For day 3 of knitting and crochet blogging week we are looking at photography. I have recently been trying to make my photos more appealing and have been thinking more about lighting and positioning but his was a chance for me to try some new ideas.
I scoured pinterest to get some inspiration on how to take better craft photos. I even created a new board!
As I don’t have any newly completed knitting or crochet projects (everything is currently firmly parked in UFO status) I decided to dig out something old to photograph. This little teapot was something I decided to crochet one day just for the fun of it. I haven’t used it for anything yet and I’m not really sure what I could use it for, perhaps a keyring or a necklace. Anyway the pattern is from here in case anybody wants to make one and it seemed the perfect thing to try some new craft photography techniques out on!
Plain photograph – no editing
The first technique I really like the idea of is playing with the background. For this I used a piece of white fabric to nestle the teapot in. I have then edited the photo using picmonkey to change the brightness and contrast to make the object stand out more from the background.
White background with altered brightness and contrast
There’s always the classic black and white
Not quite black and white – Ive left a hint of the blue in there
Another idea I idea I tried was to use framing and text to enhance the image. I used the same photograph as above but this time I split the image into 9 frames and then removed the image from the top corner to give space for some text.
Framed image with added text
and finally no round up of photography techniques would be complete without some bokeh!
Bokeh!
I found loads of other techniques I would like to try but I just havent had time yet. I’m not sure if I will use any of these again but it was fun to see how easily you can change the feel of your photograph just by playing around with how you take and edit the photograph.
H.
Hs Handcrafts 
Hi H,
Cool stuff. LOVE that bokeh technique! Where did you find that?
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Its one of the options on PicMonkey, you need to click on the magic wand and then about 2/3 of the way down under the headign light. I just clicked it and then using the paint brush erased any that were covering the teapot. It was really simple but kind of looks like you’ve done something really fancy!
H.
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Looks like you had some fun! And I love the little teapot 😉
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I had great fun playing around on picmonkey too!
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That’s great! Love the teapot – will check out your pinterest board too…
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nope, not listening lol I have enough time-sucks without playing with effects like those :D
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Haha I think I wasted an hour or so just playing around with these!
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I just discovered picmonkey too for this challenge. Boy, I have a lot to learn. Love the little teapot.
I’m a little teapot short and stout
Here is my handle, here is my spout…..
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That was going round in my head the whole time I was making it! It’s really cute but I just haven’t quite figured out what I can use it for
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I feel like the bokeh-teapot is saying, “I am short, stout, and FABULOUS!”
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I don’t ever use pic monkey; these techniques are great!
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Thanks, I only started using it recently for adjusting brightness and contrast. I hadn’t tried some of the other techniques before
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Nice approach to today’s prompt and useful info for your readers. I post to a sharing site 365Project that utilises Pic Monkey but I have yet to try it out.
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