Thursday, March 4, 2010

Bottle Caps Become Art




Ann has been experimenting with various discarded materials to give them a second life as works of art. She makes delightful tote bags and wallets from aluminized juice pouches and coffee bags, gorgeous zippered bags of felted wool obtained from old sweaters bought at Goodwill, and lately has been crafting pins from bottle caps. I have been trying to do my part by consuming plenty of bottled beers to produce a supply of caps. Sometimes a husband just has to make these sacrifices.

Today, we photographed some of Ann's pins so that the pictures could be posted on her brand new site (www.etsy.com/shop/2ndGoRound ). We tried a couple of different studio set-ups including light-colored backgrounds, lit backgrounds with a frontal studio light, ambient light but finally settled on diffused natural light with the pins sitting on black fabric. A little post processing in Lightroom; and voila, nice shots for the web.

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