Ok, So I spent the majority of my holiday weekend working on setting up my "newer" booth display and I would really like some honest feedback from everyone on what you think. I finally got rid of the eye sore metal black racks,, they looked bad against the white Trimline tent. I found a used set of Pro Panels from another artist locally, the only problem was that they were that Pine needle green color. My art would look bad on that,,,,so I painted the panels jet black. Yes it is possible to do that, I just used a 1K enamel and it worked,,,maybe I will do another write up about that. The first picture is the new set up, the second is the old just so that you can see what I was working with before. I do plan on getting the skirts from Pro Panels that will go around the bottom of the panels. I hope that everyone had a great weekend and will have a great week. I plan to use this new booth image for shows, if your a juror and have some advice on what I should do to make this better let me know. Thanks!
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Love the new look Steven. Your booth looks sharp and will be perfect with the tiny touches people have mentioned for you to try. What a huge improvement you have made.
It looks so much better! Maybe take a picture from higher up? Or crop the bottom off a bit so that the images are in the center of the picture. They seem a bit off centered right now. But its looking great!
I also had the black grids for many years. I clipped black sheets behind the grids so that it all blended together.
Now I have the mesh panels from Flourish. (needed to get something lighter for me to work with after a serious shoulder surgery
Don't confuse the requirements of this image with the concept of getting the public to come into the booth at a show. This image needs to impact the jurors positively. The best way to do that is to not have distractions and, for the most part, this does that.
Remember, jurors have three or four images of your work to see "up close" plus the booth image which really is to show that you 1) actually have a collection of work and 2) have a professional looking display. Spending time moving artwork one way or the other is fine and, I suppose, makes a difference for people who have time to look at and really analyze the photo, but jurors typically have a very short time to look at a group of four or five images at once, including the booth shot, and most of their attention is going to be on the photos of your individual work unless the booth photo is truly distracting (and your new shot is not).
Yes, looks very good, improved! I would experiment with moving the work around, arranging by color. Just try it! Makes it easier to "read" at a glance for jurors and the public walking by. As Bruce Baker says, you have maybe eleven seconds as folks walk by to get them to come into your booth. If it s easier to read it will not feel confusing, but compelling.
Huge improvement Steven - well done!
Larry Berman
Thanks David and Larry for your comments. The booth is actually still up! I was too tired to take everything down, plus I had a few beers during set up and was far too relaxed to take it all down lol. I figured having a review I could "tweak" some things and then take a few more photos. I just got off the phone with Pro Panels. I ordered a full set of the skirts that go around the bottom so that will complete the look of the panels. The only bad thing is that they have to make those and they will take a week or so to get here and I am not sure if I want to leave my booth up that long. I thought they would have a black set already in stock and ready to ship but I guess not. Anyways, I may hold off and leave everything up as long as the weather does not get too crazy on me. The booth is behind my shop on a level concrete slab where I am doing an addition so I should be fine. I had the carpet folded up so maybe in a few days the heat will flatten the wrinkles out. I will roll that up next time! As for the side walls, I took the picture before I put the walls up so I will leave those on to limit the light coming in. I do have some halogen lighting that I could turn on but the lights are basically just for looks to give you that gallery feel.
I'm assuming you don't have the booth set up anymore. I would have been better to ask for critique while it was still set up. It's much better than your old booth shot. Are the side walls up or down. Would there have been a way to eliminate the brightness coming in under the side walls.
I'd suggest moving the back top center piece over to the left a little for a better balance. Or eliminate the narrow blue piece next to it and then center it over the three lower pieces. The piece on the back right wall at the top needs to be raised to match the tops of the other pieces. And the blue piece on the center right side needs to be moved so that it doesn't touch the piece to it's left from the camera position. The top piece on the panel that comes out from the left needs to come down a little so that it's top height matches the rest of the pieces. The two on the left wall closest to the front can come over to the left a little so the spacing is equal from camera position.
All in all, those are minor tweaks but taken as a whole makes the booth flow better. And everything I've suggested can be done in Photoshop.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
...and (this is when I go back and closely scrutinize things I didn't see in the quick take), you should be sure the light crack you have in the back corner doesn't show. That's getting VERY nit-picky and, as I first said, in the initial quick impression I had as a juror, I didn't see that.
It's just that the more potential distractions you remove, the less chance that a details nudnik like me will find fault. ;-)
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