PHOTOGRAPHING OIL PAINTINGS

I'm having such a horrible time trying to photograph my oil paintings. I remember struggling with this years ago, which is why I don't have good photos of any of them. So, I went out and bought a really nice camera thinking this would do the trick, but no. It takes really nice pictures but I can't get the lighting good enough without a huge glare problem. Or the lighting is too low and they end up really grainy. I have a Polaroid filter and that helps a lot, but doesn't help if there is glare over the whole painting.

Anybody know anything about this subject, or can lead me to the right info? I can't afford to have a professional photographer do it.

Back to scanning my paper art, til I get this solved.

NEW PAINTINGS

Thank you watchers for tolerating all of my spamming of the uploads of my older work. I suddenly have a maniacal urge to paint again, so I will be uploading new work for awhile. Unfortunately I still have to take photos of my older oil paintings...so more spamming will come soon.


YUPO

Since I'm getting questions on what YUPO is, thought I better explain. YUPO is synthetic paper that does not absorb the paint. When you use watercolor on YUPO it allows the minerals and chemicals of the paint to interact with each other to a much greater degree then on regular paper. The bleeds, attractions and repelling are much more pronounced. Even though I control the painting, the paints also like to whatever they want.

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