All your artwork. Kelli. Geez. Amazed I am always. Mmmm, colors. I wish I could appreciate it in real life.
Is there any chance I could get your address from you? Not to come stalk you, unfortunately. I was thinking I might send you some baked edibles, if you're cool with the idea. :D
EV is probably killing the color. Unfortunately, particularly with digital cameras, the EV kind of compresses the color range available to the camera on a particular exposure. Only way to bring things back is to hand tweak or run multiple exposures of the same shot, each one tuned to a different part of the picture.
Other problem you're hitting: a digital camera grabs RGB, which is additive color. Your painting is using subtractive color. The two don't have the same color gamut, unfortunately.
TL;DR: Scanning and cameras will always rape paintings. Use a scanner to reduce that effect, but expect that it will always be there. Hell, consider that a selling point of the original painting when selling it to people instead of prints! ;-)
I think I'm going to eventually get them all scanned on this huge mega scanner that you have to feed the painting into. I'm tired of this shit!
Also, the flash that I use is a detachable one, and I had it aimed for the ceiling so it wouldn't make me mega crazy white. I just notice that there is a vast difference in color when I use the detachable flash (vibrant but off color), the one that the camera actually comes with (not even worth it), and no flash. When I don't use a flash, I just have to make sure the lighting is good, which is never the case in my apartment.
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i was pretty pissed while painting it because i was forced to do it on the floor. D:
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Is there any chance I could get your address from you? Not to come stalk you, unfortunately. I was thinking I might send you some baked edibles, if you're cool with the idea. :D
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and i'll facebook you my address. feel free to stalk me! :D
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Other problem you're hitting: a digital camera grabs RGB, which is additive color. Your painting is using subtractive color. The two don't have the same color gamut, unfortunately.
TL;DR: Scanning and cameras will always rape paintings. Use a scanner to reduce that effect, but expect that it will always be there. Hell, consider that a selling point of the original painting when selling it to people instead of prints! ;-)
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Also, the flash that I use is a detachable one, and I had it aimed for the ceiling so it wouldn't make me mega crazy white. I just notice that there is a vast difference in color when I use the detachable flash (vibrant but off color), the one that the camera actually comes with (not even worth it), and no flash. When I don't use a flash, I just have to make sure the lighting is good, which is never the case in my apartment.
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