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Haha, thanks. It's funny because really, the place where I had this idea (and which has a view similar to this) is not particularly pleasant.
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Fantastically good! Ad lamplight is very romantic!
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I really like this one and appreceate the streetlight in the corner
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very nice! the lamp is actually my favorite part but I understand what you mean. It doesn't really fit into the rest of the painting.
Beautiful landscape. It's very realistic
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I agree about the good looking tree silhouettes, the sky is also magnificent.
I'd like to ask, how did you photograph your picture so professionaly? When I tried to photograph my own canvas I drew some time ago it came out skewed
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Thanks!
I'm glad it looks professional! I'm not a professional by any means, so you should be able to get something looking like this too.
The only things I really did here were:
- I waited until the middle of the day so that the room was pretty bright without having to shine any lights onto the painting, so I didn't have to worry too much about shadows and glare.
- I placed the painting so that the brightest light source was not directly behind or in front of me, but cast the light at an angle onto the painting (in this case, behind me and to the left). That reduces shadow and glare even more.
- Hold it kind of straight and hope for the best. Haha. And then take a lot of pictures and pick the best one.
Skewed as in tilted, or distorted? If it gets distorted around the edges, like it's wider in the middle than it should be ("barrel distortion", that's caused by your lens, and there are really only a couple ways to fix that. One is to take pictures from further away, so that the painting doesn't come so close to the edges (that kind of distortion gets worse the further from the center you get) and then crop out the edges. The other way I know of ("camera correction/recalibration") is super complicated and requires some complex math (you could determine mathematically the exact distortion of your lens and then make a computer program that corrects that exactly). I've never done that, because it would take me weeks to do, haha.
If you just mean that it's tilted, I have two fairly easy fixes for that. One is to just take a dozen pictures and pick the best one (that's what I did here... I just took a bunch of photos until I got a few that looked straight, and then copied them onto my computer and picked the best one). The other is to take the picture from a little further away (so that there's a bunch of background behind the painting that you'll need to crop out) and then straighten it and crop it using Photooshop (or some equivalent). Here's a tutorial for that: [link]
I usually go the lazy route and just hit Ctrl-T to bring up the free transform tool, and just straighten it until it looks pretty good. Then the crop tool to crop it. But the above tutorial would give a more exactly straight picture.
Hope that helps!
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Ok thanks for the help!
My images got distorted as you describe - they are slightly wider in the middle than at the top and bottom. I had to cut out the protruding parts to get a rectangular image, fortunately they did not contain anything particularly important.
I will try to find a program that does what you describe (camera correction/recalibration)
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