‘Painterly’ Collection

I enjoy creating images that have a more ‘painterly’ look to them. Paintings show what is in the artist1s ‘minds-eye’. They can choose to omit things from the scene or even add things. They can manipulate or create their own light and shade, colour palette and textures to create the mood they feel or want to convey or the story they want to tell or imply. Photographers can do this to an extent, especially with digital images, but traditionally, photographs are more documentary and show the scene ‘as it is’. In fact, in some photographic genres ‘manipulation’ or changing the scene is frowned upon, for example in street photography. Also, photographs tend to be more sharp or ‘clinical’, especially in these days of high MP cameras.

Here are a collection of images which, have a deliberate ‘painterly’ look to them. This may due to the composition or subject matter, story-telling or mood, use of light and texture in the image or because they resemble a particular style of painting or even a particular artist. But you decide if you agree; you may not see it in the same way as I do. I think the ‘painterly’ look is more obvious in some of these images than in others. To create these images I have not used any specialist software to make them look ‘painterly’, just atmospheric conditions (fog and haze are good for this style), sometimes ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) and editing in Capture One.