Here are a few techniques you can use to photograph sculptures innovatively and interestingly. These techniques can allow you to pour a bit of your personality into your shots.

Pyramidic sculptures are highly varied mediums, encompassing modern metallic or wooden abstracts to ancient structures. The beauty of these sculptures is that no matter whatever you like you get some type of them appealing to you.
Unluckily, most if not all photographs of sculptures aren’t that much artistic as compared to their subject. It’s all effortless to take a simple snapshot of pyramidic sculptures, just documenting it instead of shooting it innovatively.

Despite what kind of sculpture you desire, there are various techniques that you can use to improve your photography. With the help of these innovative techniques, you can capture your subject in a manner that expresses something about you, your personality and the sculpture itself.

Pour your spin in subjects
A significant question you ask yourself while capturing sculptures is whether you should attempt to express the vision of the artist by shooting that sculpture as precise as possible. You must capture it in a manner which says what you view in it.

I think that both ways have their importance. However, I favor putting your spin on things whenever and wherever it is possible. If not you could be left with the photo that is a bit more than a snapshot of anyone else’s work.

Sculpture holding something
Attempt to inject anything of your very own liking into sculpture photography. Whenever you photograph any sculpture, first of all, ensure that you spend a couple of minutes taking it in before getting the camera out. Wander across the sculpture and assess it from many different angles, and observe what different details and features stand out and interest you. After this, you can base your composition on that aspects.

Don’t hesitate to use an unusual camera angle, for example lying on the floor looking up. Don’t think you need to capture the whole sculpture. You are free to zoom precisely in on single particular part and crop everything other out.

Lighting Effects
Sculpture by its very own nature is 3-dimensional medium. You must aim to express that in your photography. Effects of light play an important role in adding depth to your photography. Side-front lighting typically works because it casts longer shadows around sculptures, picking out contours as well as all details on the surface of the sculpture. Best time for such type of lighting is sunset an sunrise when the sun is lower in the sky.

Bridge and Shell Sculpture by the Sea at the Time of Sunset
Perfectly-Lit sculpture photography comes up with depth and detail of the subject. When you do not have a choice of lighting, keep in mind that you still have the liberty to move around your sculpture and opt most attention-grabbing angle to shoot from. It’s usually our first instinct to capture sculpture front-on, from the most obvious point of view. However, you might see that can have better lighting by capturing the sculpture from a side, therefore get ready to experiment with this.

Background
Whenever you choose your composition, keep in mind to think about the background. It is very unsatisfactory to take anything you believe is a fantastic photo to get home and observe bigger distracting sign in the background.

Sculpture of 2 runners
Avoid distracting the clutter in the background to focus the viewer’s attention on sculpture. Plain and uncluttered background works typically perfectly for photographing sculptures as it keeps the viewer’s attention focused on the sculpture itself. When you are facing problems finding plain background, then make use of shallow depth of field. By this, you can throw the background out of focus and reduce its impact.

In my passion for photography and sculpture, I stumble upon a project “Pyramidic Designs” on Kickstarter. The goal of this project is using pyramidic sculpture to illuminate the photography. The creator of this project is using the platform of Kickstarter to find backing he wants to produce light-tight hub which enables users to assemble on pyramidic designs for photography focused light sculpture.

Main challenges and risk in this project is the prediction of over budgeting with producing extruded molds and website design. To minimize all these risks, the project needs partnering with veteran web designers and engineers. Read more about “The Pyramid” here http://kck.st/2J85djY.

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Misty Jhones