@Barry, thanks your 2 cents are worth more than you think, I re-torched all three sculptures again trying to bring out more of the blues, purple and green hues, (purple my favorite). Yes, Barry I made a hand hammered copper counter top for my kitchen and the section I use is about 30" x 36" so it limits me in terms of the angles I can shoot. I really like the copper background by I also agree with you that the contrast is not the best, my second favorite background is black and I have shot many of my sculptures with that option and they really stand out nice and the colors are enhanced greatly, I do need to go back to that at least for the taller pieces because that's why I have the problem with framing the image on top.
@Murry, thank you for the input, your observations are taken very seriously as you are often if not always dead on. Yep " Circus Ant" because of it's height I choose to shoot from the above angle and I screwed it up, that angles sucks as the unicycle is not even in focus, I will have to re-shoot that with a different set up. Murry my equipment is nothing like yours, I have a single flexible clamp on lite I use.
@ Roger, thank you for your observations and compliments they are very meaning full to me. I agree that no one photo is best, you have no idea how I struggle with this, it's not easy capturing the essence of a sculpture with one picture, I take about 20 photos or more of each sculpture and then I start the process of elimination from there. I did list a few on Etsy some time ago but not recently. As for the burst of creativity, I am a little obsessive to put it mildly,Lol, I often go through stages, I'm back from a 2 year period of no new work so I had a few saved up, since June I have made some 30 sculptures. The Ant series has really allowed me to do this for the most part, and with each sculpture I'm able to make them faster and with minimum materials, and the ideas just keep flowing, I am able to focus more on movement and emotion and story telling, some thing that my work was lacking before the Ants.