Pricing for Booth Shots

• First hour, includes travel to the shoot site, $75
• Subsequent hours, $50. Typically, my set up and take down time will be about 30 minutes, followed by about 30 minutes of actual shooting.
• Travel time home will be billed at $25/hour
• Processing of the images will be $75 and includes formatting for Zapp supported shows or any other format that you specify, burning a CD or DVD and mailing it to you (Although the zapp format can be emailed, the high resolution files are too big to email.)

Setting Up for your Booth Shots

• Have the booth completely set up by the time I arrive
• Set up in a fully shaded place. The high contrast produced by direct sunlight makes it very difficult to light the booth evenly.
• Face your tent north to keep sun out of the front area.
• Have electricity available. I'll bring an extension cord, but if you have it set up already, so much better.
• Make the floor clean. Place a carpet if you use one in your booth. If on grass, pick an even, nicely trimmed spot. If on cement or black top, clean it up so the surface is smooth and even.
• Simplify your booth arrangement. Clutter seems to be magnified in photographs!
• If your work varies in size, place the smaller objects towards the front if that makes sense in relation to the coherence of your work. If you put the small work in the back it will just look like a few spots in the picture.
• Don't leave large empty wall spaces, especially if the empty spaces are light colored. One option if you have small work, like jewelry, is to put large photos of your work in frames on the empty wall space. Bright areas draw the eye away from anything else and dominate the viewer's mind.
• The work in your booth should be consistent with the photos of the individual pieces that you will submit with your applications. If you submit photos of sculptures of brass ducks for the jury, then don't have your booth shot filled with abstract wood sculptures.
• Eliminate the dangles. No ropes, cords, wires visible from about 8 feet in front of the booth. Step about 8 feet back from the front, even with the left wall and inspect from top to bottom. Move across to the right wall maintaining the same distance from the front and stopping to inspect every 3-4 feet as you move.
• Don't put your name or business name anywhere in or on the booth. Juries want to judge anonymously. (We can put your sign or name or even you in a shot if you want something to show your Mom.)
• If you use central lighting be sure it is all above the top of the walls. It will look like distracting junk hanging down in the photo.
• Remember, your booth shot is important. From what I can learn, most large juried shows will give the booth shot a scoring weight equal to or more than any one of your product shots.

Tips for Booth Shot Photography

• Don't crowd the booth - some say only hang half your work
• Be sure the art work included in the booth shot coincides with the individual art work shots
• If you use grids, cover them
• Consistent body of work versus a sampling of different styles - opinions vary
• No names, - most juried shows try to not bias the jurors with artist's name so lose the sign for the photo
• Shot should be in focus front to back
• Light it well - 3-4 strobes will cover it well, but must be diffused to avoid hot spots
• Leave no large light areas uncovered - it draws you eye away from the art
• Just the booth, nothing but the booth - no neighbors houses, no pretty background mountains
• Shoot inside or in full shade - direct sun creates too high a range of bright/dark and hot spots distract
• Shoot from high vantage point - leaves out unsightly cross bars
• Have a clean floor - sweep it out and then clone out the left-over stuff in the computer
• Put up the sides on your canopy - don't let any stray visual elements in
• Yes you need a white tent - not Uncle Earl's red beach canopy
• No people in the shot - They obscure your work. You get no points for having lots of people in the booth.

• ProPanels
• Graphic Display Systems
• Undercover canopies
• E-Z Up canopies
• Flourish canopies
• Light Craft Mfg, lighting solutions
• Further reading:
  • bermangraphics 3
  • bermangraphics 1
  • Redrainphotography(pros and cons of where to shoot booth)