Jack_Flesher
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My experience is that there are two main types of art repro customers. The first is museums that want to display a dupe to protect the original. The second -- which usually pays more -- is an artist who is well enough recognised they can sell copies of an original work and here is where the problems start. They tend to compare the copy directly with their original before they sign it and send it off. Ususally this is done in studio and if the deep blue and blue-greens in their seascape don't look right in the copy they are not going to be satisfied...
And for sure, HID lights are not cheap -- nor are they small! But they are freaking incredible lights. Someday I'd like to land a job that justified their use and purchase
FWIW, in addition to Profoto strobes, I have a pair of older CCT (cold-cathode-tube) lights made by WestLight. I bought them used from an art-repro guy who bought a set of NorthLight HID 900's.
And for sure, HID lights are not cheap -- nor are they small! But they are freaking incredible lights. Someday I'd like to land a job that justified their use and purchase
FWIW, in addition to Profoto strobes, I have a pair of older CCT (cold-cathode-tube) lights made by WestLight. I bought them used from an art-repro guy who bought a set of NorthLight HID 900's.
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