spence munsinger
artist & painter
What does it take to produce a reproduction of a painting? Not an image for a website, but an image of high enough quality to use as a print reproduction? At full size or as close to full size as practicable? Two measurements – two sides of the process: DPI (dots per inch) is [...]
I stayed at the Palmer House hotel in downtown Chicago for several weeks. The first night, my room was a 10′ x 12′ closet with a view of the ventilation shaft through the center of the building. I put up with that until, at 4:30 AM, the pipes in the wall started rattling and banging. [...]
The problem, The Equipment, and the How-To The problem… Grab a digital camera and take a picture of a painting. What you will end up with falls short of the images you see in art magazines, or art books. Photographs always fall short of communicating the full breadth and scope of a painting, even when [...]
Photography instructors want you to develop as a photographer without falling into the trap of believing it’s the camera. True to a point. For a rough-shod flared and grainy, unpredictably out-of-focus genre, Holga’s are the bomb. Good equipment makes it more possible to get a consistently good result. I have two cameras that would be [...]
