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Camera and Settings – How to Shoot your Art II

July 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

Camera

1) Use a digital camera: Either a point-and-shoot or better, an SLR (single lens reflex). Borrow or rent one if you don’t have one. It doesn’t have to be the top of the line.

2) Optimal megapixels: Between 5 and 12 megapixels will give you optimal results, though 5 megapixels is probably more than enough. (I’ve shot images with 3 megapixels in the early days of digital and was perfectly happy with them – even the cheapest point and shoot camera will give you more than that to start with now).

3) Shoot highest quality JPEG: Many photographers will disagree with me here and while it is true that the RAW format captures more digital information giving you a higher quality digital negative to work with, for the purposes of most non-photography artists, the additional work and time needed to work with RAW images is not necessary. Set your camera to the highest JPEG setting in quality and shoot. When you upload the images to your computer for post-production, save them as a TIF or PSD (Photoshop) file type for the edits and you will be fine.

4) Manual zoom: You can use a manual zoom that can zoom to 50mm but only go as far as the mid-range of the zoom to prevent optical distortions on the edges.

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How to Shoot your Art

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