Photography Trick

I recently posted this photo on my social media, and a friend commented, saying it must have been difficult to shoot this piece of glass. In fact, it was easy. The glass piece is a rainbow colored Sanyu Narumi vase, so all it needed was some light. The last time I shot one of these pieces, I used a remote controlled battery operated disc light and set the vase on the disc, carefully balancing it so the vase wouldn't fall over. That worked, but this time I couldn't find the remote control for the disc light, so I had to think of something else. Then it came to me. I could use an iPhone flashlight. It was even easier then the disc, since it was easier to prop up the vase on an iPhone. I just turned off the lights, turned on the flashlight, pointed it upward, set the vase on top and shot it with another iPhone. No Photoshop necessary. And that, my friends, is how to make a super easy shot look dramatic and difficult. The vase is now available in our Etsy shop, VintageVaultPDX.