Topic: Do I have a Jiri Brabec piece?

[dinklepip]

Do I have a Jiri Brabec piece please?  Just ploughing through my book and have come across what looks like it,  pattern no. 5122, c.1969?

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF38241-1.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF3844.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF3845.jpg

[glassobsessed]

Oh yes and very nice too, especially in that colour.

I found it a difficult vase to photograph well and looking in Sklo Union Art Before Industry I noticed I was not the only one to have trouble with it...

John

[Anik R]

If you take a look at the Sklo Union Sales site, you can find photographs of the 5122 taken from different angles.
See here for a blue example: 5122 . 

[glassobsessed]

The trouble I had was getting the camera to focus where I wanted it to, most of the time it was focusing on the far wall, leaving the front blurred and out of focus. No doubt it would have been easier with a camera with manual focus. A vase with superb optical effects.

Here are my attempts:

John

[Anik R]

I'd call those mighty good attempts, John.

[Frank]

Many digital cameras have focus memory, so focus on an opaque object placed just out of frame but same distance and partly press shutter, it will focus... once whirring stops keeping button at that point swing back and frame piece and complete depression.

[dinklepip]

wwoohoooooooooooooooooooooo wicked thanks :rah: :rah: :rah: :rah: :rah:

[dinklepip]

Is this an unusual colour?

[glassobsessed]

Probably not unusual, it is just that I like it.

Thanks Frank, that is pretty much what I did apart from having an object just out of shot at the right focal length, a useful tip that!

John