How to photograph an oil painting for reproduction

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[ofiravphotographer]

excellent, all the data I looked for, including how to finally get the polarized sheets in place in front of the lights, thank you!

[stuffstuffstuffyay]

I would love a longer video on this. I know your other one is good, but this seems updated

[jilliancrawford]

Ngl I was just gonna make paintings small enough to fit on my scanner at home, but I think this allows for more canvas sizes!

[michaelguy]

Dude, I’d recommend flash over constant led lights. I’ve done tests.

[alyzerine]

This is the one video whose steps have worked for me for 30 years. Critical for shiny works in acrylic and oils. For gold leaf and other media that requires a shininess, I put up a third light behind camera. Low value colors tend to drop off too much, so in Photoshop Levels, I drag center control 10 to 20%, Saturation -20%. Sorry I do not know controls of LR program. For artwork to be reproduced by printing I bring Levels of highlights to minimum. Printing is a whole other step: if file is left as is in Photoshop Doctrine or Tiff and printed on Epson Archival, reproduction is faithful. If doctrine is changed to JPG, Epson changes color to less saturation.

Photographing my own artwork of oils atop silver gelatin requires that I do NOT use polarizers.

[Newme]

this is so cool! Thanks for this. Would love to do this myself one day.

[HelmetVanga]

what are the light devices? who makes them? please, Thanks a great deal.