One of the penalties of being a one-woman small business is that you pretty much have to do everything yourself. This week, however, I had some help.
I needed to shoot good pictures of the quilts I have for sale in my second Etsy shop. (Amanda Handmade Quilts sells one-off textile items I have made, while Amanda Jane Textiles stocks my patterns. For links to both shops, see the paragraph at the end of the post.)
So, following the three Open Studios weekends (see here) when I paused the listings in the Etsy shop, I felt it was now time for some new photos of the products prior to replacing them in the shop.
I was very fortunate to be offered the loan of a professional camera, plus the expertise of the owner, who set it up for me.
There was also the loan of a professional light, as seen above, focused on the ceiling, which ensured perfect ambient light in the room, as seen below.
I also had the loan of a room with (a) good light (b) modern furniture (c) neutal flooring and, in addition (d) a room painted in a neutral colour.
Each quilt was photographed on the bed, with a plant on one side and a box of quilts on the other, as shown. On the Etsy website, the photo will appear in a square format, as seen below.
It is also important to have the equivalent of a ‘flat-lay’ photo. For really large quilts, like some of these, it is easier to take photos of the quilt hanging veriltically. For this, I used two clamps and the three interlocking poles from my regular quilt stand:
On the wall in the photo below you can just see two screws below the picture rail:
These were perfect to support the pole.
So each quilt was also photographed like this (and then cropped square).
Finally, every quilt was laid flat on the bed, so I could film a video of it.
Take a look at the results of my long day’s work, in the Amanda Handmade Quilts shop here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AmandaHandmadeQuilts
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