RE: Printing from Digital Camera

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

One caveat.  Lisa  does not say what type of paintings she is photographing
(watercolors, oils, etc.) so I cannot fault Jerry for not mentioning this
caveat.  "Good 45ð lighting" is sound advice except if the painting has
texture which you wish to pick up and include in the photograph.  If it is
an oil or some other painting which has texture such as brush strokes or
impaste features, these will be lost in flat lighting and only brought out
by the existence of shadows cast by a raking side lighting , typically at an
angle of less than 45* from one direction.  Often, depending on the size of
the original, you can still get even lighting without fall off with this
method.  On larger works, you might get some fall off of lighting on the far
side.  If it is not significant, it will not have too much impact; if it is
you may have to adjust the angles, the hight,  the distance, or some other
variable.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
[mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Jerry Olson
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 10:46 AM
To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
Subject: Re: Printing from Digital Camera


Get close to the painting, use good 45ð lighting, and if your work has any
glare
and you want to eliminate it , use polarizing filters on the lights and on
the
camera. Don't use a wide angle lens when shooting it, or distortion will
result.
Most digital camera lenses probably aren't sharp enough to do a good job if
you
want large prints. If you are using a pro model, no problem.

Lisa Grothman wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm going to have my artwork photographed with a digital camera to print
on an
> Epson 3000. I'd like any feedback from anyone who has any experience with
this.
> The camera takes pictures max 7x7 @ 300dpi (max size 12MB). I was then
going to
> use Geniune Fractals to increase the picture size. Any suggestions when
having
> it photographed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa
>
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