It's hard to see the true colors of something in a photograph, especially a quilt that's five feet wide and six feet tall from a distance of ten feet away in an enclosed space. If you take a picture of the same quilt outside in the sun, a lot of the colors are a bit washed out. If you take a picture of the same quilt on a sunny day with the quilt in the shade, the colors will have a bluish cast because of the reflection of the blue of the sky. If you take a picture of a quilt when it is overcast, the colors are much closer to reality.
LAST WEEK, the Firebird quilt was photographed on an overcast day.
As you can see it was sunny the day I took these pictures of Tutti Frutti. But I needed to show that this is not a dark quilt, that it is bright and fun and cheery.
I live in New England, in the northeastern US. It's very green. It's something that's easy to take for granted. So when I have an opportunity to take a picture of one of my quilts in very green New England, I do it. So yeah, if you visit me, when you are in the driveway and look up, you see this.
5 comments:
In the house picture or outside picture, I love this and the way the colors come out. I have heard that the best time of day to take an outside picture is in the early morning before the sun totally rises--true??
Super photo of the quilt. I love the green. When I have visited the Southwest, the arid, non greens I find suck the life out of me. When I have tried to use my photo stand outside, I find the wind takes the quilt like a huge sail and crashes it to the ground. Not as easy as it looks to photo. Thanks for sharing.
Am so loving your Zebra quilts! What a great way to use up wonderful fabric. Being a scrap-a-holic, this technique certainly appeals to me.
Liz in Houston
LOVE THIS QUILT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My brain went straight to Juicy Fruit gum from the 60s/70s :-)
It's spectacular anyway, inside, outside, in sun or in shade. But I get it. Getting good photos of quilts (or flower or people or whatever) can be a challenge.
Pat
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