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RE: Sketching Rembrandts Portrait of an Old Man - in Charcoal - Original content for Steemit
Thank you @offbeatbroad - i really enjoy reading your comments!
I need a better camera to take photos of these soft edged images, the old phone camera doesn't pick up enough detail, kinda clumps it together a bit.
You're welcome! I'm glad they're appreciated. :)
Ugh it is so hard to digitize artwork. If you use a scanner a lot of the quality is lost, if you use a camera the focus or color is usually off. But a good camera is definitely kinder than a phone camera. lol
I do appreciate your comments!
The best is to use an SLR camera with a nice 50mm lens, closest lens to eye focus length. Set up the artwork properly on a wall, light it the way it was meant to be lit and use a tripod at the perfect distance to get a perfect picture.
Capturing the artwork as close to how a human eye views it is about the only way to do it justice and our eyes have a specific focal point which creates a distortion that you can't get from a scanner, plus artwork isn't meant to be viewed at nose length which is what it feels like when digitised.
So much easier to just whip out the phone thou! :)
This one looks pretty bad online in this post but under the right light it looks really nice, framed it would look pretty decent.