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Betty Botter read a blog and took a better photo

19 Sun Apr 2015

Posted by fulgorine in Doh!

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earrings, glow-in-the-dark, necklace, photography

It was quite a struggle to take photos of my glow-in-the-dark earrings because I had to use the manual settings on my camera. Fumbling around in the dark is not the best time to try to figure out ISO and aperture. So after uploading my photos on Friday I did a bit of research. I have been doing more with the manual settings and I think I’ve seen a huge improvement in my photos!

Earrings by Cate van Alphen

Earrings by Cate van Alphen

For some reason I had always thought that if the wibbly camera icon showed on the camera screen it meant there wasn’t enough light to take a decent photo. I knew higher ISO was for low lighting, so I’d up the ISO till the icon went away. It turns out this has the side effect of making the picture grainy. In the pictures above they have the same aperture, but the one on the left is ISO 400 and the one on the right (taken in worse light) is ISO 100. I think the second one looks cleaner.

Glow in the dark earrings by Cate van Alphen

Glow in the dark earrings by Cate van Alphen

It wasn’t completely dark when I started taking the glow-in-the-dark pictures, and although it was too dark for me to see the background, at the slower shutter speeds the camera could. So it turns out that instead of increasing the ISO for lower light, I just needed to use a tripod and a slower shutter speed! Doh!

I took some new pictures of a necklace I made back in 2010 using beads made from the same glow-in-the-dark cane as the earrings.

Glow in the dark beads

BEFORE

Glow-in-the-dark necklace by Cate van Alphen

AFTER

Woah! You can literally spot the difference. From now on ISO 100 is my friend 🙂

You can find this necklace in my Etsy shop. I thought it might make a nice companion for the earrings.

April Earrings – Evening Glow

17 Fri Apr 2015

Posted by fulgorine in Earrings Everyday, My work

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glow-in-the-dark, handmade beads, handmade earrings, mood beads, polymer clay

I was inspired to make a pair of glow-in-the-dark mood bead earrings by the Earrings Everyday April challenge.

Hemispheric - Valencia, Spain

“Hemispheric – Valencia, Spain – Jan 2007” by Diliff – Own work.
Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

The thing which struck me from this photo was the dynamic quality of the light, so I included the mood beads which change colour. I made the beads on the bottom from polymer clay and the “white” veins glow in the dark. These beads convey the glow from windows.  The central beads feature the colours of the photo and the patterns are mirrored like the reflections on the water. And the pink cotton cord… well that connects the beads to the ear-wires 😉

Evening glow earrings by Cate van Alphen

Evening Glow earrings by Cate van Alphen

Here’s a close up where I’ve changed the colour of one of the mood beads by warming it in my hand.

Evening glow earrings by Cate van Alphen

Evening Glow earrings by Cate van Alphen

You can find these earrings in my Etsy shop.

Earrings by Cate van Alphen under UV light

Evening Glow earrings by Cate van Alphen under UV light

Glow in the dark beads by Cate van Alphen

Glow-in-the-dark beads by Cate van Alphen

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