I love Lalo, my light tent!

I used to have a horrible time taking pictures. At first, I didn't understand how to use the camera and MJ's idea of teaching me was pointing at some teeny button and bellowing. "Push that now!!!No No! That! " I never could figure out what "THAT" was.


Now when I teach somebody to do a thing, I say, " If you want to cut
the wire, use the wire-cutters on the table." not "Use those with that." Maybe it's just a guy thing? I don't know.

Anyway, I read the camera manual and learned the names of the buttons and what they were supposed to do. I even bought my new friend, Lalo, the Light Tent.

Lalo has been very good to me. This pre-Lalo picture of Bubbles Latour is okay, but I think the pictures of Lyla (the cat) and Elvis (the monkey) are not thoroughly embarrassing and show my sculptures off pretty well.

With Lalo, the problems I had with lighting my pieces are fewer and make this venture into photography much easier for me.

My new toy

I just bought a light tent on ebay and it showed up this morning. Now I need to get some tiny lights to clip to it.

I want to take better pictures of my sculpts. I hope this helps. I always liked using dark backgrounds for my sculpts but a lot of people seem to be turned off by them . I look forward to trying this tent out on the 3 new pieces I just finished.

I did shoot Lobo on a white ground and I do like the result, but I also like how Rosa looks on black. Decisions, decisions.


Well, I'm off to experiment and see how things look.