Shoot Great Images™

Intermediate-level lessons from professional photographer Eric Law.

Shoot Great Images™ explores in more depth the camera settings, lighting, and setup for successfully shooting different types of artwork, along with more details about editing and formatting your images. It supplements the Essentials for Great Images™ lessons with additional intermediate-level content.

Lessons Included with the Artisan Membership

These camera settings will do more harm than good when photographing your art.

Do you need special lighting gear to shoot your artwork? The short answer is no.

With dimensional artwork, modify the two-light setup and add a third light.

The photos of your dimensional artwork will be improved with softer lighting.

Let’s dig a little deeper to look at what’s happening inside the camera.

Photos of dimensional artwork need adequate depth of field.

Who doesn’t want some advice from a pro with solutions to common problems.

Now you’re ready for some of the finer points of shooting dimensional artwork.

There are other software options for fixing your images.

It’ll be helpful for you to get a tour of the workspace.

I’ll make the three basic edits—white balance, exposure, and straighten and crop.

Maybe you only need to adjust part of the tonal range.

Sometimes the colors look washed out or the white balance adjustment wasn’t right.

The last of the adjustment tools to bring out more of the detail in your images.

Finally, let’s talk about how to make minor repairs.

Some shows want a “high-resolution” image—what about DPI?

Many shows perpetuate the myths around DPI by requiring 300 or 72 DPI.

Now that I’ve got the image sized for the show entry, it’s time to save it.

You’ve done the work necessary to get your image ready, now let’s get it entered.

Let’s dig a little deeper into the Image Size tool.

Juried shows alone are not enough—you also need to get your art on the web.

If you submit work to a gallery, they’ll want to see your art in a portfolio.

Also Included...

Lessons delivered by streaming video and available 24/7 to watch on your mobile device or desktop computer.
Downloadable Lesson Guides with transcripts of the videos, if you prefer to read the lessons, space to make notes, and worksheets with exercises to help you understand the lesson and put it into practice. Click here to download a sample.
An online member Forum for questions and answers about photographing artwork and working with the images.