How to Photograph Artwork, Part 2: How to Set Up a Home Studio & Shoot Your Artwork

How to photograph your artwork at home to a professional standard using a 2 light set-up. A video in 3 parts. Updates below

Part 2:
How to set up your camera, including focus and exposure
How to set up a photography studio in your home using 2 lights
How to use cross polarisation to remove glare from oil paintings

Parts 1 and 3:
Part 1:    • How to Photograph Artwork, Part 1:  W...  
Part 3:    • How to Photograph Artwork, Part 3: Ho...  

UPDATE

As per update in Part 1 - if your work is sculptural, you should consider getting softboxes or translucent umbrellas to soften the shadows.

You can use an iPad to monitor your shots using Canon Camera Connect. It’s not as good as using tethered capture on a monitor though, because you’re viewing a jpeg, not a raw file, on an uncalibrated screen.

Whilst you can adjust the colours in post when shooting raw, it’s still good practice to use lights with a good CRI rating and to correct your white balance at the start.

Move your lights as far back as you can, in order to light your piece as evenly as possible - light falloff reduces with distance.

Make sure to remove the reflector, if your light has one, otherwise it won’t light your piece evenly.

I was wrong to say that phone camera don't produce bokeh - they do, just not very much.

There are so many great resources for learning about the technical aspects of photography - never stop learning! Adorama TV is a good place to start, especially for lighting (link below),

Links:

The Exposure Triangle: https://photographylife.com/what-is-e...
Adorama TV:    / adoramatv