More Aurae Photography

This set Modern Metallics, gave me such a headache! I tried photographing it in my usual studio lighting and the beads just looked icky. I tried outdoor lighting in the shade....yuck. I then tried natural daylight but indoors. I went from room to room in our house photographing these beads and facing all different directions and I was ready to just drop it all together. Then I tried photographing them in the bathroom and...success! I think the diffuse lighting coming from the frosted privacy windows did the trick. The photograph looks just like the beads look in person. Only took me a couple hours...

Photographing Aurae

Jeez Louise. Aurae is so hard to photograph it's frustrating. I've tried studio lighting, natural indoor lighting and direct sunlight. Sunlight is too harsh. Studio lighting shows the colors the best but you can't see the luster at all. Natural lighting shows the luster but the colors are muted. Wally suggested I try using a black background instead of the gradient background so I tried that last night with my studio lighting. It's actually MUCH better (he's right once in a great while) and the luster even shows up a little too. Anyway, these are my Punk Rock Diva nuggets on eBay right now. There's also a set of chunky discs that match, Rivers of Gold.

Encased Aurae

I've been having a blast encasing Aurae lately. So much so that I have five matching auctions of encased Aurae up on eBay right now. I named them all "Ethereal" because of the dreamy, mystic look this glass has when it's encased. There's a lot of luster and iridescence that just doesn't show in the photographs though. I must have photographed each bead set three different times. I haven't seen anyone else get the gold webbing from Aurae either.....and I'm not telling how I did it!

Gala

I did another set of Aurae beads listed on eBay right now. I had done a test bead with a base of Dark Ivory and the Aurae fumed it to an odd dark yellowish brown. I really wanted something more elegant looking so I used Silver Pink, thinking that it wouldn't be effected by the Aurae at all. Wrong! It did turn a pretty yellow though that looks more like antique lace so I was still very happy.

Gilded Angel

I've decided to give eBay another try after over a year of not listing anything there. Unfortunately that means I no longer have a following there but I thought this set was extra special. You can see the auction here. There's also a matching focal here. The set was made entirely of Aurae with just some accent dots in dark ivory. Wish me luck

Aurae

This is the new glass Aurae from Double Helix. The bead on the left is just Aurae. The bead on the right is layered Aurae on Psyche Light on Dark Ivory. I'm not sure how I got the blue webbing in that one but it's seriously cool. I have a Aurae Sea Pod that I still have to photograph and it turned a pale lavender with webbing in it as well. I'll post that in a few days.