Friday 26 February 2010

Three into One does go

Apart from clarity and detail high resolution photos have another distinct advantage over smaller images and that is the ability to find another painting opportunity within the same photo.

Crop a smaller image and all you have left is one that's even smaller and might as well be viewed through frosted glass. Clearly not every photo offers the opportunity for a multiple crop, but plenty do. This photo of a manor house in Burgundy is an example of one that does. The original photo has good composition; the darker yet smaller tower in the middle providing the balance for the larger but lighter building on the right. And when you have exhausted your creative juices with your own rendition of a photo why not see if you can paint another similar, yet different picture.

One added advantage in doing this is that having already painted it you already have a good knowledge of the picture. Using the crop tool is one quick and easy way to do just that. In this particular photo cropping out the right hand building provides reference for an alternative painting. This time the tower becomes the focal point. The lines of the fence, the rooftops on the right, the hedges and the hills all provide an excellent lead in to the focal point. Subduing the detail in the buildings on the right will also help to highlight to focal point.
 
Of course, not every painting needs to be in the landscape format. The portrait orientation lends itself to the painting of tall buildings and that is exactly what we have here. When you've found a reference photo and painted it two or three times, why not play around with the crop tool to see if you can find the basis for another painting within the same image.

The guiding philosophy of Photos4artists is to provide high quality, large pixel photos of  a type that are hard to obtain elsewhere on the Internet. Clearly the right balance needs to be struck between too slow a download time and the desire to post as large and as clear a photo as possible. Hopefully, we have achieved that.



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