Traditional medium, thick hues and texure - framed in black. HD videos are more ideal, given that natural light can be such a kaleidoscope for paintings - often bringing hues not shown in artificial light, to the forefront depending on the angle that they are captured from. It is very interesting to see how angle impacts the potential capture of color.
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| 'Harmony' |
Lighting is a funny thing. Position your camera too far away or at the wrong angle, or under the wrong kind of lighting; your painting looks washed out and dull or the color is off or the frame looks curved etc.
Reposition your painting, tilt it alittle to the right or the left or at a different angle and voila after 789 years, you captured how it actually appears. Cameras are tricky and possibly evil but scanners, (good scanners) are simple. Any image that I share of my paintings are scanned images. When I scan my art, I am usually very relieved that the actual colors that I use are shown on screen and that the texture comes through and all of the tones that most cameras cannot pick up, are brought to the forefront and shown on screen. Mind you, ''screens'' are a whole other topic and depending on any given person's device settings, colors can be altered. There are so many different devices these days that folks use to browse the web and with every device comes a plethora of different settings and a spectrum of optional screen brightness or colorization intensities (which can impact viewing art).
I was taking new photos of my florals earlier and saw the beautiful sunlight kissing the surface of this painting. It actually isn't a good practice to display paintings in direct sunlight but fortunately, I had this painting laying there on the table only briefly. I couldn't help but share this photo because it's shows how textured 'Harmony' actually is.