Hi All
By end February I hope I can share with you a load of stuff / hints about photography of IPBs
NOTE : to photograph any INSIDE painted (snuff) bottle ("IPB" ) is notoriously difficult .
Any other type of snuff bottle or small solid art object is child's play by comparison
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The gracious lady ( her name is Heidi) who was my PA for many years has ( sadly, but inevitably) been laid off following my own retirement last year
Heidi has been training privately for professional photography for the past several years and some of her pics are literally prize-winning standard. She even made a private trip to far north Canada to photo the northern lights !
Heidi volunteered her first week after lay-off to professionally photograph my collection in her tutor's studio. It's going to cost me US$50 / hour for the studio and I reckon we need a whole week ...
300 bottles x 2 sides x 5 minutes per perfect picture with photo-shop editing to cancel the flash reflections .... work it out !
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But I really do want to get my complete collection professionally photographed for posterity and also so I can FINALLY post on Bill Patrick's amazing website.
www.snuffbottlecollector.com Heidi is confident she can reproduce that wonderful white-to- grey- dark background
and also capture the true colors inside the bottles. I do hope so !
But anyway, I learned a very simple way to photograph bottles to 90% perfection from a Hengshui top artist which only needs a small cardboard box , and I will share this method later
Please hang in there..... please !
Cheers
Peter