The Artist, a photo from Tokyo, Kanto

Photographer's Note

This lady was painting the Tokyo International Forum Glass Tower sitting in front of it. The painting was marvelous but the way she was concentrating on it impressed me more. I saw many passerby clicking her picture.

PS: It was a gloomy day, so the picture hasn't come out sharp. Any suggestions on how to improve the sharpness of the picture, I tried Auto color in PS but it hasn't improved much.

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nwoehnl (122) 2004-02-06 8:12

Rabin - photos of painters are always interesting subjects, because on the canvas we can see an artist's interpretation of the scene behind, or - as in your shot - we can even see the scene on the canvas only. The angle from which you took this is good, and we can sense how focused she is in her work.

I have tried a workshop to show you an alternate version of this. A bit of a different crop, and some more colors and sharpness. Hope you like it!

I'm also adding this into my "Artists at work" theme.

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mdchachi (1612) 2004-02-07 13:19

Not much you can do about the sharpness; the motion blur resulted from the slow shutter speed. Too bad, it could have been a good shot.

Klapaucius (627) 2006-01-19 7:30

It is still a really good shot and a great, almost personal, moment between artist and art... but the sharpness lets it down.

All I can suggest is experimenting with filters and different levels of sharpness and contrast, in order to find better clarity. You could try putting the image into sepia tone, which might work rather nicely.
I may well attempt a Workshop for this image when I get the time.

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