I shot some photos of a painters work the other day. This was the second time he has asked me to do this for him. It is an honor, and it is tough! These are not interpretations, they are for his portfolio. He shows it to potential clients. Maybe someday he will use the images for prints, so I have to be accurate with color and exposure. And accurate exposure is not always what the meter says. It means showing brush strokes, maintaining detail across a very wide range of tones and colors. Its slightly subjective - I can use color chips, which I do for basic color rendition, but getting the accurate final is a bit of an art. Add into that, the paintings and frames are rectangular, with 90 degree corners and sometimes long straight edges. Lighting is tough, again, and I have mostly the right stuff without getting into esoteric, special purpose polarizing filters for the actual lights, or long color corrected fluorescent fixtures. Being off a few inches causes hot spots in the image - the top might be brighter than the bottom, or any of a gazillion other problems. The hardest part is getting the image centered on the axis of the lens, keeping it level with the camera and planar to the camera sensor. I dont have a specialized easel to do that, so we did our best. Human error .... So here I am, nudging corners into place, cloning bits of frame to cover the easel where neither of us noticed it had slipped over the edge of the frame, and trying to make up for being slightly off axis to the lens. I will be figuring out a self-centering easel for the future. This is HARD stuff.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:41:58 +0000
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