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If you are an owner of a work of art like paintings, drawings and sculpture, you might want to photograph them. Of course, it is always nice to have a digital image of your art collection, but you will also need it for the homeowner's insurance.
You might also find a need to photograph a painting or a finding from a flea market if you want to identify the value of the object and want to send a picture to an appraiser or any other interested party. On the other hand, you might need a photo is you want to sell a art work and want to have an attractive shot to get the interest of different buyers.
There are many reasons why a person would want to photograph paintings, drawings and sculptures. And, you do not even need your own SLR or DSLR camera. You can get reasonably good photographs just by following the steps mentioned below.
The first thing that you need to thing about is how compose your shot. Make sure that your camera is at a right angle to the piece that you want photographed. It if is hanging on the wall, you need to be in the center to point the lens squarely at it. This way you will avoid a clockwise or anti-clockwise square. The lens and the piece have to be on the same parallel. Do not think about moving the viewfinder up, down or sideways.
If the piece is large, like a painting, the best alternative is to make piece lie down on the floor. Then you can shoot is from above as you look down at it. Of course, you would have to use a chair or step ladder depending how large the piece of art it. If you rest the piece against the wall, you will end up distorting the picture.
If you are taking a picture of a 3-D object, then you should place yourself at eye level. This could involve kneeling. So, be prepared for it.
Natural indirect light is the best. Make sure the room where you are taking the picture has windows that let in indirect sunlight. However, make sure that the sun rays do not hit the object as it would create a glare. Also, you would be ruining the art work by placing it in direct sunlight.
Supposing you do not have windows that let in indirect sunlight, you can use artificial lighting. Two or more light sources of equal wattage should do the trick, and they should at 45 degrees to the piece of art. This will avoid shadows falling on the piece.
Even if you do not have a tripod, you can use both your hands to hold the camera, draw both your elbows to your midpoint until they are nearly touching each other, or you can hold your breath and then click the picture. All these steps will help to minimize motion that tends to distort pictures.
Above all, make sure that you turn the flash off. You should only use the flash you have mastered the technique of bouncing off the flash from the center surface of the object. If the piece has a shiny area, the flash will highlight it making the end result of the image unrecognizable. The bright spot will not look anything like what it is actually present on the piece.
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Nina Winters Awarded Commission for Quarter Million Dollar Sculpture
What do Clearwater, Florida and New Ipswich, New Hampshire have in common?The undeniably attention worthy sculptor, Nina Winters.
The art world’s new and important arrival has been discovered by aesthetic savants for her monumental sculptures.
The internationally collected sculptor has just won a 1/4 million dollar commission in the State of Nevada. The project is for a 10 foot high sculpture titled "Exhilaration".
I had the pleasure of interviewing Nina and getting personal tours through her studios.
This article is the first of three in a series about recent major commissions by the sculptor.
When I asked Nina to tell me about this recent commission, she said, “Although this sculpture is basically minimalist, I have paid a great deal of attention to detail. The reach of the hands into the sky reflects my philosophy that man can be and do far more than what he is led to believe.”
The sculpture will be the centerpiece of a major new 2 billion dollar complex. The development will break ground in June-July 2007.
The sheer scale of her latest work,’ Exhilaration’, and the environment in which it will be installed, are integral elements in creating the visual excitement for the viewer.
During the tour of her beautiful waterside studio in Clearwater, Florida, I asked Nina why she had chosen to work in bronze. She explained, “ I create human emotions, hopes and truths and make them in bronze. I want them to last through time.”
I traveled north and met with Nina in her self-built studio in the woods of New Hampshire, I was intrigued by the ecologically minded sculptor’s commitment to our planet’s and our planet’s peoples’ physical, emotional and spiritual health.
She showed me over 40 sculptures she had created that were ready to be enlarged to monumental proportions.
She spoke easily about her feelings. “Even in my early years, I knew that we had to work together to change the world. I started by trying my hand at building an ecological studio/home in the woods. I built the house with the help of a few friends and still use it in the summers. It’s quite simple to use solar power and we built the house with only a chain saw and lots of work.”
She continued, “As I grew in stature as an artist, I wanted to positively affect more people. I try to imbue my work with so much emotion that it will flow from me into the bronze and communicate at the other end to the viewer.”
I asked why she decided to make her works large. She replied, “My work was purchased by many collectors, but I still felt the need to make monumental works that would be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. I am thrilled that this is happening.”
Working in her studios is practically an obsession. Her work is large both visually and emotionally. Her sculptures convey the heroic power and excitement of the human potential.
Her clients include corporate officials from Paine Webber, the Wall Street Group and Hiram Walker. Her work is in major collections in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and England and she is in the private collections of many celebrities including musicians, music producers, arrangers and film producers.
Her bronze work was featured in the Paramount film “Kiss the Girls” starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.
She has been honored with awards for excellence in sculptural concept and design.
All her sculptures can be commissioned in any size and are unique solutions for home, corporate and hotel architecture.
She is also working on a new monumental sculpture in Clearwater that will be installed near her southern studio in a development on the locally loved “Pinellas Trail”, a long fought for bicycling, running and rollerblading trail that connects many of the nearby areas.
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Article by Jayden Adams, Editor-in-Chief International Newswire
For more information about the article, go to Bronzz Studios or Nina Winters.
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Nimoy exhibit causes stir at Mass MoCA
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Actor Leonard Nimoy’s new photographic work, "Secret Selves," peers into the hidden alleys of personal psyches in giant-sized prints bursting with color -- these are fantasies hidden no more, but screaming to the world from gallery walls.
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