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The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger Saddington
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 384966
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1581802838
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.997
UPC: 035313321511
EAN: 9781581802832
ASIN: 1581802838
Publication Date: May 8, 2003
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Product Description
Even artists with limited photographic experience and equipment can produce quality reproductions of their artwork with Roger Saddington's easy-to-use book. This guide shows artists how to take satisfying, accurate photos without spending a lot of time or money. Readers will learn how to: - Get good results with the photography equipment they already own - Master the relationship between film type and light source - Avoid pitfalls with processing labs - Present slides and photos professionally - Set up their own simple photography studio to control conditions - Identify at a glance what went wrong with a photo Good slides or photos are essential for entering art competitions, keeping records and presenting a portfolio. Artists will appreciate the book's easy steps and common-sense approach to the photography process.
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Great Visual Reference ... Too General with Information May 29, 2004
J. Wong (San Francisco, CA)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
This is a decent book on photographing artwork -- but not the the most comprehensive. The strengths of this book are that Mr. Saddington (1) discusses the use digital media, and (2) makes the process of photographing artwork very user-friendly by providing great visual references throughout. The user-friendly aspect is the book's strongest selling point, especially for artists who are new or novices at photography, or visually oriented (i.e., no patience for reading instructions that come with few or no pictures). Mr. Saddington's book provides pictures of what makes a bad negative exposure/photograph, and provides a concise explanation for these results, and does the same for an example of a good negative exposure/photograph. He also provides illustrations of setting up equipment and artwork for photographing. The weakness of this book lies in the general details provided ... unfortunately, Mr. Saddington provides a limited amount of helpful hints and leaves out specific details for for problem shooting ... I base this opinion on my comparison of this book with a book called "Photographing Your Artwork" by Russell Hart. If you buy Mr. Saddington's book, I'd recommend supplementing it with the purchase of Mr. Hart's book. The two books complement each other. Where Mr. Saddington's book lacks in details, Mr. Hart's book fills in the information gaps. On the other hand, Mr. Hart's book is very text heavy and has very few illustrations ... so if you're a visually-oriented person, Mr. Saddington's book would easily compensate in the area of illustrating this very important process. Again, Mr. Saddington's book is decent, but it should be used as a supplemental reference, especially for the visually-oriented person.
 Not enough information February 19, 2004
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Actually I give this book zero stars. It is one of those books that pads the pocket of the author but is stingy with the information it gives. It is too general and does not really deal with problem solving the technicalities involved with taking slides of your own art. I wanted to know on which side of a slide to place a mask. The book failed to give this important piece of information. I found that I had already bought a more comprehensive book, so I feel that I wasted my money buying this book.
 Disappointingly out of date. June 26, 2007
Gregg A. Puckett (Southern CA, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although the information given was essentially correct, it was not up to date regarding use of digital cameras.
This book should have been thoroughly updated before being reprinted.
Regards,
Gregg Puckett
Outdated, bad advice, useless June 17, 2008
Eric Vanasse (Montreal, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author recommend using halogen work lamps that produce extremely uneven lighting with a stripe of strong horizontal light right in the middle of the works photographed. Even if using 4 of these lamps, there is no way to get even lighting on the works.
Also the digital photography discussed is totally outdated and useless.The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork
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