Posted by Bob Johnson on November 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM
I thought that this may be of some interest.
It is a painting that I commissioned recently from wildlife artist Steven Lingham. It is based on a photograph (see larger image) that I took in the Ngorongoro Crater last year and posted a while back on the UKNP gallery.
I have contributed an article about the photo and why I commissioned Steve to paint a picture of it to the 'art and photography' section of the January 2012 BIRDWATCH magazine. The article also explores the thorny subject of 'photo-realism' in wildlife paintings with Steve expressing his own strong views on the matter.
Quite a few of us will have supplied artists our pictures to paint from but how do we as photographers feel about realistic or representational wildlife art being made from photographs?
for more of Steve's work see www.stevenlingham.com
Bob
Posted by David Taylor on November 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM
Artists having been using images from a camera obscura
Posted by Matt Cole on November 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM
it's an impressive painting. Personally, I like a degree of realism in paintings though it doesn't always have to be photo-realism. But the difference between a photograph and a painting is that artistic licence can be used with the latter, as shown so effectively with the addition of the background in this painting.
Matt
Posted by David Sewell on November 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Impressive painting, and an impressive photo as well. How realistic a painting needs to be is all a matter of personal taste. As I grow older I appreciate impressionism more and more, but it is still the ultra realistic Simon Combes whose prints hang on my walls. Incidentally, while we are comparing paintings with photographs, has anyone else noticed how while we tend to clone out odd blades of grass etc., painters tend to paint them in deliberately. There may be a lesson there somewhere, but I am not sure what it is!
Discussion
3 repliesIt is a painting that I commissioned recently from wildlife artist Steven Lingham. It is based on a photograph (see larger image) that I took in the Ngorongoro Crater last year and posted a while back on the UKNP gallery.
I have contributed an article about the photo and why I commissioned Steve to paint a picture of it to the 'art and photography' section of the January 2012 BIRDWATCH magazine. The article also explores the thorny subject of 'photo-realism' in wildlife paintings with Steve expressing his own strong views on the matter.
Quite a few of us will have supplied artists our pictures to paint from but how do we as photographers feel about realistic or representational wildlife art being made from photographs?
for more of Steve's work see www.stevenlingham.com
Bob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
and a camera lucida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida
for hundreds (if not thousands) of years as well as the photograph when that became available.
An image is an image and only that. It is NOT reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_not_a_pipe
Superb image by the way.
Matt
David