Photographing Paintings Help

endersaka

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I am not sure this is the right forum for this question, though, I try. Eventually, mods/admins can move kindly to the right place. Thanks.

I can't acquire watercolors correctly. Something goes wrong with the scanner. Paper texture is like... "Inverted" (as like as the peaks were the valleys and the valleys were the peaks) and produce a very undesirable effect.

This is an example. A small marshland landscape. Where you see a "hill" there is actually a "depression", and vice-versa. Which, in this case, does not cause particular problems, but it does for darker paintings.

Therefore, I thought to capture my paintings with the camera, and to achieve bigger resolution, to capture overlapping quadrants, and mount them as a mosaic, with some software that I found, named hugin. The software is pretty straight forward, also I come from photogrammetry experience, so I see similarities, though, I wonder, does anyone have any experience in taking the photographs for such kind of programs?

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I think what you're responding to is a common optical illusion. How the brain interprets light and shadow and translates it into a 3D model. Nothing wrong with that photo that I can see, and it's a nice WC besides.
 
I think what you're responding to is a common optical illusion. How the brain interprets light and shadow and translates it into a 3D model. Nothing wrong with that photo that I can see, and it's a nice WC besides.
I appreciate your positive feedback but, believe me, it is not an optical illusion, what I see with my very eyes is different and the rendition of that painting is totally different.
 
No comparison of a photo of a painting and a painting. I find you lose the color harmonies as they get moulded in the process. As for the dimples I don’t know as I’ve never took a photo of watercolour paper.
 
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