Photograph your Own Art?

Can I photograph my own Art?

Yes you can if you follow my easy to use guide.

Many artists use my upload page on the website to send me their own images for the production of Giclee prints. These are images they have had taken professionally or in some cases they send images they have produced themselves. I always offer a free assessment of images sent in this way, but some of the images uploaded are not suitable for the production of high quality Giclee prints. In many cases, a simple adjustment at the time of photographing the art would have made a world of difference, which has prompted me to produce a guide on 'How to Photograph your Art' and publish this on the website.

I am not suggesting  that you use this information to photograph art yourself in preference to using a professional service, however if it is not possible to bring your art to the studio, the information provided should enable you to produce images suitable for Giclee printing and will help you avoid some of the simple pitfalls that make an image unsuitable for print.

However you choose to photograph your art, with natural light or artificial light, the colour of the light will vary. Tungsten lights are a totally different colour to fluorescent and even the colour of your walls can have an  effect on the colour balance of the resulting image. The white balance settings on your camera will help to compensate for this, and usually work quite well, but unless your monitor is set up as mine, we will be seeing different things.

So, how do you ensure that the image you produce from your art will reproduce correctly  when you order your Giclee prints? You use a Grey Card!

The 'Grey Cards' have been produced to match my printing profiles and set up. Including the grey card within the your image area, provides me with a point of reference to determine how your image will appear in print. Matching a digital image to original art is always a challenge, even if you have the art next to you, so the inclusion of a Grey Card in the image you send me will help in producing Giclee prints that are more likely to match you art.

View the full article and order Grey Cards at  http://www.artorigination.co.uk/Booklet.htm