M31- Andromeda Galaxy

When I started painting last year, I have decided to paint sth for each member of my family. This one was for my son, who was 12 at the moment stepping into adolescence... Fortunately, he liked it a lot and has it in his bedroom! The script reads(in Spanish) 'Reality exceeds the visible'. The handwriting didn't come out quite well.... 14x21

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Comment by Silvana M Albano on December 15, 2014 at 16:43: Thanks!!! I'll try it out!

Comment by Mike Robles on December 15, 2014 at 8:58: You could try an experiment to cut reflections with your present camera. If you have polarizing sun glasses, use them to look at you painting in full sun light. If the reflections are reduced enough, cover your camera lens with the sun glass lens and take the picture. I don't know if this will work, but it can't hurt to try. Good luck!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on December 14, 2014 at 14:24: Michel, I really appreciate you answering!!! Thanks a lot! :) !

Comment by Silvana M Albano on December 14, 2014 at 14:23: Michel, you obviously have a very sharp eye! This IS the painting I was talking about... it's varnished already.... and impossible to get a decent pic! I suppose I'llhave to get a more sophisticated camera. My Nikon Coolpix and Picasa are not enough. I suppose Photoshop has got those filters...

Now, taking a picture in bright sunlight of a painting, I have never tried... but, I don't know if it'd work for this one as there is a lot of phosphorescent paint in it!

Comment by Mike Robles on December 14, 2014 at 12:34: Silvana, I'm not familiar with this messaging process.

You questioned how I take photos of my paintings without reflections. I do several things:

1. I photograph before I apply gloss varnish,

2. I use a polarizing filter if it is already varnished,

3. I don't have a proper photo studio, where I can manipulate lighting, so I set up the painting, vertically, on the side of our house in full sunlight and assure that any reflections are minimized.

If your painted surface is highly textured a polarizing filter is a must!

I hope that helps!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on May 13, 2013 at 13:14: Thanks CJ!!!!

Comment by Jessica Futerman on April 18, 2013 at 17:30: What a fun idea Silvana! I painted something like this for one of my sons too - he has a big telescope & enjoys looking at the stars - your son must love this!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on April 18, 2013 at 11:45: COOL!!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on April 18, 2013 at 11:19: What I haven't written, asI thought it would be too long to write at the bottom of the picture, is that All the bright spots and the belts surrounding the star clusters in the centre, were also painted with fosforescent paint (acrylics) on top of the white. This paint is colouless, but glows in the dark. With artificial light, it just can't be seen. The idea was to leave that message to my son. The caption shouldn't have been possible to read while there was light, but at night it should have appeared...

Unfortunately, I decided to varnish it on top... and the caption became visible... at daylight and darkness!!!!

At night, when the lights are turned off, the stars start appearing... the centre and Milky Way first and then all the rest when our eyes are used to darkness.

Comment by Silvana M Albano on April 18, 2013 at 11:07: Not really... our galaxy, 'The Milky Way', is the bright oval at the left, near the centre- somewhere there is the Belt. But While I was painting those three, I was thinking on the Orion Belt!!!!!!

No, I didn't airbrush it. I used brushes and my fingers! It has a loooot of layers as I was never happy with it...