Size, Colour, Clariy
Art work is someone else's actual creation and depicting it
isn't quite so cut and dried. A recent assignment for an artist who uses colour
very intensely caused me to consider quite heavily just how these images would
print out and while there are some issues that will always come up when taking
the photo to print certain problems can be avoided for the client if the
photographer keeps in mind a few points:
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| Preliminary photo. |
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| Edited Photo |
When using natural lighting it's best to work with even, diffused
lighting. In bright sunshine I will find a shaded area with a lot of ambient
light and with overcast skies I will attempt to take the photo in the brightest
possible light and expose the image with the bright colours in mind...this was
the case as the artist had an exhibition to quickly prepare for and we couldn't
do much about the weather.
It's very helpful if the client can mount the canvass in as
vertical a position as possible and preferably without glass. Fortunately
Shirley's husband was able to assist in keeping the large canvasses upright.
It's important to have things as straight and level as possible because the
camera has a tendency to mess with the corners of an art work at the best of
times.
Besides getting the frame filled with a clear, colourful and
detailed representation of the art my final goal as a photographer is to have
the photograph 'print ready' from just about any photo lab without any cropping
or fussing with image ratios.
