Green Chenille Scarf on the Loom

Here's a shot of my latest weaving on the loom, a rayon chenille scarf that is a special order for my shop on Etsy.

I have a new camera, a Nikon digital SLR, and it is way too much fun. I've been trying it out in different lighting conditions, night time and day time, manual settings, and auto settings. I much prefer not to have a flash, because the lighting is very intrusive and often distorts the color of what I am shooting. When I am shooting textiles, it can drive me right up the wall when I can't get the color casts just right.

So, I set up the tripod in front of the loom a few nights ago, and set the aperture to f11 and the shutter speed to 1.5. That's really slow. You need a tripod for that. I probably should have had a cable release too, but I didn't. The resulting photos turned out pretty good. Not perfect, and I still did some tweaking in PhotoShop. This weekend I'm going to set up the tripod again in the studio with daylight and see what happens.

Also, I need to shoot some handpainted yarn for Etsy.

Tokolo pattern magnets final update: wargo-nippon.com finally got back to me on my order inquiry. They are out of stock. They will not get any more. I am getting a refund. So, that's that for now. All the other possibilities are Japanese language websites. But I've got another angle I'm considering...