Better quality pics for faceup is important?

I'd probably say that you would need high quality pictures to be able to see all of the details that are put in, but I'm sure that a very good quality faceup and slightly grainy picture on your behalf aren't going to hurt that much.

 

The right angles will help too, the camera going up a dolls nose isn't helpful. Also have some different lighting situations.

Investing in a decent camera is always a good idea if you need to take products of something you're selling.

 

To be honest, I wouldn't commission a face-up artist who had shoddy photos of their work. Firstly I'm going to want to see a clear photo of the quality of work, secondly there isn't really any excuse for it - even a cheaper camera can take a good photo given the right lighting. If the artist can't even be bothered learning how to take a decent photo, why should I take them seriously and trust them with my £200+ doll?! Harsh, perhaps, but those are my thoughts on the subject.

 

I understand what your saying and yes I do think it is important to have good quality pictures of a dolls faceup if I opened up a shop providing it. Think about it, would you buy a faceup from sombody when you couldnt really see the detail on the faceup? I wouldn't honestly. I'm putting my trust in somone for making my doll more beautiful then it already is, if I get my doll back and I completely disaprove of the faceup... I'd honestly have no one to blame but myself for not requesting better pictures.

 

I don't see what the discussion is about... it's simple. A customer wants to see what they are getting. You could do the most brilliant work but if you can't represent it properly, no one will be interested. People have to be able to see accurate representation of the detail, colors, and cleanliness of the work. If it's a blurry, dark, weird-angled photo, no one will have any clue what they should be looking at.

 

I think this can go in the other direction as well.
Many times I have gone into a faceup artist's gallery thread and admired their beautiful work and photos...then I realize that their photos were obviously taken with a good camera, but that all the faces have that soft glowing quality that bespeaks too much photoshop. I know in other threads we have commented about this from BJD companies...but I think it applies to any shop!
Beautiful photos will help your sales because they give the customer a good emotional reaction to your work, but what I would really appreciate from all shops are clear photos with different, useful angles. ^_^

 

For my faceups, I've mostly been aiming for clear in-focus photos that accurately show all the detail. They could be more beautiful or fancier, generally I just hold the head in front of my Ott light and get as clear and accurate photos as possible. I'd rather see a good photo that is in-focus and shows all the details of the faceup accurately than a beautiful photo that seems photoshopped or sacrifices detail for artistic photography. It's possible to have a beautiful photo that shows all the detail, of course, and I'm working on that.

But no, I wouldn't put up a bad photo to advertise my faceups, and I wouldn't even consider commissioning a faceup from someone who didn't have good, clear closeup photos. Not even for free.

 

Absolutely, good quality pictures are a must for any seller (not just face-up artists). I think a lot of people (myself included) automatically assume that if the sales picture is bad, the product must be bad. After all, if an artist can't be bothered to show their own work in its best light, then what kind of care can I expect as a customer?

 

Great pictures are a must for ANYTHING I purchase or commission.
If I can't clearly see what I'm getting with proper lighting, then I'm not going to bother.
You don't have to set up flawless photo shoots and get gorgeous shots, but clear multi angle pictures are a must.
Also, having eyes in the doll works, it gives the doll a bit of life back, and makes the face more realistic and appealing

 

you would need to have nice picture if you were going to open a faceup shop. Having a lot of pictures in good lighting at difrent angels would be the best. And the more pictures would give buyers a better feel for the product.

 

I don't think you need to have "great" pictures. I don't care about, say, composition when I'm looking at faceup photos. What I do care about is that the photos are sharp and well-lit. An out of focus or badly lit photo can easily hide the difference between a mediocre faceup and a good one.

Also, when I'm shopping for faceups one of the things I'm looking for to make my decision is the quality of the details. One of the main things I look for is whether I like how the artist paints the lower lashes. I want to be able to see those, and the detail in the eyebrows and the lips. If your photo is out of focus, or grainy, or badly lit, or over-photoshopped, you might lose those details. And if I can't see them I'm not going to commission you.

 

I'm actually having a really hard time with this very thing- how do I get the best face-up shots for my thread? I just can't seem to take a picture that makes the work show up clearly and stand out well. I was wondering if I should use flash? The one picture I took with flash actually highlighted the details of the face extremely well. I've been using natural light, but it's really hard to see the details in the pictures- and then resizing for the web, my pictures are made smaller and the detail just vanish! Can anyone help?

 

I would never suggest using flash for any kind of photo, you need to find good natural lighting.
From your photos it's looking like you take them indoors? Go outside on a good clear day and take some shots of your face ups then.

 

I do a lot of blythe face ups and other dolls and I always take HQ photos. I think its a given that you must in order to pick up all the details of the work that you've done. If you take LQ shots then it's a lot harder to see minor details and with something as important as faceups I think it's a must. As a customer I want the shot to be as close to the actual thing as possible so if there is something I don't like or want done I can see it and it can be changed or altered. I also make sure that I take photographs of the faceups in natural lighting as other lights can be harsh and produce varying results.

 

Presentation is ABSOLUTELY important. I would not hire a faceup artist that had crummy photographs. With poor photos, I don't know if the artist is any good. Also, a sloppy advertisement makes me think that the artist is going to be sloppy with my doll.

I would also not hire one who didn't use punctuation, capitalization, and grammar well. This isn't your advertising thread, of course, but I would not commission an artist who used "u" instead of "you" in their advertisement. It seems too casual to me, and immature--which is fine in a chat thread, but I'm not comfortable with it in an advertisement. Please don't think I'm picking on you--there are a bunch of advertisements in the commission bbs who have written their ad as if it were a teenager texting during class.