some other notes about how I use my journal: - the little date tracker is sized to fit the orange stickers that come out on the pieces! I find it so satisfying to stick them in my notebook once a piece comes out of the kiln - On the project tracker pages there is a space for your “final piece”. I use an HP sprocket that prints out little 2x3 stickers from my phone so I have a little picture to reference. - The format of the notebook is an A5 journal, so you can add, change or remove pages as you’d like! - I’m also selling just the digital design file if you’d like to print it yourself (just haven’t gotten that Etsy page up and running yet!) feel free to comment here if that’s something you’re interested in :)

Ooh! First of all would LOVE to hear other people’s answers on this. I’ve seen some really nice photos from people in the studio. I’m a (side hustle) photographer, but have been trying to finesse an easy and quick setup that didn’t require me to do a large scale project with my camera. This is the “simple setup” I came up: 1. Backdrop: I just used a roll of wrapping paper to make a mini seamless display. A seamless is great because it takes away sharp corners and distractions. 2. Diffused light: this is HUGE especially with glossy pottery. Sometimes reflections in the glaze is hard, by diffusing the light you lessen the harshness and are able to photograph the glaze more clearly 3. Portrait mode: depth of field is what a lot of people attribute to “good photography”. A real camera does this with aperture, but our phones kind of fake it with portrait mode. I like to use it especially when I have multiple pieces in a shot!

Thanks for the update, Judy!! And appreciate you taking a look. I think we found one!

omg beautiful!!! And thank you for sharing all of these amazing thoughts and tips. Congratulations on the wedding (and the STUNNING decor)!

I was about to say the same!!! LOVE it