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Photographing Paintings


Someone has asked me to shoot some of their paintings. He has expressed interest in both slides as well as having the images scanned to a CD for e-mailing, etc. I was hoping to shoot at various settings, view the results before taking it further. Can the lab folks scan from slide film?


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December 10, 2004

 

Bob Cammarata
  Yes, slides can scan well. Shoot the paintings with a fine-grain slide film (bracketing your exposure settings), and send only the best in to the lab to be scanned.


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December 11, 2004

 

Mark O'Brien
  In addition -- are you shooting under tungsten lighting or flash? If you are using tungsten lighting, make sure you use either the correct color correction filters recommended for the type of film you are using, or use a slide film labeled for use under tungsten lights, such as Ektachrome 160T.
If you don't correct for the lighting, your friend's paintings will have the wrong color balance.


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December 15, 2004

 
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