Jerry Levin
New member
Hi all.
Looking for some technical advice for shooting flat art. I'm not concerned with lighting or reflections (that part is working for me).
What I find extremely challenging is how to ensure that the camera is perfectly centered and square to the art piece.
No matter how carefully I eyeball things (which probably is part of the problem) the results are such that the artwork just isn't square by the time the image is in Photoshop.
I then use the various Transform menus in PS to get the artwork back to square. However, by doing that, I easily can distort or destroy the aspect ratio of the original piece I was shooting, since there's no frame of reference to work against.
Would love suggestions on how to get this portion right. Of course, it may need a really cool laser-based leveling device to measure the distance to all the corners of the flat art - but even then how do you guarantee the camera's imager (or film plane in olden days) is perfectly parallel to the artwork?
Thanks as always!
Looking for some technical advice for shooting flat art. I'm not concerned with lighting or reflections (that part is working for me).
What I find extremely challenging is how to ensure that the camera is perfectly centered and square to the art piece.
No matter how carefully I eyeball things (which probably is part of the problem) the results are such that the artwork just isn't square by the time the image is in Photoshop.
I then use the various Transform menus in PS to get the artwork back to square. However, by doing that, I easily can distort or destroy the aspect ratio of the original piece I was shooting, since there's no frame of reference to work against.
Would love suggestions on how to get this portion right. Of course, it may need a really cool laser-based leveling device to measure the distance to all the corners of the flat art - but even then how do you guarantee the camera's imager (or film plane in olden days) is perfectly parallel to the artwork?
Thanks as always!