Examples of my artwork photography and before and after examples of jury images I’ve improved.    Read More…>>

I’ve been doing photographs for Pittsburgh quilt artist Patty Kennedy-Zafred for a few years. Her latest piece is a vertical 8 foot quilt..    Read More…>>

High key flowers photographed using diffusion filters and backlighting as the only light source. Traditional photographic techniques.    Read More…>>

My wife has been telling me I shouldn’t apply to shows until I have new pictures. I even had a show director tell me not to apply anymore until I had new work.    Read More…>>

After an accident in front of my house, the volunteer fire people agreed to have me take their picture for my visitors to my house gallery.    Read More…>>

Jewelers sending jewelry to be photographed would be better off using small pieces of bubble wrap instead of cotton inserts     Read More…>>

How much work goes into creating a good booth image. Some artists take a picture of their booth set up at an art show, sometimes with a cell phone camera, hoping it comes out good enough to use. For other artists it involves setting up the booth at home for the picture, and be willing [...]    Read More…>>

Wearable fiber booths always are a challenge to photograph for the booth picture    Read More…>>

even slightly passive aggressive artists know that someone needs to be there at the last minute    Read More…>>

My workshop and the image evaluation jury for the St Louis Art Fair was Feb 1st and 2nd. The Friday evening workshop was about how to photograph artwork for jurying. It went four hours because I encouraged questions during the presentation instead of waiting until the end when things might be forgotten. Saturday was the [...]    Read More…>>

Occasionally I get a phone call asking about a photograph someone found when    Read More…>>

A great many of us have been there at one time or another in our career. An art and/or craft show in a convention center type facility where only pipes and drapes separates the booths    Read More…>>

A uniform or cohesive body of work makes a strong set of jury images. For artists who create work with a common theme or style, it’s relatively easy to choose which pieces to photograph for a set of images to jury with. It shows vision and growth within your medium. For other artists though, it’s [...]    Read More…>>

Why is this woman so looking so happy?     Read More…>>

Tomorrow is my 64th birthday and I wouldn’t have written about it except that the picture we took was hilarious. I set up the camera remotely and it caught Xena eating the birthday cake    Read More…>>

I’m not going into details about how your booth picture can effect your jury score. That’s been discussed over and over. It’s important to know that it does. I guess a lot more artists are waking up to the fact that they need a good booth picture before they spend their jury fee money because for the first time this year, I’ve been working with northern artists setting up their booth outdoors in the snow to photograph it,     Read More…>>

Xena opened a pornographic email and then changed the channel on the TV to a religious station    Read More…>>

JJ Reichert drove from Columbus Ohio for me to photograph her wonderful handbags.    Read More…>>

There have been many recent comments from artists about being rejected from shows they’ve applied to. I feel that the difficulty of getting into art shows starts with the jury    Read More…>>

A few programs that I’ve discovered to be real time savers, or do what they are intend to do better than the competition, saving you time and money.    Read More…>>

Happy Holidays from Mary and Larry Berman, Elvis and Xena.    Read More…>>

A few quirky jury images that may cause comments that slow the jurors down while they look at your work    Read More…>>

There is a browser app that allows you to upload images from your own photos (Camera Roll) on an iPad or iPhone. And it also tells you the pixel dimensions    Read More…>>

You might have heard about the uproar over the December 4th New York Post cover picture of the man about to be hit by the subway train in New York City. The photographer who took the picture, when asked why he didn’t try to rescue the man, said that he tried to use his flash to warn    Read More…>>

My popular article on how to set your digital camera seems to have missed an important setting when photographing small objects like jewelry. Though the quality of a jury image is mostly determined by the lighting, if you can’t get the entire object in focus, you may be wasting your time.    Read More…>>