Tough resource photos

[Matthew Severson]

After Steven Sweeney gave me the url for the website of Don Greytak (pencil artist) I was inspired to do some drawings of my family members as children while playing with some of the farm animals. Well, because childhood is far behind everyone in my family (I am the youngest), taking new pictures is out of the question of course; so I went through the old photo albums. My question is- do you ever find yourself with a great pose, but the picture is blurry and small?

This picture I was orginally going to do of myself... the little blond on the right, but I realized that my sister was a in an excellent pose on the right. So I would like to do her instead, but the photo is small and blurry, and half the kid (refering to the young goat) is cut off.

Matthew

[Kimberly Dow]

Boy, finding a good photo to paint from in the photo album is tough. I personally would not paint from this. Lack of detail and if it's the girl you are interested in - as you said the goat is missing, at least part of it.

Keep trying Matthew, try taking your own with light from a window perhaps. Read the threads here on photography. It's an eye opener. There is some great info. here.