I think I posted this in the wrong place so I am re-posting it here.
Hi all. Hope you missed me
. I have been gone a little while. I have have a new question and what
better place to ask than here with all my shutterbug friends. My
daughter has given me a piece of her artwork, done in color pencils. I
took it to be framed and the gentleman wanted to know if she would be
willing to sell him some prints. (Yep he was that impressed with her
work). Now the big question: It is incredibly expensive to have it
turned into a digital file. Most places I have spoken with are charging
$75 for one picture. If we go this route the lose money. Since he is a
small shop he can only afford to pay $50 for each print.
My husband says wait a minute, you have that expensive camera, printer
and scanner, can't you do it? I am wondering if I could. I have a
Canon6d. What lens would you use? I also have a Canon printer that I
bought just for photos. Any idea on what ink to use. What do you think
of Giclee printing? Any helpful hints would be great too. Or should I
just say to heck with it, bite the bullet, pay the price and hope there
will be more orders in the near future to make up the cost.
stuartsbarbie wrote: I think I posted this in the wrong place so I am re-posting it here.
Hi all. Hope you missed me
. I have been gone a little while. I have have a new question and what
better place to ask than here with all my shutterbug friends. My
daughter has given me a piece of her artwork, done in color pencils. I
took it to be framed and the gentleman wanted to know if she would be
willing to sell him some prints. (Yep he was that impressed with her
work). Now the big question: It is incredibly expensive to have it
turned into a digital file. Most places I have spoken with are charging
$75 for one picture. If we go this route the lose money. Since he is a
small shop he can only afford to pay $50 for each print.
My husband says wait a minute, you have that expensive camera, printer
and scanner, can't you do it? I am wondering if I could. I have a
Canon6d. What lens would you use? I also have a Canon printer that I
bought just for photos. Any idea on what ink to use. What do you think
of Giclee printing? Any helpful hints would be great too. Or should I
just say to heck with it, bite the bullet, pay the price and hope there
will be more orders in the near future to make up the cost.
First of all: $75 for the conversion? That's inexpensive. The conversion to a digital file is a one-time deal, and then you get all the prints made that you want. How many prints is he willing to buy up front? A lot depends upon how big the print is going to be.
Once you have a file, you can get prints made at any lab for a reasonable amount, or print your own (if you have a decent pigment-based printer). But you want decent, archival paper and pigment-based ink (not dye).
If you try creating the file yourself, it's all about the lighting. do you want to capture texture from the original, or minimize it? You can take several smaller shots, and combine them, to create a larger original file, but that takes work in both PS and your lighting.
You gotta figure out revenue vs. expense. Good luck.
To get a production quality replica, you'll need perfect lighting as well. If you don't have the lighting gear, that would be additional cost, and more reason to take them up on the $75 scan they are offering.
Thank you Gary. Everyone says that's a great price and I am thinking about biting the bullet on this just to help her get started. It is a small color pencil drawing and is 9x11. One place said they could do two at once, so I told her to work on another one and that would help offset the price.
I have a 300 telephoto, a 75 landscape and a 100 close up. I personally don't think any of those will do the trick, but I told my husband I would ask the "gang".
Well I suggest that you try shooting with the 75&100mm lenses. Then post processing them to match the drawing as much as possible, and then try printing one to see how well it resembles the original. If you have a light tent I suggest you put it in there for nice even lighting, or in any room that has nice even reflective lighting. All you will really lose is some time. Just take several exposures with each lens at various settings. I like to go towards the underexposed side a bit myself to pull out colors, but then I shoot with a Nikon, and they like the under side more.
Your 100mm macro would be just fine. A longer focal length removes geometric distortion, and you'll only need to be several feet away. Or a few. The trick would be getting the axis of the lens a perpendicular as possible to the well-mounted media.
Anecdote: I took photos of LP covers (after digitizing old albums that were never converted) and I used a tripod, laid the cover on the floor, put the tripod over the jacket and pointed the camera as straight down as I could. Figured I'd fine tune and correct in Photoshop.
You'll probably still have to do some work in PS before repro. Be sure to get specifics on resolution and file format. I wouldn't let them give you a JPG.
Thanks Gary, that's kind of where I thought I might go with it. I will probably have it done for the $75, but try it myself anyway just for the learning op.
Finn wrote: Gary, good idea. But how did you work around the head on glare/reflection? Or did you not need to use any additional lighting?
You manage the light. If artificial, at an angle, or better, two lights, one on each side. Which is what I did for some watercolors. They needed some texture to show up.
The LP covers I used window light only, and a long enough shutter time for a decent exposure.
I don't think there's a single answer here, but diffusion, angle, and number all matter. Don't forget reflectors, too, and gobos.
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