Description of Presentation

Shoot your Quilt! How to Photograph Your Work for Judging, Magazines, & Online Galleries

You spent dozens or perhaps hundreds of hours creating your quilt. Don’t let a shadowy, dark, or badly lit photograph represent it. In this lively webinar, Pam Robertson Rivet will show you how to photograph your quilts so they look their very best when you submit them for jurying, judging, magazines, websites, social media, or online galleries.
Using examples of the good, the bad, and the unfortunate, Pam will share simple techniques that can dramatically improve your results, even when you shoot with your phone (because phones can be an ideal camera…or not!). Learn how to avoid the most common quilt-photography mistakes, use light to your advantage, position your quilt and camera correctly, create a simple filter, capture colour and texture, and create the important detail shots that judges, editors, and viewers want.
No fancy studio. No intimidating camera lesson. Just practical tricks, dramatic before-and-afters, and incredible photographs of the quilts you worked so hard to make.

About Pam Robertson-Rivet

Pam Robertson Rivet, PhD, is a professional quilter, designer, author, and enthusiastic traveler of side quests. Her interdisciplinary background has given her an excellent excuse to ask questions, dig deeply into the worlds of quilting, textile art, and creative practice, and learn from scholars, professional artists, and yes, photographers. She also holds a diploma in graphic design.
Pam brings curiosity to everything she teaches, mixing solid research and practical know-how with stories, humour, and the occasional strong opinion about what really works. Her goal is simple: make useful information memorable, approachable, and a lot more fun than reading an instruction manual—or an AI-generated cheat sheet.