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Shell Beach Seascape

This is an acrylic painting I did last year based on a photograph I took in the Shell Beach area of Southern California.

 

It's not much of a painting, but the principles I learned from my art instructor have been very helpful to my photography.

 

I recently purchased some inexpensive fluorescent (daylight balanced) studio lights. I put one of these, shooting through an umbrella, on each side of the painting at a 45 degree angle, and got pretty uniform light for taking this photograph.

In the past, I'd not had very good results trying to take photos of paintings. I'm pretty happy with these results.

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Uploaded on December 16, 2010
Taken on December 16, 2010