Questions tagged [fine-art]
A photograph taken with the intention of being an artistic piece rather than a documentary or commercial piece.
19
questions
2
votes
4
answers
359
views
Is jpeg or png the standard for fine art photography?
Is jpeg the predominant file format for fine art digital photographs, or what advantages would png have quality-wise that jpeg doesn't for photography, given that it takes up much more hard drive ...
- 594
-1
votes
1
answer
376
views
What are the standard pixel, inches and megabyte sizes for fine art photography?
I know that 6x4 inch photos were popularized by 35mm cameras, which were then superseded by 4x3 aspect ratio in digital cameras, while 16x9 has taken precedence in general because of widescreen ...
- 594
3
votes
1
answer
112
views
Print wheel track on fineart print
Recently I've bought an Epson SC800 to make some prints of my photography. The first few prints were (semi)glossy and turned out extremely well. Now I've also bought some Epson Hot Press Bright ...
- 131
-3
votes
1
answer
154
views
One photograph or two?
There are two prints of the same subject (Lorina Liddell by Lewis Carroll), but I'm not sure if I'm seeing two different prints of the very same negative or they are two similar, but distinct shots of ...
1
vote
1
answer
134
views
Is a Fine Art Baryta print suitable for display in an office with fluorescent lights?
I am considering printing a color photo with prominent blacks and saturated colors to be mounted on a 75x50 panel for display in my office.
The office has two large windows on the wall adjacent to the ...
- 113
1
vote
3
answers
3k
views
Is it acceptable to have two limited editions of the same print?
What are the rules for making limited edition prints. Can you have two limited edition for a particular photograph? I was considering doing a limited edition mounted on aluminium, and a less expensive ...
- 461
2
votes
2
answers
4k
views
Information to include with a fine art print?
I am just beginning to sell some of my images and would like to personalize them a little. Many photographers sign and title their work on the white space just below the printed image. I am having ...
- 21
4
votes
4
answers
874
views
camera for b&w fine art [closed]
Would a perfectionist shooting in black & white for artistic value find a need for a special camera? I'm thinking of the Leica M monochrom or the Sony a7r.
The responses have cleared my mind ...
- 43
13
votes
8
answers
3k
views
Why is "fine art" photography predominantly in B&W?
I've done a lot of reading on this to try and find the answer myself, but have not been successful. I've seen many definitions of "fine art" in the web, wikipedia, etc. I've read about the historical ...
- 1,193
6
votes
2
answers
512
views
What are the most valuable photographs on the planet?
I have recently read about a print of Ansel Adams reaching $600,000 at auction in 1948 (equivalent of around $6 million US dollars today). This got me thinking that there must be other high value ...
- 2,724
3
votes
1
answer
814
views
An intro to "conceptual" fine-art photography?
In many photo clubs and professional fine art photography, is very common to show "conceptual" photo essays or photo series.
That is, there is a unifying idea behind a compilation of images, and ...
- 670
0
votes
3
answers
356
views
What makes a photograph "fine art"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What makes “fine art” fine art?
I have seen a number of sites selling "fine art photography". I was wondering what makes photography fine art? Is it the type of photography, ...
- 1,187
25
votes
9
answers
3k
views
Should an artist/photographer admit to a photo being edited?
I was recently looking at some landscape photography awards in Central London and noticed that quite a few of the images had significant post editing in Photoshop. The artists had even mentioned ...
- 1,187
14
votes
1
answer
8k
views
What is Fine Art Paper?
What is fine art paper and how is it different from standard photo paper? Is it just a marketing term? When should it be used?
- 46.6k
11
votes
2
answers
3k
views
What was the "New York School" of photography?
My art history knowledge consists of half-remembered intro-level courses. I learned from following this question that Saul Leiter was a member of or made contributions to something called "The New ...
- 143k
Hot Network Questions
- What concretely does it mean to "do mathematics in a topos X"?
- Why did std::set not have a contains function until C++20?
- Did Arab Christians use the word "Allah" before Islam?
- I found a counterexample to an assumption in a proof but not to its result – can I publish this as a paper?
- Is deciding to use google fonts the sort of decision that makes an entity a controller rather than a processor?
- Left crank arm misaligned on climb
- Setting position of PlotLegends affect position of PlotLabel
- Old client wants files from materials created for them 6 years ago
- How many blocks per second can be sustainably be created using a time warp attack?
- Is there a wavelength shift between sunlight observed from the ISS ant one observed from an observer located on the Earth surface?
- replacing a 15-amp breaker with a 20-amp breaker
- Swap the positions of the 4 chess knights
- What's that little animation between Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 2 and Book 3?
- Is there a reason why the Maclaurin coefficients of the Riemann zeta function are asymptotically close to -1?
- Would it be possible to start a new town in America with its own political system?
- Homebrew DND 5e Spell, review in power, and well... utility
- How to modify FLS (Read) on all Fields on all Objects in your Org with Apex
- Does the question "will I get transplanted" make sense to your ears?
- Does the grammar underlying 为期 generalize to 为主, 为基础, and so on?
- How to respect leading zero when importing in libreoffice calc
- Is "farfel" an idiolectical quirk/part of a familect?
- Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
- Selecting unsymbolised features in QGIS
- Can perfectly stable orbits exist in GR?