Saturday, June 14, 2008

Saturday Photo Shoot :) + Summers Bounty Finished

This AM went to play "model" for my husband who went to the Cincinnati Camera Club on Vine Street. They set up for portraits and I was the only BRAVE wife who went - so it was interesting to have 1/2 dozen male photogs telling you, "turn this way, chin up a bit, eyes this way, tilt your head," etc. etc. I have never had that much attention! ha-ha There is a LOT of information to learn about doing portrait photography and lots of things to "see" to get a good shot - and when you're working with this face, well...all I can say is I was brave enough to do it but I would never be happy having snaps of me all the time - I'll leave that to the gorgeous people like Angie and Brad :) It did give me more of a sense of what our models feel like in our figure drawing class (no, I was never without clothing!!!). It's not that easy.

And I finished Summer's Bounty without killing the whites!!! YAY!!!







8 comments:

Michelle Himes said...

Yummy!

"Summer's Bounty" looks wet and delicious.

Sandy Maudlin said...

AHHHHHHHH! REFRESHINGLY BEAUTIFUL!

Watercolors by Susan Roper said...

Yes, you did! No killing of the whites occured in this exercise..Nice handling of the fruit and they do look joiucy!

Great painting...take a bow....Susan

Deb Léger said...

Looks beautiful, Rhonda! I especially love the watermelon.

Will they give you some of the shots they took?

Anonymous said...

oh YUMMY!!!! Those oranges Rhonda those oranges are luscious!

Teresa

RH Carpenter said...

Thanks so much, Michelle, Sandy, Deb, Susan and Teresa! I did it! ha-ha So, yes, Susan, I'm taking a bow (hey, it doesn't happen that frequently so I'm going to enjoy the feeling).
Deb, Jerry took all the photos except a few so I have them all - the whole gallery of sad things - aging is not a pretty sight. I can see beauty in older women all over but can't see it in my face, just see the wrinkles and sags and these stupid squinty Clint Eastwood eyes - do you feel lucky, punk, do ya? Where's my little black cigar and sombrero.......

Ann Buckner said...

Great finish, Rhonda!

RH Carpenter said...

Thanks, Ann :)