Amy E. Fraser Art

The last post on Scanography reminded me to discuss the Exalted Beauty Medallion Catalog Portraits: Exalted Beauty Medallion Portraits of Amy E. Fraser      These rather humorous "Selfie" photos were taken before I had a phone camera, so we get to call them serious Fine Art Portraits. These were created intentionally for the purpose of Exalted Beauty Medallion Art Marketing, expanding the Artist Brand, insuring the Name/Face/Brand recognition and the all time favorite, letting the customer get to know You, because remember kids, patrons are buying You the Artist!      These Exalted Beauty Medallion self portraits were created for and posted on the Exalted Beauty blog at the completion of each medallion collection. The Exalted Beauty Medallion catalogs provided the extreme close up of the individual pieces, but the portraits provided an example for the customers to visualize how the medallion would actually look on. Besides, my medallion l...

Scanography also referred to as scanner photography, is the process of capturing digitized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a flatbed "photo" scanner. Fine art scanography differs from traditional document scanning by using atypical objects, often three-dimensional. Scanography is the physical process of arranging objects on a glass platen to capture an image, similar in quality to large format photography. The process records extremely fine detail with a rather shallow depth of field and produces a high quality digital file. The most common use for Scanography is as a specialized tool for macro photography. For example, in the way in which I used the scanner to photograph individual Exalted Beauty Medallions. The purpose in this example was to provide the most accurate presentation of the product for online sales. Another common, more artistic use of Scanography is to capture collages of objects. The objects are arranged upside down on the sc...

Reintroducing: The Exalted Beauty Medallions ! Exalted Beauty Mindworks Medallions by Amy E. Fraser Exalted Beauty Copper Medallion Collection by Amy E. Fraser Stained Glass Botanical Medallion Collection by Amy E. Fraser Copper Animal Medallion Collection by Amy E. Fraser Exalted Beauty Amulet Medallion Collection by Amy E. Fraser      The Exalted Beauty Medallions collection on AEFraser.com is the "Official Historical Archive" for the 52 Exalted Beauty Medallion Collections produced in the years 2005–2011. There are currently 70 images in the archive and I will be adding more photographs to the Exalted Beauty Medallion Collection as time permits.      I’ll bet you are wondering why I am posting photographs of jewelry that is not  for sale? When I first took down my website in January of this year and replaced it with the “blank slate” of the Fine Art America website, I was relieved. I desperately wanted a fre...