Colour Balance

Some of you will know I sometimes photograph art works so the artists can have their work printed on e.g.  greetings cards.  Recently I have been trying to improve the colour balance/matching to get the prints to match the original as closely as possible.   I'm not convinced a complete match is possible as a photograph won't replicate e.g. the surface texture of oils or acrylics applied with a palette knife,  but they should be much closer for a watercolour or linocut print.


For a short presentation on this, I have photographed the colour card and the art work, in deliberately poor light (an overhead low energy florescent) just to get a preset which does show up in the Hue/Saturation/Luminance panel in Lightroom. 
In more even daylight the preset makes much smaller changes.

Feel  free to tell me if I have the wrong end of the stick here!


The rest of today went on Osteopath and X-Ray appointments for Gill, sorting out photo prints of garden birds she can use in an art group workshop tomorrow, and me blowing the remaining leaves from the paths at the church for the service on Sunday.

Tomorrow I'm away to Permajet in Stratford for a day on selecting papers for printing.