Recent content by JamieB

Thank you both for the advice, we do seem to be having problems with photographing sketches that are on white paper, the centre third is white but we get shadows on the side thirds for some reason. Glad you like the paintings. :)

Hi all, Just to let you know i managed to succeed in getting the images very close to the origionals, feel free to look at the website for how barker should look lol. terryjones-art.co.uk Also i am now on a photography course so hopefully i'll be able to show you all some of my own...

Well done James, hope you have many more great shoots :)

That looks pretty close to the original painting though the painting is a little less greener. The lights were normal household lamps with 100w bulbs. The shot was taken raw (NEF). The painting is about 20" by 24". Would getting a couple of tall lamps and some halogen bulbs improve the...

Hi all, heres my questions we have been taking photo's of my friends oil paintings and we can get the detail but the colour seems to be a bit iffy, we are using standard lights and not much natural light is around. Here are the settings we are using at present: iso 2500 26mm 1/60...

Thank you again for your replies, can i ask another question? do you convert the raw image after editing? if so to what file type? or do we send it to printers as a nef image? Also we cannot get paintshop 6 to open a .nef file, we tried to update it, but we just get an error. We cant even...

Thank you David, would you be able to recommend a program that would be upto the take, but doesnt cost extreme amounts of money please? Thank you all for your replies, much appreciated.

Thanks richard, we never messed with any deep settings, just the basics, WB, ISO etc. And my friend has Paint shop pro, is that any good?

The camera does have a software disk, but we haven't installed it as we think it may just be driver for camera to connect. My friend does have Photoshop, but i think it may be an older one, but not sure. We cant seem to open the raw images within his photoshop.

Thank you for the questions Richard, we were just experimenting last night (and early hours of the morning lol) so we had the painting resting on his fireplace in the front room, with 2 lamps (1 either side of painting) and camera on tripod. not perfect i know, but we were experimenting. I do...

Thank you Simon, that was quick. One last question, how do i go about editing and converting the raw image once i have put it onto pc please? I know its a uber noob question, sorry :(

Hi all as you may be aware i am trying to photograph an oil painting for my friend using a Nikon D5000, the thing we have noticed is when we take a photo as a jpeg, the green seems to go brown, but when we take a photo and leave it as a raw image it keeps all the colour nicely, but a bit dark...

Thanks for the reply, settled for a Nikon D5000. As a complete beginner I'm a bit cluesless about stuff like polarizing etc. What does cross polarization mean and what do you mean when you say polarizing gels for the lighting. What sort of macro lens would i need? the guy in the photo shop...

Hi all, my friend is looking at getting a Nikon D5000 to take photos of his paintings at a size of about A2 and is wondering if this camera would be upto the job and anyone have any clue to which lens he should get? Many thanks Jamie

Thank you for the replies so far, keep em coming. :) My friend is thinking of a Nikon D90, but wonders if its a bit excessive, also he has no idea what lighting or lighting arrangements would be best and what lens too. I've just spotted a D80 for £300 (used), would that be adequate? Scanner...