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    The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork
    The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork
    The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork
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    The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork

    By Roger Saddington

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    Shoot your work like a pro!

    Whether you're entering your paintings in an art show, compiling your portfolio or simply documenting your art, you need flawless pictures of your work. But how do you get professional slides without buying expensive equipment or paying a photographer?

    With The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork, you'll learn how to use materials you already own to produce quality slides of your art.

    Photographer, artist and teacher Roger Saddington shows you:

       • What kind of camera, light and film to use for optimum results
       • How to capture the nature of your work, whether it's two- or three-dimensional or has other unique qualities
       • The best way to set up a studio
       • How to avoid common problems such as poor framing, camera shake, glare, or color casts
       • 


    In The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork, you'll find all the secrets and surefire methods you need to produce professional, accurate slides and prints of your art.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 24, 2003
    ISBN9781440317507
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      The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork - Roger Saddington

      the quick & easy guide to

      photographing your artwork

      the quick & easy guide to

      photographing your artwork

      Roger Saddington

      9781581802832_0005_001

      www.artistsnetwork.com

      The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork. Copyright © 2003 by North Light Books. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F&W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45236. (800) 289-0963. First edition.

      Other fine North Light Books are available from your local bookstore or art supply store or direct from the publisher.

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      Saddington, Roger,

      The quick & easy guide to photographing your artwork / Roger Saddington.

            p. cm.

      ISBN 1-58180-283-8 (pbk. : alk.paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-502-3 (EPUB)

      eISBN: 978-1-44031-750-7

      1. Photography of art. I. Title: Quick and easy guide to photographing your artwork. II. Title.

      TR657 .S24 2003

      778.9'97—dc21

      2002032136

      Edited by Amanda Metcalf

      Cover designed by Wendy Dunning

      Interior designed by Angela Wilcox

      Production coordinated by Mark Griffin

      The permissions Contributors constitute an extension of this copyright page.

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      Roger Saddington is a prominent Australian artist, designer and educator. After graduating from the National School of Design at Swinburne University in 1991, Saddington worked in graphic design for most of the 1990s. He served a five-year tenure as senior designer at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia. During this time he supervised the reproduction of artwork for major retrospectives of Rembrandt, van Gogh and Matisse and designed graphics for significant international artists such as Mike and Doug Starn.

      Saddington then spent several years developing a unique, semiabstract landscape painting style and exhibiting at prominent galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. His work is held in private collections in the United States, England and Australia. He has won several awards, including the Southern Cross Design Award and the Margery Withers Drawing Scholarship.

      Saddington currently serves as head of image studies at Swinburne University in Melbourne. He also continues to paint and photograph the landscape and exhibit regularly. He is largely self-taught as a photographer.

      To Lisa, my inspiration                  

      The list of people who saw the immediate potential for this project is rather small. This fact makes the foresight of those who did all the more extraordinary. The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork was conceived at a difficult time for me personally, and in this sense those who encouraged me along the way contributed directly to the book’s very existence. Profound thanks and love go to Lisa Chapman in this and every other regard.

      I am extremely grateful for the conspicuous goodwill and enthusiasm of David Crofts, Gina Panebianco, Hugo Leschen and Steve Rassmussen. Thanks also to Helen Skuse, whose keen eye was invaluable in honing the technical detail of the manuscript.

      Many thanks to Pam Wissman for overseeing my induction into the North Light Books stable. Her fundamental contribution to the logical flow and user-friendliness of this book transformed the manuscript into a fully functional resource. My gratitude also goes out to Amanda Metcalf, whose friendly but thorough guidance has been greatly appreciated. It has been a pleasure to work with such a professional organization.

      The artists whose work appears in this book deserve special thanks. Many went out of their way to assist with the process, and I am very pleased to see their work in print.

      One small act of kindness can reverberate beyond the original intention. I thank Beryl Clinton for giving me my first SLR camera when I was twelve.

      Finally, but perhaps most importantly, I would like to thank my father, John Saddington, whose dignity and patience I hope one day to acquire.

      Table of contents

      Introduction

      A Basic Lesson in

      Photography

      CHAPTER ONE

      Cameras, Lights

      and Accessories

      Identify the camera you own and learn what camera and equipment work best for the artwork photographer. Learn about the various kinds of light, the film that works in each setting and the surprisingly simple equipment that will get the job done

      CHAPTER TWO

      Setting Up

      Your Studio

      Set up a photography studio to photograph either two-dimensional or three-dimensional art

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      CHAPTER THREE

      Taking the

      Picture

      Master the steps to taking a perfect picture

      CHAPTER FOUR

      Troubleshooting

      So something went wrong with your pictures and you’re not quite sure what it is. You’ll find it here, along with tips for photographing artwork with metallic paint and artwork in galleries and exhibitions

      Conclusion

      Glossary

      Contributors

      Introduction

      Because you’ve picked up this book, you probably already have a specific reason to photograph art. As an artist or student, you may want to approach galleries for an exhibition, to document your collection or to send samples of your work to potential clients. The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork offers easy, inexpensive ways to create quality photographs to achieve these goals.

      For most artists, photographing artwork is a necessary evil, a difficult and expensive process that takes their minds and their money away from creating art. This need not be the case. Though the photography process may seem unpredictable and mysterious, read on, and you can quickly learn to tame the tiger.

      Cameras and film are constants in the photography equation. They behave the same way every time you use them. It’s the conditions—the lighting and your setup—that act as the variables. Artists seldom photograph their work under controlled conditions. Thus the results vary widely. With a little know-how, you can easily create the correct conditions for photographing artwork. By reading this book and following the simple instructions carefully, you soon will feel confident in your ability to create a mini photography studio wherever you like. The object of this book is to give clear, concise instructions for accurately photographing artwork—to get on with the practical side of photography without too much theory.

      The methods in this book are the products of a combination of common practice and common sense, with the latter prevailing. I’ve modified professional photography techniques here to make them compatible with artists and their bank account balances. Forget what you already know about photography, including notions of what makes a good camera and what sort of lighting is right for the job. All will be revealed, and some of the suggestions might surprise you.

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