Beading and photography

[valoise]

After a long lull (most of 2007) I've started beading again, particularly using embroidery. Don't have a picture of those projects just yet, I need to work on using the macro feature on my camera and getting the light just right. I took this picture of a broach I made a little over a year ago, amber cabochon surrounded with agua and green seed beads. The light is washed out, but I like using the black velvet as a background.



I'm going to try a couple of things to get better lighting, maybe even take things to work and use the copy stand there. I'm not one for New Year's resolutions and all that, but I did kind of resolve to do more photography every week. The beauty of digital is you can practice and learn and not have to pay to develop the crappy pictures. I like the immediacy of digital, too. You can see right away what kind of results you've got.

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Pretty!
I've become addicted to taking digital pictures of my flowers.

[valoise.livejournal.com]

That's on my list of things I want to do with my camera. It's got a couple of macro settings so I know I should be able to get some nice shots of flowers. There's a guy on a professional mailing list I'm on who every Friday posts some really beautiful shot of a flower. Very inspiring, makes me want to take pretty pictures, too.