I did this kind of project once,some time ago. I shot slides of the
paintings, scanned them, matched up the colors in the scans and sold the
files to the artist. The biggest challenge was matching up the colors -
I used a netural daylight balanced slide film and shot under natural
light - fortunately the artist had a studio with a skylight and diffuse
natural light. The second biggest challenge was getting the image
exactly registered with the film plane - no perspective tilts. Regarding
rights - this is one situation where I'd sell the full rights to the
photo. Since I didn't have rights to use an image of someone else's work
for my use, the exposures were of no use to me. I'm sure some of the
prints sold well, others did not. Whether they sold or not had little to
do with my photography but everything to do with the original image. We
agreed to fair compensation for my services, I did the ob, and that was
that.
It was a fun project.
Mark C.
On 3/20/2012 3:05 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:
Hello all, and happy spring!
I come to you again, seeking wisdom... I've had an inquiry from a
client about photographing artwork (painted canvases) for the purpose
of creating prints... for sale. A couple of issues come to mind:
1) The actual photography... I'm assuming hi-resolution is the name of
the game here. Not sure yet how big they want to go with prints... I
think some of the actual canvases are fairly large (30 x40?)
themselves. From the research I've done, I'd think my K-5 is up to
the task... Should I consider renting a larger-format camera?
Alternatively, at what point should I consider 'stitching" images
together for large pieces?
2) Rights. So, this where I really have no idea... my standard
agreement doesn't provide for the sale of my images by clients. How
does that work? I'm reading up -
http://asmp.org/tutorials/licensing-guide.html has been helpful, btw -
but has anyone out there ever taken on this kind of project or
provided that kind of license?
Any thoughts or experiences you have to share are very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-c
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