Playing with color

I am finding myself enjoying more and more playing with the colors that anodized aluminum rings give me. It is a depart for me from the steady tone of the stainless steel rings. It makes me want to play with rings that are just as hypoallerenitc as stainless but that can be colored. mabye that will be one of my next projects.

Currently I am moved away from dragonscale and playing with Byzantine.

Have you ever started playing with a new medium before? Kinda fun isn't it?

Photography

There is one thing that can kill your craft dreams faster then a blink of an eye. How you photo them. To minimalistic? Bad. To Busy. Bad. Fuzzy? Worst then bad. And it is one of those games like your crafts not everyone is going to love. I get as much negative feed back about my photos as anyone else.

I have found that sticking to your guns is the most important thing. find a style you think works best. For instance here is mine.  I use a prop and then lay it down like so in my listings. So you get one photo like this:

And then another like the second photo. I use a mirror that accents the gray background that I use. I find it makes the pieces pop. Others don't like it. I make sure each photo is clear to the eyes as well so the details are seen.

Which means for me taking a lot of photos because you will get gems like this:

Sexy isn't it? 

Do I photo shop? Yes yes I do. To make the photos brighter and more crisp. Like so.. this is a before photo shop and then after. With crafting it doesn't have to be the bane all like it is to models.

Just enhancing the brightness of a photo can do wonders for it. So play around and find something you like.

What do you think?

-Blessings!