Archaeological Photography – Experimenting with a Light Tent

I’ve been trying to come up with a better strategy for photographing artifacts while in the field in Jordan. There is a lot of nice, natural light but it’s so windy all the time that a rig with sheets or with paper scales can be difficult to manage. I decided to try out an inexpensive [...]

Artifact Photography – Photoshop Deathmatch

I’m trying to fix some photos for an upcoming publication, and one of the most crucial photos, that of a clear glass “blade,” was photographed…let’s just say non-optimally.
I worked with the photo, but I just couldn’t make it come out very well.  Lots of the detail is lost, the jpg compression is bad, etc.  So [...]

Postscript Artifact Photo Scale

I’ve been photographing a bunch of artifacts from the Hearst Museum for the Bahrain Bioarchaeology Project and I wasn’t deeply happy with many of the options available.  I found this site:
http://anthropolo.gy/
But the resolution wasn’t as crispy clean as I wanted.
So here is a postscript file that will convert into pdfs on most computers.  The postscript [...]

End of an Ear

See, I do print media too.
If you’re ever in Austin, check out End of an Ear, one of the few remaining great record stores.
I’m having an incredibly wonderful holiday–I hope all y’all are having the same.
PS: Anyone have advice on dealing with family/artifacts?  I keep having a couple of them bring me artifacts to look [...]