BLOG – 35 YEARS AGO BLOG 32

Over the years I have taken quite a few thousand photos and tried many arrangements to get the best image. Starting in 1990 when Glass Creations first set up shop we use a black cloth as a backdrop. Our camera was a cheap disposal type camera, and the photographs were developed at Sutherlands Chemists. We filed the photographs in a plastic folder and pretended it was my portfolio!

I still use a black cloth but of course no disposal cameras are hurt in the process. Quickly whipping out my mobile phone and then its snap snap snap or more accurately click click click! I must admit I get confused with units such as KB and MB especially when the photographs are to be used as part of an application for exhibitions poor for further publication. Now of course I have a website https://glasscreationsirp.co.uk/ so nearly all photos go on there but more relevant is that I always try and publish photos on social media as a way pf free advertising.

Having photos on my phone is useful when wishing to show someone what I make. I can just scroll through all the photos to identify the image that I wish to share with maybe a potential customer. Trouble is the more photos the more scrolling, so I do edit from time to time. Although I take three of four photos of each sculpture that I make I only keep one. People aren’t that interested in seeing every angle of a piece of glass they are only half interested in.

I did in the beginning use scissors to cut the hard copy photo to size and removing all the unnecessary imagery and now I use wizardry to trim online. I suppose I could make a photo album online, but would I do with it? Oh, yea file with all my other glassy books as I only have 500 of them!

Looking back at photos of photos then I am struck by the spookery of the appearance of black cloths, glass balancing on a table. Frightening.