photo of my art work.

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Permalink Reply by Paulina Govaert on January 23, 2012 at 4:18am

Hi Nirsha:

 

Having a good camera counts but not a major thing.  The best place to photograph your art is outside in natural light, in shade not direct sunlight.  If it's not possible to do this then inside but without flash, but you must be in a well light area with out casting shadows (that goes for outside too, make sure there are no casing shadows or reflections.)  Try to take your picture with at least 2-4 MB in size, you can always downsize it latter.  Always take your photo eye level to your painting, not above and not from below.  Take your photo before framing or under glass.  There are several people who post their paintings with backgrounds of furniture, easels, mats  etc ...   I personally think this is very dis-tracing and doesn't show your painting in it's finest form.  Crop all background away until you have just the painting.  If you have a good photo editor, adjust the paintings contrast, hues etc ... with the painting next to your monitor.  If you don't have good photo editing software , you can use this program, it;s on line, free, no downloading, just edit and save http://pixlr.com/

 

Hope this helps out.   You can also do a search on this site, maybe someone has a video, or diagrams to take some quality photos of your art.

 

Good Luck

Paulina

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Permalink Reply by nirsha on January 23, 2012 at 4:38am

Thank you so much Paulina! this is really helpful and I will certainly check out the editing website.

Paulina Govaert said:

Hi Nirsha:

 

Having a good camera counts but not a major thing.  The best place to photograph your art is outside in natural light, in shade not direct sunlight.  If it's not possible to do this then inside but without flash, but you must be in a well light area with out casting shadows (that goes for outside too, make sure there are no casing shadows or reflections.)  Try to take your picture with at least 2-4 MB in size, you can always downsize it latter.  Always take your photo eye level to your painting, not above and not from below.  Take your photo before framing or under glass.  There are several people who post their paintings with backgrounds of furniture, easels, mats  etc ...   I personally think this is very dis-tracing and doesn't show your painting in it's finest form.  Crop all background away until you have just the painting.  If you have a good photo editor, adjust the paintings contrast, hues etc ... with the painting next to your monitor.  If you don't have good photo editing software , you can use this program, it;s on line, free, no downloading, just edit and save http://pixlr.com/

 

Hope this helps out.   You can also do a search on this site, maybe someone has a video, or diagrams to take some quality photos of your art.

 

Good Luck

Paulina

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Permalink Reply by MOD BLUE on January 29, 2012 at 5:27pm

Picasa (http://www.picasa.com) is another good program for simple editing of photos. It's by Google, and it's a free download.

Also, here is a message by an IDAP member that gives good art photography tips:  http://community.how-to-draw-and-paint.com/forum/topics/photographi...

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Permalink Reply by nirsha on January 29, 2012 at 6:12pm

thank you so much for your input!

MOD BLUE said:

Picasa (http://www.picasa.com) is another good program for simple editing of photos. It's by Google, and it's a free download.

Also, here is a message by an IDAP member that gives good art photography tips:  http://community.how-to-draw-and-paint.com/forum/topics/photographi...

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Permalink Reply by Phyllis Flail on February 3, 2012 at 2:54am

Thanks Paulina, there is so much you offer for all of us! 

Paulina Govaert said:

Hi Nirsha:

 

Having a good camera counts but not a major thing.  The best place to photograph your art is outside in natural light, in shade not direct sunlight.  If it's not possible to do this then inside but without flash, but you must be in a well light area with out casting shadows (that goes for outside too, make sure there are no casing shadows or reflections.)  Try to take your picture with at least 2-4 MB in size, you can always downsize it latter.  Always take your photo eye level to your painting, not above and not from below.  Take your photo before framing or under glass.  There are several people who post their paintings with backgrounds of furniture, easels, mats  etc ...   I personally think this is very dis-tracing and doesn't show your painting in it's finest form.  Crop all background away until you have just the painting.  If you have a good photo editor, adjust the paintings contrast, hues etc ... with the painting next to your monitor.  If you don't have good photo editing software , you can use this program, it;s on line, free, no downloading, just edit and save http://pixlr.com/

 

Hope this helps out.   You can also do a search on this site, maybe someone has a video, or diagrams to take some quality photos of your art.

 

Good Luck

Paulina

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