Posting Watercolours

[killwilly]

I'v been on the forum for a few weeks now, but have only been reading the photography threads, that is until today when I started looking at some of the great watercolours. How do you post a painting, is it a photograph, or a scan?

[Jim Ford]

Can be either - you just need to keep the file size to within reasonable limits.

Jim

[killwilly]

Thanks Jim, may give it a try if I can dig out something half decent from the past. I haven't done any painting for about ten years, must get the brushes out again.

Alan.

[Deb London]

In my experience, scanning can give a much better result than photography for a water colour. I don't know what others think.

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by Deb London

In my experience, scanning can give a much better result than photography for a water colour. I don't know what others think.

You're probably right. The difficulty with photographing a painting is getting the lighting even. I usually try to do it outside, facing North when the sky is overcast.

Jim

[Martin Wilson]

I have used both with equal reslts...if you have a scanner big enough use that if not a photo it has to be, as mentioned get the light as flat as possible and as even over the whole image if you have one a tripod with the painting on a wall at the same hight, take a few images at various exposures and then it is a matter of getting the one true to the painting.
Good Luck and hope we see some of your work.

Martin