How to photograph your artwork

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Oct 16, 2007 6:48pm zack 198 posts	Here’s a good article about how to take photographs of artwork. http://www.ehow.com/how_2077960_photograph-artwork.html

Dec 6, 2007 4:00pm Daniel C. Boyer 123 posts	Does this seem unduly geared towards digital, rather than regular cameras, or am I misintepreting?

May 12, 2008 6:07pm MichaelLux 2 posts	Good point, though there is a reality here - especially for the many (if not majority of artists who simply want to photograph their art and not learn photography). [I started professionally in 1986 working as an assistant to a photographer specialising in fine art photography in Santa Fe, NM (USA) - where there were more art galleries than restaurants...] Basic rules are enough here - use indirect sunlight (try different times of the day to experience different colour temperatures..., keep your lines parallel (don't distort your lines), use a few different exposures (more light, less light) to ensure a good exposure (this is artistically important as the artist might prefer darker to the average (18% grey) that the camera wants to expose... Don't photograph through glass - if you must then use a polariser filter to reduce reflections & glare... There are good free programmes to prepare photographs for the web, or printing too, like Picasa2 (from google for free) - you do not need to be an expert and the programme will not change your original image (it makes a copy which can be changed or reset as you wish)... Great art badly photographed is sad to see -- best wishes to everyone in this community. Michael Morris

3 hours ago bethpadillo5 56 posts	Yes, badly photographed is sad to see. And I feel the sadness when I see some of my paintings which I photographed and have put in my website. For a number of times I have changed them. Not so often that I get time to check them again and again. I really wish to have the knowledge how to photograph. Thanks for your information here. Thanks, Zack, for the new link on photographing of artwork.

3 hours ago bethpadillo5 56 posts	I have just read the link and the instructions there. What is white balance settings on digital camera as mentioned on Instruction no. 2?

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