Photographing Artwork You will need to photograph your artwork in order to share it with other individual who are participating in this course. Taking good photographs of your artwork is important so other people can understand what you have made. This guide is intended to help you identify and fix some of the most common problems with photographing your artwork. It is not difficult to take good pictures of your artwork if you are careful and attentive to what you are doing. Most common problems are the same for photographing both two and threedimensional work. Above you will see a sample diagram of a lighting setup that will serve you well for most situations. Two lights are angled at 45 degree angles to the artwork, with the camera between the lights. This setup will give you a fairly even light on the artwork. If you are a photographing a sculpture or other threedimensional artwork and feel like that setup is not giving you enough of a sense of the volume of your object you can try the setup on the right, replacing one of the light sources with a white piece of paper or foam core to reflect light into the shadows cast by the remaining light. An example of a good photograph of a piece of twodimensional artwork is shown below.
