Portrait Photography

Sunday I was down at High Hand Gallery for Artful Sunday, but also had scheduled four artists for their portrait sittings.  I had made this offer as a free portrait sitting so the artists would have an image of themselves they could put up on the High Hand Gallery web page, and were also free to use it otherwise.

It was basically a really hot day in the sheds, let me tell you!!  There isn't any air conditioning for starters.  What they do have are six foot wide or so water cooler fans but they are located out in the sheds, not in the gallery!  There were several places I could take the photos against rustic back drops and that is what I used. I generally prefer natural lighting and even that was a little risky when it came to 3:00 in the afternoon.  But it all worked out fine.  I was able to get some fairly good shots in and most importantly, the artists were pretty much pleased with what they saw on my camera's LCD monitor.  Here is one of Patricia, who agreed to let me post it here!

Yesterday I spent the majority of the morning and early afternoon uploading the portrait images from this shoot, to the computer, working on them, and copying them to disk for each artist.  I will drop those off at the gallery tomorrow.

I also have my gelatin silver prints from Europe ready to deliver to High Hand tomorrow for the new re-hang  for July and August.  And I will drop off my one image to KVIE on my way to the airport to pick up my sisters!  We'll be having fun this week!