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July 05, 2005
Another Skill to Cultivate
I have to develop my capacity to photograph art, I guess; my casual pictures of Pippa’s canvases falls radically short of the power of the images themselves. The photographs miss the texture and richness of the oils; I think Pip likes oil paint in part because she can mix colors without entirely blending them — an effect it’s hard to capture with just an offhand photo. Lighting and color balance affect the presentation, too.
Once I almost had a job doing art photography as a work-study position in college. It seemed so direly tedious, though: line up the page on the stand, check the lighting, snap the shutter, again, again, again. No composition; no decisive moment. Now I look back on that relatively automated set-up and grumble that I have a hard time reproducing the correct circumstances time after time.
Anyway, two more Pippa canvases today, with several watercolors to come soon (I can scan those — oh, joy!).
Posted by AKMA at July 5, 2005 07:30 PM | Threadorati
