Fine Art Reproduction

For our art reproduction services, we use a 4X5 large format camera, the finest quality German lenses and a Better Light digital back. This is the exact same camera system used by many of the world's famous museums and the results speak for themselves.

Another key factor contributing to the high quality of our digital capture is the use of the Zig-Align system to achieve perfect parallelism. Maximum sharpness is achieved because the lens and film planes are set exactly parallel to each other and to the subject. Through this system, angle distortion can be controlled and eliminated.

Color Management

Another of our strengths is professional color management. Each of our critical components is part of a regular highly-technical maintenance routine. Our digital scanning back, computer monitors, scanners and printers are all calibrated regularly, plus each roll of paper or canvas is custom profiled. Moreover, we use archival inks, papers and canvases to produce long-lasting inkjet and giclee prints. The result is a superbly accurate color rendering in the final print.

Lighting a painting for texture

Painters employ an age-old method of adding paint to canvas known as “Fat on Thin.” The purpose of this painterly technique is to build up the texture of the surface in order to create a feeling of depth as well as to prevent the cracking of the underlying layers as it dries.

Ordinary photography flattens the surface imagery of a painting creating a two-dimensional effect so that shadow details and sense of depth are lost. The print looks flattened like a poster instead. In order to capture the feeling and look the artist intended, we practice what museum class reproduction experts refer to as “Advanced Asymmetrical Lighting.” Using up to four HID reproduction lights, they are arranged so as to reveal every nuance of every brush stroke. The result is an uncanny reproduced likeness of the original.