I finished the Sunburst Rainbow quilt two years ago, and never got to take any formal photos of it.
I was able to borrow it and take it out for a photo shoot. This one was OK, but I really didn't want the quilt to look like it had spouted from the planter.
This photo didn't really show the design off very well. The skinny lines looked they were falling off the quilt and down the steps.
This photo is a good one!
This is a gigantic tree, but I don't think the photo is particularly successful.
This isn't bad.
This could have been THE ONE if I had not chopped off the bottom corner of the quilt. DAMN! Why do I think it was so good? I particularly like the contrast lines - the vertical lines of the siding of the stairway, the horizontal lines of the siding on the house, the vertical lines of the stair rail, all contrasting with the bright colored diagonal lines in the quilt itself. I think for this shot to work, I'd need to have included that lower corner (duh) but also backed up a bit to include more of the horizontal siding of the house above the quilt, like in the photo below.
Just like designing the quilt, you have to keep trying different things to see when something clicks. In this photo, I realized that maybe showing the quilt as flat as possible was the thing it needed.
I took this photo and then thought, oh darn, the quilt is flopping over on the left, and that big plastic bin on the left has to move...
So I straightened out the quilt and moved the plastic bin. While I think this one is damn good, now that I have had a chance to compare them, I like the one above this better, and think it's a more successful shot in many ways.
However, I'm happy with each of the last two shots. They'll work, and I'm learning. What's interesting is except for the giant tree and the white fence, all of these shots were taken on my property, which just goes to show you don't have to go far to get inspired.
