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Sorry if I'm being Blabby McBlabberpants on Twitter today. I don't know what's gotten into me! Besides the ink, that is.
Had two portrait sessions yesterday. One was steampunky, which was fun except for the part where the fog machine wouldn't work. Boooo! I did get to try out my DIY beauty dish, though, and I rather like it, so far. I should repaint it, though, because I didn't do the most perfect job the first time.
The second one was a senior portrait, which went fine. We had also to use someone else's studio, since ours isn't ready yet. It was mostly fine, but he neglected to mention that he had a ton of crap in the space, so I felt kind of limited by that, and it was tough to get separation when I wanted it. I did get to do some pretty lovely natural light window shots, though, so that was a nice change of pace! I usually only got to do that on location shoots, since our old studio had no windows.
Mostly, I just felt bad for the kid during the senior portrait, because she's playing Ophelia in her school production of Hamlet, and they open this week, so she was in rehearsals all-freakin'-day on Friday and Saturday. She was trying hard to put energy into the shoot, but I could tell she was really exhausted. She'll do great, though, and she certainly has an Ophelia look to her. Y'know, in the, "pretty, ethereal, and sort of elven," sense, not the, "batshit crazy," sense. ;)
I spent much of my Saturday building the wushu center's web site, and it's not done, but I made the very-necessary large dent in the project that I needed to. I also went to animation night! I think I made myself sleepy with too much beer, though, because I didn't make it much past midnight before I started having trouble staying awake. God, I'm such an old lady these days.
Oh, and dancing on Friday night was *awesome*. The Goodfoot is a good place for booty-shakin', and the DJ mixed enough good and interesting tunes to make me wish I had an extra couple bucks to tip him. (that's rare)
Anyhoo, lots going on this week. My folks are coming in this weekend, and they have not seen my house yet, so that might be, uh, interesting. We also have more portrait sessions this week, and I got a huuuuge print order from one of our July weddings, so I'll be busting my hump on that.
Fortunately, I just learned today that I get Wednesday off from The Job for Veteran's Day! That makes me a happy monkey.
Had two portrait sessions yesterday. One was steampunky, which was fun except for the part where the fog machine wouldn't work. Boooo! I did get to try out my DIY beauty dish, though, and I rather like it, so far. I should repaint it, though, because I didn't do the most perfect job the first time.
The second one was a senior portrait, which went fine. We had also to use someone else's studio, since ours isn't ready yet. It was mostly fine, but he neglected to mention that he had a ton of crap in the space, so I felt kind of limited by that, and it was tough to get separation when I wanted it. I did get to do some pretty lovely natural light window shots, though, so that was a nice change of pace! I usually only got to do that on location shoots, since our old studio had no windows.
Mostly, I just felt bad for the kid during the senior portrait, because she's playing Ophelia in her school production of Hamlet, and they open this week, so she was in rehearsals all-freakin'-day on Friday and Saturday. She was trying hard to put energy into the shoot, but I could tell she was really exhausted. She'll do great, though, and she certainly has an Ophelia look to her. Y'know, in the, "pretty, ethereal, and sort of elven," sense, not the, "batshit crazy," sense. ;)
I spent much of my Saturday building the wushu center's web site, and it's not done, but I made the very-necessary large dent in the project that I needed to. I also went to animation night! I think I made myself sleepy with too much beer, though, because I didn't make it much past midnight before I started having trouble staying awake. God, I'm such an old lady these days.
Oh, and dancing on Friday night was *awesome*. The Goodfoot is a good place for booty-shakin', and the DJ mixed enough good and interesting tunes to make me wish I had an extra couple bucks to tip him. (that's rare)
Anyhoo, lots going on this week. My folks are coming in this weekend, and they have not seen my house yet, so that might be, uh, interesting. We also have more portrait sessions this week, and I got a huuuuge print order from one of our July weddings, so I'll be busting my hump on that.
Fortunately, I just learned today that I get Wednesday off from The Job for Veteran's Day! That makes me a happy monkey.
