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Stained Glass Sign For Omaha Business
August 25th, 2011
I created this sign to hang in a new Omaha clothing consignment store called “Absolutely Her”. It was a surprise gift to the owner from a very thoughtful and generous friend. I used the art nouveau look of the business’s website to come up with the design. I changed the top swirls slightly after my client noticed that some of the the lines looked a little like the letter “a”. I changed the right side to look more like an “h” to represent the name. That is one of the great aspects of having a window custom made – the collaboration that goes on to make it one-of-a-kind. For the lettering, I sandblasted and then painted the letters. I will post pictures once it’s hung!
Photographing Stained Glass
August 19th, 2011
Photo taken by a professional
Photo I took after installation
I’ve downloaded two photos of a job I recently installed. I took pictures with my camera and was so disappointed in the results. The transom window up high was too dark and the sidelights were washed out. I came back later with a photographer, Jim Ferguson, and using a tripod, he shot using a method which is called HDR, or high dynamic range. The human eye sees more tones than the camera. What HDR does is to increase the range of tones that the camera sees. Jim took an under exposed shot, an over exposed shot, and a normal exposed shot of the room with the windows. In his computer, via Photoshop, he blended the three images into one. Now the shadow details and the highlights can all be seen. It is well worth it to me to spend time to get good shots when projects like this take so much time to complete and are only ever seen by the owners!
Stained Glass Bar Sign With Sandblasted Glass
August 12th, 2011
Stained Glass Bar Sign
Close up of barley
This window will be installed in a basement bar/game room of an home built in 1898 for a doctor who makes his own beer. I had the red mouthblown glass sandblasted with their logo. The barley is made up of individual little pieces of glass. I think it adds to the realism even though it was painstaking! I am anxious to see pictures once it’s installed and will be sure to post them.