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Tutorial on how to photograph your art either with digital cameras, usual 135-film or complex studio settings using flashes and middle format cameras. ...
http://artlinkswap.org/photographing_art.shtml
Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College. Large images with numerous details. Free for educational use....
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm
Sculptures have many shapes, sizes and finishes. They can be indoor pieces on a tabletop or elaborate outdoor sculptures created by well-known artists. They can live among the flowers in a garden or in a corner in a museum....
http://www.ehow.com/how_5106217_photograph-sculpture.html
Shadows and subtle tonalities are especially important when photographing sculpture, which needs to be immediately seen as three-dimensional. When photographing 3-D work, use a neutral gray or white background. ...
http://www.dallasartsrevue.com/resources/How-to-Photo-Art.shtml
Use a bended backdrop (cardboard), not too dark. Avoid distracting background, as shown to the right. Do not use direct flash. If you use flashlight: bounce it against a white wall. Use a sturdy tripod, especially if there is not enough light....
http://www.lwe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/fhy/vill-how-to.htm
You only have to take a stroll in any park, public garden or around a government building and you're bound to find a statue or two. They don't move, so provide an easy target and most are so beautifully sculptured that several varied photographs can be taken....
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/How-to-photograph-statues-4787
Photographing sculpture presents some unique difficulties not encountered when photographing two-dimensional art like paintings or drawings. You need to make sure that the sculpture is properly illuminated, but you also want to use the shadows to show some of the depth...
http://www.ehow.com/list_7492424_lighting-techniques-photographing-sculpture.html
Otis College Faculty Chris Warner demonstrates how to Digitally Photograph your own Three-Dimensional Art, specifically, sculpture in both artificial and natural light settings. He takes the viewer carefully step by step through the procedure...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNbVdNKaBo
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum offers unparalleled resources for the study of American art. The American Sculpture Photograph Study Collection contains 2,416 photographs and photomechanical reproductions of American sculpture, dating from the late 1890s to 1940....
http://americanart.si.edu/research/programs/archive
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Works of Art. Rodin—The Eve, 1907, Edward Steichen, Autochrome. Rodin—The Thinker, 1902. Edward Steichen, Gum bichromate print. More...
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_phsc.htm
The biggest tip I can give is to learn how to use the camera you have. It took much trial and error until I got the exposure and white balance settings correct for the lighting in my room. Using the manual-focus instead of the auto-focus for sculptures...
http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=5148
This article summarizes what I’ve learned in the past few months about how to take excellent slides of medium sized "table top" 3D art. This means vessels, sculptures, similar craft and artwork from about 10 to 20" in height, width, and or depth....
http://www.cjmorgan.com/articles-for-artists/photographing_3d_artwork.htm
