Check check check check we rollin' alright let's go over here What's up guys welcome back to another pottery video. I'm John the Potter so good to have you in the studio today What are we doing today? We have a full glaze kiln and it's a very exciting Glades kiln so I have had this gradient background so if you look right over here So white to black like normal professional products or ceramics like if you look in ceramics monthly Then you're gonna see pictures with like that Graduated background right and I have never really taken pictures like that I always just take them outside and do it with natural lighting or Just kind of whatever like I do like to take good pictures and I do think about pictures But I don't go as far as to like set up a studio setting so for this video I realized that I have this background I also am doing an Etsy restock at some point this week So hopefully they're Thursday or Friday so keep an eye on for that And so I thought I might as well try and like take some pictures and then see if you guys Can like tell a difference so I'm gonna insert a lot of pictures with a gradated background a few of them I'll go like back-to-back so I'll say do the same pot outside and then do the same pot inside with the gradated background and see like You guys tell me in the comments. What do you like better? I don't know yet because I haven't done it So I don't know what I like better. I don't know. I've never really I've never really done it So a couple cool things in this kiln we fired a couple pots upside down, which is kind of cool I think that they turned out I just saw one of them on the top. So let me I'll show you. Let's go look at it I'll show you right now If you can see this one right here I fired upside down and this one is actually the third time I fired this pot and so Like check this out. Isn't that cool? The way I did this was I have this little so this has little teeth on it and it comes right off so Easy peasy lemon squeezy and then so I fired it upside down. So the bottom is not Unglased it has glazed on the bottom which makes it super smooth and then these drips came down and like dripped right off Which some people might think it's kind of weird to like Put your mouth on a drip, but it's really smooth and it's actually quite a kind of cool feeling So anyway, I think that is super cool Love that I kind of want to start doing more that and then this one I fired for a third time because it had crazy pinholes in it And so I just filled up the pinholes with glaze and then fired it upside down and See that that in there Comes right off Boom so that's cool That's really fun Look at that sandstone bowl Beauty-us Beauty-us some mugs Aurora green over green hopeful This one oh I forgot to say shout it to the sponsor of this video Mako Mako colors all the glazes that are in this all the glazes in here are provided by Mako and their stoneware So check them out They have a link that's just for John the Potter so Mako dot com Mako colors dot com slash John the Potter. Oh, thank you Mako very much for sponsoring this video What else we got? Yeah, this sweet one little carved action in there Got a little marbled clay action in there that soups cool Soup cool and then another marbled one with the Aurora green over green hopeful boom sweet that's top shell. Oh, and then these are letters That I'm gonna make a sign for the studio and that one seemed to stick. Oh, and that one seemed to stick to please don't break. Please don't break Oh, yes These are really cool so this one first is What is this? Norse blue over sandstone and then I have some slip design in there So if you can see that that's turned out really cool So all those lines in there are actually slip a slip work And then this one is another big one with some Alterations from the inside. I kind of did that twist the design not worked at all beautiful I think I'm getting a little better at the warpage issues here in this studio. So that's gorgeous gorgeous And then this one is really cool. Oh So on the outside I carved it you see that This one has that carved outside which I really like that. I'm pretty proud of that And then the inside is this winter wood over top of the bright blue gloss which Turned out really nicely. It's up better Nice Love that. Love it Oh nice and then here we have another large Another large bowl that's really cool looking Whoo, that's awesome twisted design Not worked at all gorgeous That's really cool so cool Oh, oh and then that Norse blue I have been thinking was a little thin So then I thickened it up Which I think looks really good now. So that's Norse blue over sandstone Man, it's getting hot in here Hot If you're wondering why I'm wearing a tank top it's because it's like 80-some degrees in here again There's the Norse blue Over sandstone Oh, and then here's some marbled Marbled clay. I don't think I've you've seen me see in a video in a little while But I'm just kind of working on this to get a little better at the technique before I do a video about it And here's some colored marbled clay so that blue and green within the Elrora green around the rim So those turned out really good. Oh, this is interesting. Cart marble Yes Marble more marble clay with your ore green really like that stuff Super fun and then Norse blue over sandstone really really good stuff Boom so here's bunch more of the Norse blue mugs. Here's a few like there's that Minnesota Honeycomb and then there's a mokamaki one Yes, and then we have a bunch of this this is the so vey glaze So on the Kickstarter we had people that were they bought the ability to name a glaze combo and so this is the So vey glaze this brown drippy Awesomeness that's what it is that's the description for that glaze brown drippy awesomeness That's all the rest of them drippy so vey Got a bunch of those So we'll probably put some of those up on the Etsy shop this week boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom There we go That is all the pots in this kiln guys. All right friends. That was a fun one How about how about those upside down pots how about these upside down mugs like what do you think of that Okay, so what I really need you to comment below on is what do you think of the pictures in this video So like do you like the gradated background Inside pictures or do you like the more natural outdoor pictures That's what I'm wondering and I don't know yet because I haven't done yet So I'm gonna figure it out. I'm gonna figure out what I like better I just took pictures of like most of the stuff and I just thought of it interesting for you guys to see this setup of how I took those pictures So basically we got the gradated background in here and then I got two different lights One kind of lighting up the backdrop from the like so hopefully the like bounces down like I talk like I know what I'm talking about But really I'm just guessing and then one to light up the front So you guys tell me how did the pictures look? They look better than normal. Do they look? I think they're gonna look really good just from what I saw it seemed like it was gonna be Pretty cool. So now I'll just go take the pictures of a few outside how I would have normally done it Before I got this little guy set up and Comment below tell me what you think This versus this what's better Also depends on the light outside too That's why I like this is because this is always gonna be the same I don't have to wait for like good early morning light or good late night or find place in the shade or whatever Like this is gonna always be set up. I also shot it with This which is my sister's lens. It's a 24 to 105. So I shot most of them at 105 um If you're a photography nerd I also am gonna do a future video about Phones versus cameras like can you tell the difference when I take a picture of a pot with my phone or take a pot Picture of a pot with my camera because that's gonna be super interesting That was it for this video Thank you guys so much for stopping by at the studio shadow to the sponsor make-of colors Thank you guys so much for sponsoring. They're sending me a few more new glazes pretty soon So we've done a ton with the North blue or or green sandstone like we have a ton of those glazes But we're gonna get some new ones and start getting some new colors in there. We got lots of blues and greens Cheers got drinks from coffee. Hmm Doesn't that look so much better with that in the background? I think yes. I think yes Okay, so comment below. What do you like better outdoor pictures indoor pictures What do you like better hair down or hair up That's it for this video if you guys haven't already hit subscribe like comment share all the things We'll see you in the next video You