Advice for Camera for art pieces?

[BigFatLazyCat]

Hello fellow camera freaks, I come to you in time of great need.

Actually I am simply wondering if any of you have experience in photographing pieces of art for the sake of advertising and selling them.

Ive been using the Nikon Coolpix L110 (Nikon Coolpix L110 review) but the pictures don't always come out nice and crisp and it doesn't look professional enough. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I joined a few pics as an example.

Is it a matter of Mp? I don't think so because 10-12 Mp should be more than enough for small pictures right?

I was looking into this Olympus model perhaps: Olympus PEN E-PM2 16.1 MP (Olympus PEN E-PM2 16.1 MP Digital Camera - White (Kit w/ M.Zuiko Digital II 14-4 50332184367 | eBay)

Anybody has experience with that model or with art pictures in general? How could I make my pics more neat and crisp?

Thank you, any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[john.margetts]

Your biggest problem in the examples you have posted is lighting rather than any failing in the camera.

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[weepete]

What settings were these taken at?

It looks to me like the lens on your camera isn't the sharpest, or it missed focus (possibly inside the minimum focus distance of the lens). A raised ISO (400 on that camera looks to me like where loss of detail starts to become an issue), so it could be a combination of those issues.

Camera shake could have contributed but it looks more to me like missed focus. But yeah, there's also a bit of underexposure and the lighting isn't ideal.

 

[fmw]

Professionals use strobes and light modifiers to light a set properly. Unless you have such equipment, know how to use it and have a camera that can synchronize the strobes, you won't get the same results. The problem with your camera is not that it can't make sharp images. It can. The problem is that it can't synch external flash. Neither can the Olympus. If you want to use available light, you should probably invest in a tripod. That will eliminate the motion blur.

 

[Designer]

Hello fellow camera freaks, I come to you in time of great need.

Actually I am simply wondering if any of you have experience in photographing pieces of art for the sake of advertising and selling them.

Ive been using the Nikon Coolpix L110 (Nikon Coolpix L110 review) but the pictures don't always come out nice and crisp and it doesn't look professional enough. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I joined a few pics as an example.

Is it a matter of Mp? I don't think so because 10-12 Mp should be more than enough for small pictures right?

I was looking into this Olympus model perhaps: Olympus PEN E-PM2 16.1 MP (Olympus PEN E-PM2 16.1 MP Digital Camera - White (Kit w/ M.Zuiko Digital II 14-4 50332184367 | eBay)

Anybody has experience with that model or with art pictures in general? How could I make my pics more neat and crisp?

Thank you, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hello, my name is "Designer" and I'm a camera freak.

Your Mp is fine. Don't need to spend money on a different camera (unless you want to).

The focus can be helped quite bit by adding more light. This appears to be window light, which is o.k., but for the shots to be sharper, you need to mount your camera on a tripod. Go to the local big box store, and get a tripod. Don't spend a lot, nor look for the cheapest one, either. If you can adjust the shutter speed and aperture, try for a medium aperture and longish shutter opening. See if that helps.

In reading the review, I did not see if the aperture and shutter speed are user-adjustable. If there is a "manual" mode, or an "aperture" mode, use that.

If you need still more light, remove the shade from a table lamp and get it fairly close to your subject. Try that.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I'm not familiar with that camera but not being able to set aperture/shutter speed probably isn't helping any. A sharp lens is a help in lower light or existing room light (which I think can seem bright enough but maybe isn't enough for the camera).

It's possible, I've done what Designer said, angle or move room lamp shades toward a subject. I also do it on a sunny day, at the time of day that a room is getting the light, open curtains/blinds, and think about where the subject is in relation to the window(s). Can work but can take some figuring out how to make it work.

 

[BigFatLazyCat]

Thank you very much to all for the detailed reply, its really appreciated. I will probably try to play arounf with light and get myself a tripod.

All the best