Attempting to pick your brains!
I have been making some Giclee prints for a local oil painting artist. Suddenly she think she needs to build up the textures on her paintings to give a sculpted look. This has caused problems scanning so I sent the image to a friends company to have a high resolution shot made and have been working with the digital file. Where the relief is greatest there is so much reflection that it looks like a crack or sometimes a bad reflection when printed. I think if that were done in natural light it would not be so reflective. Most of her work is done 16 X 20 inches.
I would like to set this up myself and save the bucks involved with sending it out. I have an 8 megapixel DSLR that takes good shots. Does anyone have any advice on how best to do this? Is 8 MP enough? Do anyone know of a tutorial on how to build a box to enable shooting? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jac
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def. an artform to photographing artwork.
to cut glare we side light... (w/ tungsten and boxes shooting w/ a 4x5 w/ scanback in a studio)
although if its heavily textured that will create shadows
in which case we diffuse the light to the walls ceiling and floor
and use 4x8 sheets of white foam core to reflect light around evenly.
this cuts shadows giving a more natural lighting
8mp is cutting it close
but for what you are doing size wise you could probably get away with it
though you will compromise tonal transitions and color blends within the piece.
the MP rating is relative to the cameras ability to distinguish color..
so a lower rating means less variant color coming through.
which = less range when it comes down to printing.
does this make sense?
I really need to go to bed... the computer glare is burning my eyes