Beautiful Garrapata 11 x 14 oil

A stormy sky creates the drama and atmosphere that I love to paint.

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Comment by Dorian Aronson on August 24, 2013 at 20:51: Your sure knew how to handle that sky. Excellent : )) smiles

Comment by Lori Ippolito on August 16, 2013 at 4:16: this is fabulous!! you really kept things in harmony and captured to mood wonderfully! love your water & those birds!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on August 16, 2013 at 1:43: Sandra, I also photograph my paintings in natutal light in the shade. I try and do it on an overcast day between 10 am and 2 pm. Sometimes I have some glare. I will photograph my paintings before oiling out or varnishing. I think you did the right thing by underexposing it. I just use a point and shoot camera. The higher end DSLR cameras allow shooting in "raw" mode and you can adjust these images to a gray card. I just put some white paper under one edge of the painting and lay the painting on a gray background (weathered redwood deck) and allow a lot of the background to show around the painting and crop it after color adjusting. I have Photoshop Elements 11 but I usually use an old program from Microsoft "Digital Image Pro" for my editing. Your photo looks pretty good to me with a lot of really nice grays. Stu

Comment by Sharon Casavant on August 16, 2013 at 0:13: Very nice stormy sky with minimal lighting.

Comment by Sandra Harris on August 16, 2013 at 0:09: Thank you, Stuart. Speaking of chroma, I had trouble photographing this one. I kept getting an over exposed image and higher chroma than it actually was. I think because this is such a dark painting. When I tried to correct it in I photo, it made it even more chromatic. I finally got closer using my camera setting to under expose it, but it is still more chromatic than the actual painting. Any suggestions? I take my images in natural light in the shade and often have a problem with glare, especially if I have used walnut oil. I have not mastered photo shop.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on August 15, 2013 at 16:20: Nice work Sandra. You captured the stormy look very well; I can't see any lightening, but I can hear the thunder. Just about everyone else who has painted a dark sky has put way too much chroma in the water (and this was a lesson about grays!). I really like the patterns in the water. Stu