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Digital capture / Time-lapse video recording of Art using Samsung SL202
On 2012-02-13 13:31:16 -0800, David Dyer-Bennet said:
writes: Digital capture /time-lapse recording of arcylic paintings Greetings, Could someone help me with simple instructions to shoot an acrylic original painting using a Samsung 10.2 MP (model SL202 if that matters?) The purpose is to e-mail a customer how their painting is coming up, not for production quality reprint (which I take to a professional photographer). I have had two challenges that mars the pictu 1. The square frame seems oblongated towards the sides (like the pics you get from cell phone capture) I'm not at all sure I understand this description. Do you mean that "straight" lines towards the edges of the frame bow outwards? (If so, the term of art is "barrel distortion"; the opposite, where they bow in, is "pincushion distortion".) I have a feeling that Uma Sundaram is describing is a "Keystone" effect where the top and bottom edges of a rectangular frame are not the same length. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_effect This can be corrected with the lens correction filter in Photoshop, adjusting the vertical and/or horizontal perspective. However it might be best to ensure that the camera is positioned center and perpendicular to the subject painting. There are quite a number of examples of time lapse work of this sort to be found on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...1108l0.4.2l6l0 or http://tinyurl.com/7hk269v Try different zoom settings; the degree of such distortion in most zoom lenses varies with the focal length. There's likely to be some length at which it doesn't have much of any. Alternatively, it can be corrected in software. Photoshop (perhaps Elements too), PTLens, many others. (Look for "lens correction" and "barrel", if nothing comes up that program may well not handle it.) 2. The acrylic paint surface creates a diffused glare -- this is especially true if I finish the painting with matt or gloss varnish to seal the painting. Any surface has a range of angles in which it gives specular reflections (glarey-type reflections). If the surface is reasonably flat, just arrange that the lighting is at angles to the camera where it doesn't glare at the camera (this may require covering windows, etc.). If the surface is very uneven with bits facing every which way, this is much harder, but you describe a kind of overall glare, which suggests a flatter surface. And what I know of acryllic painting tends towards a flatter surface (than modern uses of oils for example). Yeah, if you plan to take frequent, even constant, pictures documenting the creation of the painting, it would be a real total pain to have to mess with the lighting for each picture. Sorry about that. I don't know any magic way to make glare go away. Well, except the following: A more drastic approach, and I suspect even less useful for the documentary purpose you describe, is to light the artwork only with two lights, out to the sides at 45 degrees to the surface, each equipped with a polarizing filter, oriented the same way. Then put a polarizing filter on the lens of the camera, oriented to block the glares from the polarized light. The diffuse reflection will not be polarized and will get through. (Skipping the video question, no good answer here.) -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Digital capture / Time-lapse video recording of Art using Samsung SL202
Savageduck writes:
On 2012-02-13 13:31:16 -0800, David Dyer-Bennet said: writes: Digital capture /time-lapse recording of arcylic paintings Greetings, Could someone help me with simple instructions to shoot an acrylic original painting using a Samsung 10.2 MP (model SL202 if that matters?) The purpose is to e-mail a customer how their painting is coming up, not for production quality reprint (which I take to a professional photographer). I have had two challenges that mars the pictu 1. The square frame seems oblongated towards the sides (like the pics you get from cell phone capture) I'm not at all sure I understand this description. Do you mean that "straight" lines towards the edges of the frame bow outwards? (If so, the term of art is "barrel distortion"; the opposite, where they bow in, is "pincushion distortion".) I have a feeling that Uma Sundaram is describing is a "Keystone" effect where the top and bottom edges of a rectangular frame are not the same length. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_effect In which case "keystone" and "perspective correction" are the keywords I'd use to find stuff on it. Or just arrange to have the camera square to the frame; however, having the camera NOT square to the frame may help resolve the glare problem. Might be easier to shoot from an angle and correct the perspective later. Problems tend to interact; sigh. This can be corrected with the lens correction filter in Photoshop, adjusting the vertical and/or horizontal perspective. However it might be best to ensure that the camera is positioned center and perpendicular to the subject painting. I see great minds are running in the same rut again. -- David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info |
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