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Author: Rick_Lee, Contributing Editor
| Put a really high-wattage bulb in it (100 or 200 watt, if the lamp will take it) and turn it on. Turn off all the other room lights, close the blinds (or better yet, wait until night). We place the lamp to the left of the camera so that the reflection of the light will not be seen by the camera... great... we get something that looks like this: |
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| Drat... the art is lit from one side so that it is lighter on one side than the other. This is known as "fall-off". This is no good. We need for it to be lit evenly. So, let's get 2 lamps and put one on the left and one on the right. We set up the lamps so that they are at 45 degree angles to the piece like this overhead view: |
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| (Note that the light from the lamps is not spilling onto the camera) |
| And we get something like this: |
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| Much, much better. If we wanted to eventually crop out the frame and mat, we might shoot the picture much closer, like this: |
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