Hello, everyone! I’ve reached out to a potential client who is looking for someone to lay out a children’s book. He has artwork for the book’s illustrations, which he’s looking to have photographed and digitized. My wife is an experienced photographer, but I don’t think she’s ever worked with photographing colored-pencil art in particular. Is there anything I should know, or anywhere especially helpful we should look for resources, regarding art photography?
Thank you!
J
You would be searching for “fine art scanning”, rather than photography.
Depends on the art, it’s fragility mostly, whether you want to smash it face down into a scanner.
We always get original art photographed by a photographer with a scanback camera. Those things have the resolution to get to the large sizes we often need for wall murals and display images. Might be overkill for a bunch of small art for a book, though probably not, just will be priced less than we pay for the big stuff, likely. Usually pay by the megabyte.