Oh, you did well to crop where you did. This is great, with the artist surrounded by the studio, and the fact that we cannot see his face is good. But ...the real picture is the cropped one. You chose well. Voted
I thought this was a photograph of a guy painting when I first looked at it. Even now I am not a hundred present sure it is a painting. It is, isn't it? The detail in the hand on the other photo is amazing. I really like this one too. V