I really wanted to shoot my ornaments outside, hanging from a nice mossy tree branch, but it's either been too rainy or too windy as of late. So I was relegated to the inside.
I first tried to make a little back drop and stage out of a card board box. I crumpled up some old book pages, and gave them an antiquing wash of paint and mica powders, and covered the sides of the boxes in them.
The result, way too busy. I think I may be able to salvage it for something else. Give it a few aging washes to tone it down and make it more subtle. But for now, not an option. In the end, I resorted to hanging a piece of ribbon from one of my tall floor lamps.
Then came the fun of trying to get ribbon suspended objects to stop moving. All they wanted to do was twist, and spin, and wobble. Every little draft sent them dancing. Each time the cat would walk by, it would send shivers through the little glass orbs.
It was quite the exercise in patience. And when they finally came to a stop, it would always be with the same side towards the camera. No matter how I would turn them, or rig the ribbon at a different orientation to the camera, whenever they came to rest from my touching them, the same side would be to the camera.
After much struggling, grumbling, and shutting of cats into the bedroom, I was able to get four sides of almost all of them. Some refused to exhibit but two of their lovely angles, and in frustration I was forced to put them aside for a later photo shoot. Some models can never be reasoned with.
So, I've come away with decent shots for most of them, I think I've got a little over half of them photographed. They should be going up on etsy today.
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