photo lightbox – Gillian McMillan

Good photos of new work

Some people use their jugbirds for milk and have asked me to make a sugar container to match. My recent batch of work included jugbirds, each of which has a sugarpot painted to coordinate with whatever bird it is. Alan tried out our new photo lightbox for these photos. The depth of field is good but now…

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October 3rd, 2011

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New photo box!

Alan has put together a light box for photographing my work. Using plans I brought home from Medalta we adapted the size and shape and now have an affordable and very effective apparatus. We bought 1" diameter plumbing pipe, Ts and Ls, some foamcore for a light-weight, non-combustible frame for the lights, sheer fabric for a light diffuser and the most expensive item, a special…

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September 15th, 2011

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.