November Meeting & Program: Photographing & Styling Handwovens, by Elaine Palmer

Two 1-hour presentations, guild members are encouraged to
watch both as each hour’s topics are discussed in more detail.

We photograph our handwovens for many reasons: to catalog our personal work,
for submission to juried shows, to post on our websites or websites such as Etsy,
and for printed publications. This talk discusses design and technical
considerations when photographing and styling handwovens for different media.
The talk includes discussion of studio lighting, outline vs. simple environment, and
styling techniques Elaine used when photographing handwovens for the Weavers’
Guild of Boston’s 90th Anniversary book, Interlaced. There is also a discussion of
how to shoot for Etsy and layout considerations when designing direct mail
collateral and on-figure photo shoots. There will be a short demo of the lighting
technique and styling at the end of the evening presentation.
(no supplies are needed)

Elaine Palmer has a BFA in Graphic Design from Kent State University. She was an
on-figure and product Photo Art Director/Product Stylist/Producer during her
professional career art directing on-location and in-studio advertisements and
catalogues for 30 years for companies such as Eddie Bauer, Hang Ten, and
Nordstrom. As Sr. Producer managing all flat photography for the in-house photo
studio for Nordstrom.com, she produced the first Nordstrom Style Guide for
freelance stylists to ensure proper and consistent Nordstrom branding.
Elaine moved to Amherst, MA, in July 2008 after living and raising a family in Seattle
for 27 years. In 2013 she completed a four-year weaving course at Hill Institute.
She enjoys weaving tea towels on her computerized 16S Toika and graphic images
on her Ideal Glimakra converted to a single-unit drawloom. She and her husband
relocated back to Seattle in the View Ridge neighborhood in 2021.
Her professional experience as a Photo Art Director working in the fashion industry
was an asset in photographing and styling handwovens for the Weavers’ Guild of
Boston’s 90th Anniversary book, Interlaced.

Join the Zoom meeting by clicking this link:
https://zoom.us/j/2290207971?pwd=elJvd2w0L2NsMlJPZXhNM3JlTFphZz09