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Lighting for Sculptures

As some people have noticed, we do accept three-dimensional work such as sculptures. There is some beautiful work out there and we do not want to miss it! As such, one of our reviewers who has experience with film and video lighting put together this helpful image to show one way to properly light a figure.

This is from them: "I'm not a sculptor myself, so I just took a figure I had around and did some quick-and-dirty lighting on it. It's not the best, but gives a good idea of the basics from where to start. I used a couple desklamps, one with some blue plastic over it for the backlight. I would highly recommend getting a workbook on film and video lighting, and perhaps some gels, usually available at theatre supply shops."

Down the line, I would expect this to be the minimum standard of quality on ArtSpots for sculpture lighting. Since perspective is not something we can measure on a sculpture obviously, we will give a lot more attention to lighting and a bit more to composition. We also expect the same care of placing them into a scene as one might with a two-dimensional drawing, and soon hope to have an example of that.

If folks have any questions, please do let us know.

P.S. The image is fairly large, 250k.

Ooooooh! This is most useful! Thank you for posting such helpful info! I will have to take some experimental photos now.

Just what I needed. This is so handy. Thank you for posting. <3

I have to say I really admired the way Wicked Sairah lights her sculptures. She really goes out of her way to make the piece shine. I noticed she had kind of a secondary more "blue" light on one side with a more yellow light on the other and that created some cool effects. A good example is here:
http://artspots.com/users/wickedsairah/2301

Another good one:
http://artspots.com/users/wickedsairah/2310

So yeah, really taking the time to showcase your 3D art in its best light = very good idea!

I wish I'd seen this before I sold most of my sculptures. The pictures I have of them are not the best. Oh well - it just means I'll have to create more!