Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Folio photos for tattooers

Being the photo editor for a tattoo magazine I experience the frustration of so many artists these days sending in photos from their iphones. So often I get amazing tattoos and artwork sent to me, but the photos are just so bad they cannot be used. Iphone photos look great on an iphone, even OK on the web, but they do not translate to print very well.
Occasionally I am hired by tattooers to take their folio shots for them. Here are a  couple of examples I did for tattooer Rhys Gordon. It's well worth getting your artwork properly photographed, or investing in a good camera yourself because one day, a print magazine might want to do an article on you!
(all below tattoos by Rhys Gordon except top one on Rhys Gordon by Trevor McStay)