edition artist book available and if you are interested, please message me doug@douglasstockdale.com
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