Painting up a storm

[Jocelyn Walker]

I tried to capture the atmosphere of upcoming storm & the isolation here in my photo as well as the painting that was in progress! I use my digital photos as reference points when I get back to my studio. Would the composition have been improved if cropped more on the left or right instead of having subject centred?

[Matt Kneale]

Re: Painting up a storm

Jocelyn, I like the concept
I would agree that cropping would improve the image, but another benefical view could be getting closer to the painting, and bringing it more into the picture. This helps avoid eyes drifting off or having to find the subject.

Matt

[Stephen]

Re: Painting up a storm

Jocelyn, I like the concept
I would agree thyat cropping would improve the image, but another benefical view could be getting closer to the painting, and bringing it more into the picture. This helps avoid eyes drifting off or having to find the subject.

Matt

Spot on Matt, even use the painting with the scene behind as a sort of comparison. Perhaps along the lines of this one

[Ian]

Re: Painting up a storm

Hi Jocelyn, I'd say that the foreground and sky are fighting each other for the eye's attention. Also, the horizon is not quite level.

I'd be tempted to move the easel to the lower left corner position and bring more sky in to play and process the sky to make it more 'brooding'

Ian

[Archangel]

Re: Painting up a storm

Jocelyn,

By observing your photo I see some strong and weak parts.
I call weak parts those that texturing is weak, like the top part of the washed out sky and the bottom part where land is not totally covered by grass.
I think that cropping the weak parts out and havinng the painting not centered will help the photo.

Something like this for example:





George

[Tinka]

Re: Painting up a storm

Hi Jocelyn,
Love the concept.
For me the atmosphere of the approaching storm is not very apparent, it just looks a very flat and overcast day, however all is not lost, some options have already been covered, I would suget that you convert the land/seascape background to mono and adjust/tweek to add mood and stormy atmosphere but leave the painting in color and more prominent in the frame perhaps croping the image to leave the painting larger and somewhere near the rule of thirds position. Just my humble opinion and observations.

[Jocelyn Walker]

Re: Painting up a storm

Thank you all for your comments.