How To Photograph An Artwork

The chances of your camera having the same dimensions of your painting are slim but by cropping with photo editing software you can still fill the.

How to photograph an artwork. When copying flat art like a painting or a photograph its essential to light properly to avoid glare. Get a measuring tape to keep everything straight dont eyeball it. Its probably best to photograph a little wide and then crop the picture using a photo editing software.

You just applied the last strokes of paint to the canvas. Try to hang it at 48 high so as to avoid any color casts from the floor or ceiling. Firstly turn off the cameras flash which is possible on most cameras.

Just take it out of the frame. It is fine to use a zoom lens just make sure to look at the numbers on the lens to make sure you are zoomed to around 50mm or above. As artists the most important thing after our artwork and our good name is the photographs of our work.

Tape your picture to a wall or stand it up on an easel directly opposite a large window or a window that is receiving the most light at the time. Lights should be positioned past 45 degrees from the camera to ensure they wont reflect glare on the artwork surface back into the camera. Photograph your art outside when it is cloudy or with an overcast sky.

When you place your picture move it up and down until you find a spot where the light is the most even. Ideally the piece should take up at least 70-80 of the shot. The reason I use a 50mm lens to photograph artwork is that it has less glass internally than a compound zoom lens which means it will give you a sharper image.

Stand Straight to Take Your Photograph. If photographing a painting or 2D subject fill the frame from edge to edge. While it may seem that scanning a piece of art is a more convenient option than photographing it the latter is often an overlooked way to capture the essence of a real-life artwork that can at times be just as good as the scan of the same artwork now read how to photograph artwork.