LESSONS IN PHOTOGRAPHY

I realize the title of this post is more than a bit misleading considering it should be more about this is what not to learn when taking photographs but admittedly, this (faux) gosu surface is a bear to get right. After waiting a week for some actual sunlight to help show the surface of this teabowl, I decided to wing it with my single 200watt tungsten bulb and hope for the best. To fill in some of the gaps, the bowl was made of porcelain and then had a thin white slip coarsely brushed over the main part of the bowl before having black slip trailed and finger-printed over the piece ala khaotique style. The glaze is my Ao+ which was developed to in many respects a faux gosu after the Kawai-mon staple. 

This particular teabowl ended up a bit hotter in temperature than usual which has created a nice effect where it has pulled down the intensity of the color around the mouth and created wonderful, rich drips around the base of the bowl which you can just see in this photo. As for the lessons in photography, perhaps I’ll get this figured out some day with multiple lights, reflecting umbrellas and whatever equipment I would need but for now the hold the floodlight and point and shot method will just have to suffice, I need to get a handle on this pottery thing before I move on to another pursuit.