Artist Trading Card Event at Gallery Connexion 2012

This is a pretty straight forward post, I shot the Artist Trading Card event at Gallery Connexion this past week. It's an awesome idea, each local artist invited creates trading cards of their work and then, moving in a circle around the room timed to music cues, collect each others cards. This both gives the opportunity for the artists to be more familiar with each other and own a small representation of their work. Great idea as I said. I decided in the interest of preserving the documentation process, I would post all 56 images I submitted to the gallery for their promotion. This way anyone involved can snatch up images of themselves. Alright so here goes.

Look for more events from Gallery Connexion coming in the following weeks as I'm planning on shooting their events and performances from now on.

Also here is the link to Gallery Connexion's website, check out their awesome exhibitions too!

http://galleryconnexion.ca/

-Larry M. Holder

The Textile Arts of Ali Keely

This is the shot I did this past weekend, it features the work of a very talented textile and fibre artist, Ali(Alexandra) Keely. She has both fine art pieces and production work, the shoot features both. I'll start with the production, I did both a full shot and then some close up details, the marco lens is well worth it's weight in gold for these shots.

It is extremely important to work with the artist to meet their needs, if I hadn't asked I may have missed a critical shot and would have had to reshoot. And now the fine art pieces. Detail shots are extremely important but also one must make sure to capture all angles, especially on three dimensional pieces like these, unless the artist says not to shoot certain angles or sides.

That gives you a little run down of the session process and what shots to make sure you capture if you intend on doing this work yourself.

-Larry M. Holder

Artist Head Shots

This is a collection of low key head shots I did for NBCCD for the production of artist bio cards. It features a group of select Ceramics and Metals students. Not much to say about the technics, I used a three light setup, one main soft box, an upward directional light and a downward hair light attached to the ceiling. I used a modified version of this setup with an extra light to do a documentation shoot of some textiles work, which will be my next update. 

The images may be better presented in black and white, but I'm leaving that choice to the graphic designers making the cards.

-Larry M. Holder