How To Photograph Your Art without Glare

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Here's my method of photographing my art. Rather than spending $100 per painting, I prefer to do it myself and ensure I'm getting the same quality as the pro's offer.

Let me know how it works for you and if you have any suggestions to add.

I am a professional artist and often must photograph my art for updating my portfolio. Here I show you how I go about doing this. I am photographing an oil painting, 36x24 inches, painted in very dark colors which can be the most difficult to photograph due to the excessive glares.

In this video, I'm using a Canon DSLR ( amzn.to/2NvrcVc )
which allows me a lot of control rather than point-and-shoot with your phone.

I use soft box lights (these are the affordable sort)
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While they work for most things, they do still put out a bright white light that does create glare. After I photograph the painting, I will be using Adobe Photoshop to smooth out the glares. I will share how I do this in another video soon.

The painting is available for sale (at the time of this posting: June 10th, 2013) through Matt Abraxas studio (mattabraxas.com).

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