Painting Vs Photo Portraits – Why Paintings Are Superior For Posterity Or Memorializing

August 23rd, 2010 by


There is a place in the home for photos and portraits, but there is a superior alternative which is rarely remembered. Having a professionally crafted painting from a photograph has many advantages over the mundane photo. Family portraits are not the o…

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How to Shoot That Perfect S-Curve

July 26th, 2010 by


In compositional theory, particular geometric shapes are frequently used by artists to draw the viewer’s eye to a particular subject in the picture space. In the history of photography and painting, triangles, circle, arches and curves can be seen in m…

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Both the Cintiq 21ux and the Genuine Fractals Are Helpful For Photographers

May 30th, 2010 by


Wacom announced the launch of the Cintiq 21ux tablet device which in fact is a kind of Interactive Pen Display. This is a great device for the artists and the photographers and is expected that it would help them in a great way to make their works easi…

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Artists and Fine Art Photographers Offer Print on Canvas Artwork

March 25th, 2010 by


There has been a general trend in the past three or four years for successful artists and professional photographers to offer their original art work reproduced as print on canvas images rather than on photo paper. This would have once been unheard of as the quality of print on canvas was poor, and poor quality copies denigrated the fine artist’s good name. Now, fine quality reproductions created using giclee printing techniques can greatly increase an artist or professional photographer’s market base by offering print on canvas reproductions at significantly lower prices than charged for an original.

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Basic Photography – Framing and Composition

March 19th, 2010 by


Do you think placing a subject in the dead center of the photo is the best way to do it? This article will suggest something a little different that artists and photographers have been doing for years.

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Selling Stock Images – Research Tips For Artists

February 8th, 2010 by


If you would like to make the most money possible when selling your images to an online stock image site, it is important to research the sites first. By doing your homework before submitting your images, you will find out helpful information, including what quality of image is acceptable to a particular site, how much the images need to be enhanced if at all, what images sell the best, and what images might be missing in the top 40 best sellers.

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The Effect of Digitisation on the Methods and Practice of Photographers

February 5th, 2010 by


Digitisation has had a massive impact on the field of photography, our perception of the media and the nature of practice within the field. Artists like Andreas Gursky have embraced digital manipulation to create iconic work, however is this at the cost of a belief in the “truth” of photography? Digitalisation has made the work of a photographer easier and cheaper, and could be seen to have made photography available to everyone.

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How to Market Giclee Printing on Canvas to Your Clients

January 7th, 2010 by


There are thousands of different sites out there that you can use to help market your artists and help their works so that they will sell. Now, it might take you a bit of time at first to get all of their information, their art works listed, and to create profiles for them all over the web to help establish them as a great artist – but it will come.

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