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Maybe one not-really-criticism… as a picture, it's quite cluttered. Especially Eowyn is disapearing against the background. It's hard not to get lost in all the detail.
I know it would be a hell to combine the realism you obviously go for and more of a storyteller's aproach (concentrating on the story the pic is telling)…and if you were to take a photo on the spot, it would look similarly cluttered.
In this piece, I feel that some of these goals were accomplished, not all. To me, war should be messy, chaotic, and if your in the thick of it, very unfocused. You would be swivelling your head left and right trying to grasp what is happening. You would not have time to stop and stare and contemplate.
My means of adding realism and storytelling, is making my subject matter stand out. They tend to dominate by scale. Here I wanted to make Eowyn almost insignificant and for the viewer to identify with the Witch King, almost like riding behind him and feeling omnipotent.
You are not alone in wishing to see more focus on the foreground so I did pull this piece out again to add to the saturation of colour and to distinguish the foreground more. I'll upload it soon.
In this picture, I think you could have worked more with the perspective and light. Eowyn is quite far away from the Witch King and the pic is quite uniform in lighting. If you put them closer and looked on her more downward, you would get through the feeling of insignificance she has in the eyes of the Witch King and simplified the background. You could represent the chaos of a battle field with details instead of figures then - the grass would be beaten down and covered with blood, she is practically standing on the dead horse's body! If the focus still wasn't enough, you could use light - I can't recall the scene from the book completely, but wasn't it dark already? The light would be the Orod Ruin and probably fires. You would get color contrast too - her uniform is green, isn't it?
Well, just my thoughts. Maybe that would be too theatrical for you. But it's a way how to work with it - much like photographers use composition and light situation to accentuate the scene.