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It is really hard to decide "the true color" on the camera display, then on the computer screen and then in the print. The color pigment shifts in the oil on the canvas, the water spreading them over the watercolor paper, depending on the stroke of the brush, the structure of the paper, the light reflecting in them.
The camera catches one of all these shifting settings. Which painting will I choose? The cooler, brighter, brittle, softer, harder, more yellow and blue or more green and red. Some color relation is impossible to mimic on display, screen. Impossible to catch with the camera eye.
So, they will be, slightly altered.
Then, resolution - in my case I first used my little digital camera, Fujifilm, FinePix F480. I have never liked the distortion of the colors it gives neither the strange outdrawn perspective. But I thought it could be useful photographing landscapes and even for indoor interior design. But it is almost impossible to catch what interests me in something I saw when this camera - the lens has another "view" in fact. So my photographing became more and more scarce. But, the first paintings to this site I took with this camera. My gesture drawings I scan.
Then I started to use my cellphone, my mobile, for taking pictures. It is a very small and simple camera in it, but it began to feel fun again, even if the pictures still did not get overwhelmingly sharp, bright and the lens distorted the view. It was a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, and hardly any possibilities to change the settings. Before these two cameras I had a really good one, actually I have had two - first one old fashioned analog camera with glass lenses of different kinds. A bit clumsy, yes - but good pictures - and it is snappy. Then I got my first digital camera a Nikon coolpix 950. Now, this really set me off. Handy to bring, suddenly I had photos from all kinds of situations and environments, dark, light, watery ... I lend it out to a friends son - who was too hard handed with it ... sad.
Anyway, the next camera I used to try to catch my paintings into the digital world was another friends camera -high resolution, sharpness and possible to vary its settings (a real digital camera) - but, not so much time for helping me and a season when it is quite dark up here in the North of Scandinavia. The result was, to put it short, that it is possible to make an art print that can be printed out to up to 1 meter from this website.
Next, my mothers camera (a real digital camera) for loan. Better than my small one but not especially high resolution max 60 x 60 cm as outcome on print on this website.
Then an iphone 7, not so bad- resolution and sharpness alright and good for 70x70 cm outcome as print on this website.
Next now - I will try to loan my friends camera again - when it is still light.
