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Brett Hill

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First stage of work in progress.  

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Brett Hill

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Some way off deciding, but I may crop the right hand side of the image.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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A bit early to decide on that, I'd have thought, but I do understand your thinking - with the weight  on the left, how can you balance it on the right..? Without, of course, detracting from your focal point.  These are the decisions we arty types have to face every day - and with which we're all familiar.   With the light coming from the left, as it seems to be at this stage, shadows could help you - but I shall not presume to  prescribe!  

Alan Bickley

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Composition is about balance, and that doesn’t mean everything being equal on all sides - this is fine and doesn’t need cropping!

Norrette Moore

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I agree with Alan
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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NWorking on balancing a scene is a big part of our learning process as we develop our skills , there a slight different opinion a to what s a balance painting some like the main feature deaf centre others  as long a it’s not to far to either side . This looks fine to me and a its developed I’m sure it will look fine to you as well Brett , rathe than crop it work on getting it to look balance , you will learn are more that just cropping when your not happy with how it looks . It t easy with edit facilities  to think oh I can just crop it , honestly you will develop skill far quicker b learning from correcting your  work. I’m sorry if this comes acts a lecture but I do think it’s so important to learn by undoing mistakes.  Robert mentioned the shadows , I would suggest that  you have then quite dark so that the figures and trees look like the are attached to the ground and also to contrast the lighter foliage etc . 

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Brett Hill

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My thoughts on cropping wasn’t  so much about balance as having a tighter view of things, a greater focus on the colour and brushwork. But as I said, we’ll see.

Alan Bickley

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This crop obviously works in this square format. But the focus is going to be on the figure, so it needs to be good…  You need some depth to the whole composition as it stands, mix up some interesting colours for shadows… get some contrast into it!

Alan Morris

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For me I would go for a crop like this-  it puts the main subject around the golden mean and leaves some room for the image to breathe on the right hand side.
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Marjorie Firth

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My crop would be like Alan’s, above. Maybe with just a little more at the bottom. Nicely balanced then - I agree with Alan’s comments.
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Brett Hill

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Almost finished. Most likely to go with the cropped version. But I like both versions. Spot the difference.

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