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Subject: newbie question, and a hello

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jere
Posts:18
03/15/2007 1:03 AM Alert 
hello
i am trying to figure out how some of you photogragh your paintings, watercolors mostly. i tried to a few snapshots with and without the flash and the image was lacking alot of color and details. i looked around on this forum and i found what seem to me to be some very nice reproductions of the original images. can anyone  give  me some pointers. i would like to upload a picture/painting i made but the ones i have taken make me want to change the painting just to look better in the photo

thanks
jere
Raech
Posts:55
03/15/2007 5:43 PM Alert 

If my paintings are small enough I scan them with my scanner at home (unframed of course). I have also gotten a good quality photocopy made and then reduced in size to then scan with my scanner. The colours are not quite the same as the original but its a pretty good representation. Good luck!

Raech
Bob J B

Posts:14
03/16/2007 4:43 PM Alert 
Hello.
I've had fairly good success in placing the painting on the floor in a room with a white ceiling and use the flash with my digital camera. You may have to take a few images to get one that is centered directly over the painting, ie the sides of the picture are parallel with the sides of the image frame. If this still dosen't seem to give you the correct colours you can use photo software such as Picasa which is a free download and fairly easy to use to adjust colors and to crop the border to make you image closer to your original. Bob
jere
Posts:18
03/18/2007 11:06 PM Alert 
thanks for the replies guys, i will try some more with the digital camera, and if that doesn't work i will try and find some place with a scanner and get them to scan the image onto a disc
Materese
Posts:123
03/19/2007 8:09 AM Alert 
Here's a few things that I found helpful (I am guiltly of breaking all these guidelines all the time, especially when in a hurry, and it shows!)

* Daytlight is best for representing colour correctly - if the weather is nice enough, take your pictures outside on a bright day. But be sure to set up where there is no direct light on your work(glare). Otherwise, using an Ott light inside is great.

* If you have a zoom on your digital, stand way back and zoom in. This allow the most amount of light to get in the lens and will usually eliminate the need for the flash.

* Use a tripod for your camera (I am magnificently guilty of not doing this and get fuzzy pictures)

*make sure the camera is at the same angle as your painting and that the lens is directly in front of and centered on your photo.
Materese
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djme
Posts:5
03/22/2007 8:24 AM Alert 
jere, I take digital pic's of my watercolors outdoors in natural light, if you take them inside you tend to get blue hues.I then can download them to my computer and burn cd's from there. fellow watercolorist John
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