Bloem (Flower) 2
Eugène van Veldhoven
Designer of textiles and wallcovering since 1993. Designing patterns for textile industry, with a focus on decorative techniques. Producing short runs for fashion houses. Researching 3D printing flexibel materials.
The coming weeks I'll be writing some of my thoughts on flowers and flower patterns.
I work with two digital cameras; a pocket Panasonic and a Sony reflex camera with a Sigma macro lens. I have never invested in expensive cameras for want of more pixels. Even though some digital printers boast to work with a resolution of 600 dpi, I found that for textile and wallpaper 254 dpi is really enough. Sometimes the enlarging op photographic elements in a pattern can give a blurry effect, but it has never bothered me, as long as the brightness of colors is not compromised. Actually I often find it renders a painterly quality to the image. And then there is always the rule that the larger the scale of a pattern, the more people tend to look at it from a distance.
Recently I built my own light box with two LED lamps, which means I can have a lot of light on the flowers without creating sharp shadows.
And obviously, when using a macro lens, you need your camera to be fixed to a tripod, and use a self-timer.
Don't worry; it will not get more technical than this...
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