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Scanning/shooting paintings
I’ve been asked to bid on a project that would consist of visuals from 12 paintings. It is an illustrated book and the whole audio track will be about 20 minutes long. So, given that we only have 12 paintings for those 20 minutes, we would need to show “details” of the paintings. Lot’s of zoom-ins and close detail cutaways. Think “Reading Rainbow”!!
I get how to do this, but I am wondering what resolution these photos would have to be. I will be editing at 1920×1080, so I typically would have the photos done at 6x the resolution, which would make this HUGE:
So, I have two options:
-require the client to give me the paintings as .TIF’s at 6x 1920×1080
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-arrange to go and shoot the paintings myself. This way, I could shoot the photos large, but could also shoot close-ups of the detailed areas I know I’ll need.
Any advice or gotchas I need to know about?
thanks
-Tuckeralso, I read about a plug-in for Final Cut that let’s you do the “Ken Burns” easier, by just drawing bounding boxes. Anyone know what that is called?
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How big are the paintings?
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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If you shoot the paintings yourself you also have the added dimension of being able to shoot at an angle, and rack focus between places of interest.
Back when I was a news cameraman I would sometimes shoot segments on exhibitions at art galleries and then I tried to always get one good wide shot of each painting, a few good closeups of interesting details and then I tried to shoot at angle because then you can really see the three-dimensionality of the brushstrokes.
If I were you I´d try to get every conceiveable and unconceiveable angle because having to show a single painting for 100 seconds will quickly get boring. If the enviorenment relates to your subject matter then some shots of the surroundings would also help… -
[Tucker Dansie] “also, I read about a plug-in for Final Cut that let’s you do the “Ken Burns” easier, by just drawing bounding boxes. Anyone know what that is called?”
Moving Picture from Stage Tools
Pan Zoom Pro from Lyric
among others.
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Thanks. This is a great idea. I agree completely. The stills will have some “moves” on them, Ken-burns style, but I am too worried about it getting boring.
My biggest concern is if we want to go from the full wide-shot of the painting and then zoom into something super close-up, it wouldn’t be seamless. We’d start on the wide, but then zoom in and have to switch to the close-up. But, I’m even thinking that I could shoot multiple shots of hte painting and “stitch” them together in Photoshop.
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