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…>>

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

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

For Veterans Day I want to honor my father and the best way is to point to the web site I built for him in 2001 when my mother passed. He was a bombardier in World War II and his mother saved every letter he wrote home.    Read More…>>

With the growing use of smart phones for photography, including my own, here I am writing about purchasing yet another point and shoot camera.    Read More…>>

How important having great jury images are when applying to the better art shows.    Read More…>>

Every American has the right to vote. Even cute puppies.    Read More…>>

Photographing mirrors for jury images presents a challenge because what’s reflected in the mirror is a distraction    Read More…>>

Things that make no sense and leave you scratching your head, like the art show application that tells you to submit digital photos or digital prints but charges you extra if you send photos or prints    Read More…>>

Getting the kids ready for trick or treating.     Read More…>>

I’ve been getting a presentation ready for my workshop on photographing artwork for the Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh. I believe in redundancy so I always carry additional copies of my presentation on    Read More…>>