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If the painting has been framed behind glass, then the first thing that you need to do is to remove it from the frame. Obviously, it is better to photograph your pastel painting before you have it framed in the first place, if you can! Mount the painting taught and flat on a stiff board - secured with some masking tape around the edges. Site your painting in good, well-diffused light - preferably natural sunlight - in order to bring out the best of the colors. If you have a tripod, set your painting-up so that it is perfectly perpendicular to the camera. If you don't have a tripod, just site the painting in such a position that you can hold the camera perpendicular (or 'square-on') to it without straining yourself! This is very important. You need the camera to be 'square-on' to the painting - otherwise, your image will be distorted. With or without a tripod, your camera also needs to be pointing at the center of the painting and not located off to one side. So, perpendicular to the the surface of the painting and located so that it is pointing at the center of the thing! If you have a tripod, or if you can borrow one, it will allow you to use a longer exposure, without getting any camera shake. This, in turn, will mean that you will be working with a smaller aperture - thus helping to keep the whole painting well focused. You can even get away with photographing the painting behind glass if you use a polarizing filter but, you will always get a better photo if the painting is not framed behind glass. Oh... And don't forget to crop your photo so that it shows only the painting itself... We don't really need to see half of your furniture or the color of your wallpaper!!
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Bright but diffused light. And since I wrote my reply to the article, I have started using a tripod... This allows me to use a longer exposure (without getting any camera shake) - and a smaller aperture to keep the whole painting well focused. You can even get away with photographing the painting behind glass if you use a polarizing filter but I reckon you will generally get a better photo if the painting is not yet framed behind glass.
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The face is fine, for me. It has a unique style. If it was mine, I would go just go with the flow and call that syle my own. Clearly this was never an attempt at photo-realism. And even if it was, I would have suggested that you - or anyone else - would be better-off using a camera! I think, if you are trying to achieve another style, you would have to be a little specific as to what it is that you are trying to achieve, before anyone could really offer much in the way of useful advice? -
I don't think any mamal in mankind's sorry history has been so maligned as the wolf. Why? Is it because they have so many traits that we admire and none of the ones that we hate in ourselves? As a wise friend of mine, from India said to me: "The wolf is a noble creature."
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Hello and welcome to ArtFreaks.com! Sorry about the cumbersome registration process - it's the only way that I can keep the spammers out these days. Anyway, you are now in the New Members group and I hope you will enjoy the site!
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Connected. Sort of. Well not too bad for the UK. And no thanks to Vodafone... I will use their £3,000 bill to wipe my arse!
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Hello and welcome to ArtFreaks.com! Sorry about the cumbersome registration process - it's the only way that I can keep the spammers out these days. Anyway, you are now in the New Members group and I hope you will enjoy the site!
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Haru Bashou (Spring Tournament of the Sumo) is over. And what a tournament it was!!
Now, if the Neighbors from Hell let me, I might even be able to get on with a bit of painting... -
Congratulations to KakuRyuu on his first Championship of the Sumo. What a great Bashou and a superb result! Very Happy!
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I've finally got a computer that actually works! Properly. My 8 or 10 year old Acer TravelMate, still on Windows XP - and with a brand spanking new, all solid state hard drive. That works!
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Awesome!
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All change - AGAIN! The magical mystery tour continues... Having now cancelled my hire car for Middlesbrough, guess where we are heading next?!!
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