Photographing ceramics in daylight

November 2025

Glazed ceramics are mirrors with opinions. Studio strobes produce hard specular highlights that hide the texture of the glaze, so for Oakmere we worked next to a large north-facing window with a sheet of tracing paper as a diffuser.

The rest was patience: one piece at a time, a grey card at the start of every batch, and very little retouching afterwards.