My father was an artist who worked in oils. He frequently had to send
in slides for show entries. Generally, the galleries didn't seem to be
too fussy about the quality of the chromes. I shot some for him once in
a while. I generally used outdoor light diffused through a window. A
room with white walls is ideal. With the painting on an easel and the
camera on a tripod, light intensity isn't important. All that matters
is color temperature. I recently shot some paintings with digital.
That's much easier and yields great results. Any miscalculation on
perspective is easily fixed in PhotoShop and of course color temp and
saturation can be adjusted to really nail the look of the original.
Paul
On Feb 5, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Bob Shell wrote:
On Feb 5, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
I don't know that one at all -- Marnie suggested PRovia and
someone else did...
These aren't being shot for reproduction as far as I know,
just for galleries
to review his work. It may be that absolutely precise color
is not going to swing
the viewers one way or the other - but I'd certainly like to
get as close as possible to
reality.
Astia is similar to Provia, but without the exaggerated colors.
Artists can be awfully picky about color accuracy, and I would go for
neutral.
sure.
Lighting will be much harder than film selection. You need daylight
balance, but absolutely as diffuse as possible. Outdoors under
lightly overcast sky would be ideal.
natch - but that may or may not be possible... that is why
I'm going to
check out the scene without even bringing the LX with me.
Watch out for specular reflections if they are oil paintings.
right.
Back in the day I did this stuff, too, a bit -- including
my own paintings, but
the emulsions have changed and Fairlawn lab is gone....
hence the what to use
query. And there seems to be some difference of opinion
here.
I used to photograph a lot of artwork for a gallery near here. They
always wanted 4 X 5 transparencies, so it was a lot more work.
Bob
Right. I think this guy just wants to be able to send out 35
mm slides
to get himself into a gallery or a juried show. That may
turn out not to
be the case.
and I may not acutally have the job - though my impression
was I had been
chosen based on what he saw of mine on the web.
ann
