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Mary Sparrow · 01-31-2004, 08:42 AM

A lesson in patience...AAAAACK.

Please, please tell me this can work, I don't know if I can take reshooting these two balls of FIRE! Learning to take proper photos is challenging enough, but when you throw in a two year old that absolutely wants to do the opposite of what you ask, well, I'm shaking my head.

I bet we took no less than 300 photos yesterday of these two, and while we got LOTS of cute pics, very very few would work for a portrait.

These are the two expressions that the mother loved, this is the look she wants.

My questions are first of all, would you paint from these at all? Second, is it a problem in your opinion that the lighting is so different and the poses are not similar?

We experimented with all sorts of lighting, and of course the pictures that turned out of each child did not match up.

Here is Brooke:

01-31-2004, 08:42 AM	#1
Mary Sparrow EDUCATIONAL MODERATOR Juried Member Joined: Jul 2001 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,120	Brooke and Grace A lesson in patience...AAAAACK. Please, please tell me this can work, I don't know if I can take reshooting these two balls of FIRE! Learning to take proper photos is challenging enough, but when you throw in a two year old that absolutely wants to do the opposite of what you ask, well, I'm shaking my head. I bet we took no less than 300 photos yesterday of these two, and while we got LOTS of cute pics, very very few would work for a portrait. These are the two expressions that the mother loved, this is the look she wants. My questions are first of all, would you paint from these at all? Second, is it a problem in your opinion that the lighting is so different and the poses are not similar? We experimented with all sorts of lighting, and of course the pictures that turned out of each child did not match up. Here is Brooke: Attached Images