My old man's a dustman an artist. He's rather good, and I suggested that we record his paintings for posterity in digital format.
This poses a problem - how does one go about providing favourable lighting for photographing a painting?
I have not tried to photograph paintings before so this was rather a new challenge. I felt it important to give good, neutral white light as far as possible and to distribute that light evenly around the painting.
A few months ago I bought some colour cycling LED xmas lights - five metres worth! The LED strip came complete with an IR remote control with a colour selection feature that lets you pick from 16 colours or so.
I built a rectangular framework out of MakerBeam parts and cable-tied the LED strip to the frame so that they all face the same direction with a fan out pattern to illuminate the canvas.
Finally I rigged up the framework to attach to my tripod's leg using a scope clamp. Long story short here are some pictures...
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This poses a problem - how does one go about providing favourable lighting for photographing a painting?
I have not tried to photograph paintings before so this was rather a new challenge. I felt it important to give good, neutral white light as far as possible and to distribute that light evenly around the painting.
A few months ago I bought some colour cycling LED xmas lights - five metres worth! The LED strip came complete with an IR remote control with a colour selection feature that lets you pick from 16 colours or so.
I built a rectangular framework out of MakerBeam parts and cable-tied the LED strip to the frame so that they all face the same direction with a fan out pattern to illuminate the canvas.
Finally I rigged up the framework to attach to my tripod's leg using a scope clamp. Long story short here are some pictures...
