Photographing art

Every artist needs to keep visual records of their work. In this tutorial I'll explain exactly how to take great photos of your artwork, and cover a few basic steps in Photoshop that will get your images ready either for print or for uploading onto the internet.

You should always photograph your art. Here are some simple steps to help even if you don't have a big budget or know how.

“Pieza Madre” is a deeply personal and powerful series of images by Basque photographer Andoni Beristain.

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Do you want to take high-quality photos of your artwork to make fine art prints? Here's how I do it from home.

Photography is all about perspective - the person behind the camera can use their imagination to tell different stories about a subject from a variety of angles. Perspective gives depth to an image and can make a two-dimensional photograph feel like a three-dimensional scene.

Photograph within a photograph. Narrative family project about time- A Level photography students work. Handmade. Burned and collaged.

We are surrounded with image worthy experiences and things all the time, but how can you actually start seeing them as such?

By Andy Derrick in Art Business Advice > Selling Art Online Anytime I talk to artists, I almost ALWAYS hear the following question: “How do you get high-res images of artwork? I have such a hard time getting good quality images!” The truth is, for most emerging artists, getting high-quality digital images is either too expensive or too difficult. Usually this means going another route, such as photographing their art themselves or finding a friend who has some knowledge of photography…

New York’s art world seems to be experiencing a newfound love affair with art made by hand — art that has, dare I say, “craft” in it.