About to try...

This week I am challenging myself to try something a bit different for me, some product photography. I am not good at setting up still-life type photography, which is sort of what I need to do.

I need to photograph some of my knits, both for my own records and to post some of them online to sell. I also need to photograph all of my shawls so I can put the photo with the shawl when I have them at a show. Somehow a shawl just doesn't look as pretty as it is when it's folded on a table.

This week I will be begging friends and family to model for me, trying new ideas, improvising props, and just generally trying to get lace to show up and look as beautiful as I can in a photograph. If anyone has ideas on props, cheap ways to create a head bust to show hats/headbands on, or how to display and photograph shawls, I would love to hear them! Please post a comment with suggestions, I'm willing to try them out!

iPhone shot of one of the shawls, pinned out while drying.