Hiring a photographer

[Mac Maestro]

So I was wondering. Has anyone ever hired a professional photographer?
What types of things do you recommend they do to get the "perfect picture" for both digital pics and slides. I doubt I'll find one that specializes in art glass. What, if anything, could I tell this photographer to get the slides that will get me into Art/Craft shows?

What kind of backgrounds?
What kind of lights?
Any special tricks to photographing marbles, faceted paperweights, sculptures, goblets, etc...
I really like light emanating from behind my glass. I also like the gradual fade from dark to light in the background. That can be added at the computer, right?

I know I should get a photo set up, but have neither time nor resources for that right now.
And I would hate to shell out a bunch of loot only to find out later what he/she SHOULD HAVE DONE. Any thoughts?

[Greymatter Glass]

I've wondered for years if I should set up to photograph glass professionally.

I have most of the equipment, and I've studied photography for the past 10 years or so (just signed up for Art History 427: Contemporary photography, yay).... I'd love to take a few serious picture of some other peoples work.

if you're intersted I could find out what I'd need and we could maybe work out a trade or something.

PM me if you're interested (or anyone else for that matter)

I'll post some pics when I find them... you can also look at my GA.org gallery, the better stuff is the more recent set up I'm using for digital stuff.

I also have a nice 35mm set up and a professional 6x7cm medium format system for doing slides/transparencies for shows and advertisement.

-Doug

[The Bigles]

I don't know dick about photography but I do know that I really liked the pictures that Marc Vandenberg had taken for him. You should ask him about it at AGI.

[The Bigles]

Oh yeah, Doug, you should be the "official photographer" for the gldg. Put a link up and everything.