Somehow during the course of this last show season, I lost a card from my camera. Now I have lost all my outdoor booth shots, but have some decent pipe and drape indoor shots. Is it imperative that I jury with outdoor booth shots or will indoor shots work equally as well? Thanks for your help.
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From my perspective as show director......... if you use the indoor shot, write special note indicating that you had a problem with misplacing your outdoor shot and cannot replace it before submitting this app but that you use a white trimline and the set up remains similar and offer to resend when you have it replaced.
People often just send the indoor shot and I pull the app and chase them down unless they have given me info such as above. Leaves a better impression and the director can give you the yes or no answer you seek!
Good luck...... reshoot your booth as soon as possible.... "fixes" often look like fakes and we wonder what is being "faked."
Lois, thanks for that great inside perspective! I just assumed I should use an outdoor shot for an outdoor show and visa versa. Nice to hear from a show director's perspective.
Robin Ragsdale
www.evenbetterimages.com
Thank you everyone for your great insight.
I want to see the booth shot and the images shot in 3-D. The technology is here, now, and it would be the truest way for judges to view the work.
Here is the most important lesson to learn from this experience and it is something that my computer geek friends preach regularly: Make sure you backup your data and then back up the backup, because it's easy to loose things or hard drives break. (Images are just fancy data files). These days there is no excuse because it is too easy to back things up. If you own an Apple product, you get a free 5gigs of space for backups. There are many, many other places to park your stuff in the cloud. Dropbox is one of the easiest to use. Google gives you space. I use SugarSync and Dropbox and i-Cloud. These are good because you can access them from anywhere you are on the road with a wifi connection. Then, I do a manual backup to a DVD disc once a month. There's no way I can lose an image even if my hard drive dies, I drop my DVD's into a gutter, and I lose my internet connection all on the same day. I can go down to my nearest Starbucks and access my booth image on my laptop or my smart phone.
This is my opinion only:
I think the whole booth shot thing is overblown so much so, from what I've been reading, that it the most important image you need for judging. I think this is total baloney. To me, it's the work, the whole work, and nothing but the work, to paraphrase. The booth shot should be just a guide to make sure that A) the work in the booth is the same quality as the work in the images and B) the overall display is professional. Nothing more, nothing less. In the past I've been criticized for using and indoor setup. It didn't matter that I use the same setup outdoors that I use indoors. I've been criticized for shooting my booth at an angle. I thought it was the best way to see the whole booth and what is in it. I've been criticized for shooting my booth straight on but I angle my walls diagonally to fit 11 feet of walls into a 10 foot space. I once got a call because I put my price range from $30 and up. I didn't have any $30 pieces in the booth shot. I explained that it was same piece as the bigger ones, but, I needed a small item to adjust to the economy. That did me a lot of good. Again, this is just my opinion.
The best thing you can do is set up your booth at your next show and before it starts, get there early enough and take the shot, while you have your best work and your booth is the cleanest and most orderly. Or, call Larry and have him schlep over and shoot it professionally.
I have no excuse for losing images, but life sometimes gets in the way. My husband was able to find some potential booth shots from earlier this summer. We'll just have to do a little adjusting. The indoor shots are so much nicer. I need to take the indoor shots and put them into the tent. Anyone know how to do that? Is that even possible because that would be the ultimate?
I've done it quite a few times:
http://bermangraphics.com/artshows/indoor-outdoor-booth.htm
The perspective has to come close to matching and there only needs enough canopy showing to look like it was shot under a canopy. You don't need the entire top to show.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Jan, that would never look realistic. The lighting and everything is so different between indoor and outdoor. Also, you would have to shoot your tent empty and from the exact same angle/perspective as your indoor shot. Way trickier than it sounds.
Robin Ragsdale
www.evenbetterimages.com
Have you looked in the camera for the card?
Indoor vs. outdoor booth picture.
If you have only one, apply to everything with it and keep track of what shows you get into. I would tend to think that indoor shows wouldn't be as particular about whether or not the booth picture was indoor, but outdoor shows want to see what your outdoor booth will look like, especially if we're going to start hearing that pop up canopies are not allowed. I will say that the better prepared artists have both indoor and outdoor booth pictures to maximize their chances of getting into all the shows they apply to.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Larry, I have checked all cameras for the card, but no luck. Most of the shows I will be applying to are outdoor shows. I do have a Trimline. Do you think it is necessary to set it up inside and take pictures. I really don't want to do this, but I will if it is a factor with the jurors.
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