Okay, here is the update on the portrait of my daughter and cat. I'm going to reshoot using a tripod because the couple of photos that I like best are fuzzy. Yesterday (Thurs.) I had my portrait class and didn't get home until dinner time, too dark to take photos. But, at least I did some painting. Today, Friday, my daughter has a game and won't be home until dark. So, tomorrow is the day for the photo shoot. I find my artificial light set-up works better supplemented with some daylight coming in through the windows. And, tomorrow I'm going to pick the best photo and go with it! This is frustrating, taking an entire week to get a decent photo of my daughter and cat. I really had planned to
paint her this week, not spend the whole week picking a photo.
I'm only going to paint my daughter and it's going to be a head and shoulders only. With the holidays approaching I don't want to get in over my head so I'm going to try and paint my daughter, and then my son, before Christmas.
Whew, getting a good reference photo is a lot of work. I know it'll be a lot easier without the cat. And hopefully next time it'll be easier. If I'm ever going to paint non-family members, I need to be able to take a good reference photo without having 5 photo shoots, don't ya think!
I may try her with the cat again after the holidays.
Joan