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ARTS BUSINESS ADVICE from the ARTISTS FINE ARTS & VISUAL ARTS DIRECTORY: Links to Articles with Advice for Creating Slides Such as Labeling Slides, Taking Pictures & Submitting Slides to Competitions, Juries, Exhibitions, or Galleries.
How To Make Slides of Your Paintings - If you need slides of a painting to submit to a competition or to a gallery, you could hire a photographer to take them for you. But it’s worth trying yourself first, because it’s a lot cheaper.
How to Make Your Own Jury Slides - Are you frustrated by your inability to produce reasonable slides for the FCA juried shows? Are you put off by the high cost of having your slides done professionally? Do you feel that your painting might have been 'juried-in' if only you could have had a decent slide? Is that YOU?
How to Prepare Slides for Juries & Competitions - At one time the author of this article was a hopeful applicant; now, she is the exhausted juror with some opinions on how you might optimize your 15-second opportunity for fame with the proper presentation of slides.
How to Photograph Your Paintings with Slides - This article takes our exploration further by showing how to represent your work with slides.
How to Photograph Your Paintings (Digitally) - Whether you are an artist trying to sell your work or a collector trying to insure your priceless possessions, good photographic technique will often be called upon as an integral part of your job
How do I make slides? - Making slides needs a little bit of organisation on your part: you need to do the following before hand to ensure a stress-free and smooth "photo session".
Proper Care and Labeling for Slides - When you sell a one-of-a-kind piece, its slide image may be the only record you'll have of it. Consequently the preservation of that slide becomes paramount. Older color-slide films have life expectancies of about 25 years. So, while it's important to know how to shoot slides, caring for them is just as important.
Slides as a Documentation Tool - Presenting properly shot and labeled slides is imperative to projecting your professional image and representing your work in the best light possible. More often that not, your slides will be the most important factor when a decision is being made about your work by a curator, an exhibition committee or a grant review panel.
Slide Labeling: Recommended Conventions - Proper labeling of slides is a simple but very important task. One must provide the name, date, dimensions, medium, date of completion, and notations indicating the slides’ correct orientation for the viewer.
Slide Tips for Artists - A great selection of tips for putting together slides such as Labeling and presentation, materials for slide presentation, slide selection, an annotated slide sheet, and more.
Slide Labeling Recommended Conventions - Proper labeling of slides is a simple but very important task. One must provide the name, date, dimensions, medium, date of completion, and notations indicating the slide's correct orientation for the viewer (before it goes into the projector). Sometimes it is appropriate to indicate the location of the piece or whether it has been destroyed.
Slides: To do or not to do? That is the question. - Longtime gallerist Julie Rico gives you the no-nonsense, low-down on the all-important documentation of your work.
Taking Quality Slides - One of the most important aspects for success in the arts and crafts field is the quality of your photographs. Whether you are submitting work for consideration at shows, galleries, competitions, or are uploading images to the WWW, it is the sharpness, framing, composition, and color saturation of the slides/prints that will allow the work to be viewed the way you intend to the best effect.
What method should I use to get my paintings and soforth onto slides? - Find out the answer to this question.