Jamie in a tux

[Geary Wootten]

Wow, Kimberly! Such a handsome boy. And smart, too, eh?

Hey, quick question....if you don't mind. What's on your photo equipment list? I'm still shopping.

The lighting, focus, tones and proportions are just perfect!

Btw, I like the top one and the bottom one.

Best to you,
Gear

[Kimberly Dow]

Thanks gentlemen. I didn't expect the background to look so black.

It's a black piece of drapy cloth temporarily stapled to my diningroom wall. It has photographed gray before, but this time it is obviously really black looking.

The windows are to the left (looking at the photos) - right beyond a corner of the room. So, no lighting except that. About 5 pm I think. And my camera is a cheapie Fuji finepix with only 2.5 mp's. I have my new one all picked out, but haven't been able to get it yet. I had it on a tripod, but I kept picking it up - so no shutter-release. Lots of them are blurry, but if I am careful I can get them clear.

[Geary Wootten]

....."cheapie Fuji finepix" she says. Wow, again. OK.....may I buy it from you when you get your new one? Pretty incredible looking on this side of it I tell you.

The trouble I'm having lately with my film camera isn't really the film or the camera. It's that my favorite (quickie) shop guy sold out and the new owners bought brand new equipment and they just push one button and whatever spits out .....that's what you get. Milky pictures, yellowish, or bluish tints...etc., etc. blah....

Anywho.....nice going.

-G

[Mike McCarty]

Kim,

How about doing that last one down to the fourth button on his shirt, button his jacket (creating a V), and loose that additional fancy black apparatus that comes down in a V. Create that dark grayed background that Garth talked about and put all this in the center of a 20x16 and vignette out the bottom.

I bet you could knock this one out. It might be just what the doctor ordered after your brothel series.

This would be easy to test in photo shop.

[Kimberly Dow]

Geary - no lie - you dont want my camera. I dropped it soon after I got it and it has had duck tape on it ever since!

Mike - is this sort of what you had in mind? You are right about one thing - I could use something doctor prescribed after the bodello...

[Mike McCarty]

What's not to like?

[Michele Rushworth]

I like the first one, painted exactly as shown. Reminds me of a Sargent painting in the museum here in Seattle.