Paul Stenquist wrote: > > 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
Yeah - it would be nice to shoot in digital - I think you are right about the galleries not caring as much about quality of chromes - though I'd like to do my best work anyway - but do care that someone is submitting is true own work and things that have not been made to look much better than what they are by futzing with stuff in photoshop. ann > 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 > >
