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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
What is missing in your post is the required quality you need.
You will have :
light issues : what color temperature you want and how you achieve it (2 normalized projectors would be needed)
colour ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
Just a short answer with an alternative suggestion. I had great success with Image Composite Editor from Microsoft. It's completely free, although you need Windows. It tries to auto detect how did you ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
Studio Art major here who was required to do this exact task several times for my portfolio in order to graduate.
Basically everyone here is correct and you should just pay to have it done by a ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
If you know someone with a good medium format film scanner the minimums should be achievable with one 6x6 or larger exposure. So the requirements might be old standards originally written towards ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
Call up your local copy shop and see if they have a large format scanner. Found a random old blog post (not mine) explaining the process:
Both Kinkos locations in Anchorage have high quality rolltop ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
I have had some experience with photographing paintings to make prints and I can say that, unless you have good skill with photography, photo editing, color-correction and lighting you are in for a ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
I believe I might have to photograph the artwork in sections and then somehow stitch it together in GIMP or Photoshop or whatever software would do the job.
Don't waste your time doing that by hand ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
At 150DPI (*), the 3:2 format that contains all your picture is 30Mpix (30²×1.5×150²=30375000), so within what modern DSLR/Mirrorless cameras can do.
So you can spare yourself a lot of grief and post-...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
You have not defined your lens focal length. The longest the better, the better quality the better.
Take a look at this setup: What focal length is best for photography of rugs?
To squeeze more ...
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How does one photograph a large painting in order to make prints?
As often, the requirements you've been given are internally inconsistent.
150 pixels per inch for a 30″×40″ photo would be 4500×6000 pixels, smaller than their stated dimensions.
300 PPI would be ...
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