How to Photograph Your Artwork – January 31, 2015

 

 

Register today Non-Members $75.00 USDMembers $67.00 USD

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Saturday, 10 am – 2:30 pm

Pennsylvania Guild Center of American Craft, Lancaster  (Directions)

Instructor: John Benigno

Skill Level: Open to all

 

 

Getting ready for the craft fair season or revamping your online portfolio for the new year? Prepare with better photographs than even before, and stop paying other people for something that you can do yourself. This workshop is divided into two parts. First, you will learn how to photograph your artwork – both two and three dimensional work. We will cover using inexpensive lighting equipment, including umbrellas, and a tripod, which lenses are best for copy work, how to maximize lens sharpness, how to square your artwork with your camera, shooting through glass, using a light box, and minimizing glare and reflections.

The second half will concentrate on setting up a digital workflow, different types of digital files (RAW, TIF, JPEG), non-destructive Photoshop techniques to improve your files – layers, straightening, cropping, improving contrast, spotting, color correction, and sharpening files, etc.

Among other venues, John’s work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, the Magidson Gallery in New York City, the Washington County Arts Council Gallery in Hagerstown, MD, the Keystone Gallery in Lancaster, the Lancaster Art Museum, and the Print Center in Philadelphia. It has been collected by the Berman Museum, the Woodmere Museum, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Lancaster Museum, The Noyes Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania. My photographs have been published in “Camera Arts,” “The Calumet Newsletter for Photographic Artists,” and the “Antietam Review.”
 
His photographs have been accepted into juried exhibits at the Berman Museum, Woodmere Museum, the University of Delaware, the Chatauqua Art Association, Villanova University, the Art Association of Harrisburg, and the Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey, to name a few. And, “Chappy Cabanas and Edgartown Light” was on loan to the American Embassy in Kuwait, as part of the State Department’s Art in Embassies program.