Crisis Averted!

gnooj

Folks, I just want to say thanks to everyone who posts on this forum. The information here was a valuable resource for me this week.

My sister, Gretchen, called early this week needing photos of her ex-step-daughter, Autumn (it's complicated). Anyway, Gretchen informs me that Autumn is getting ready to graduate high school, invitations need to go out quickly, and she doesn't have pictures.

I explain to Gretchen that I've not done many portraits, I do more landscape, macro, you know non-human stuff, blah, blah, blah.... To which Gretchen informs me that she doesn't really care about what my current self-proclaimed artistic genre interests are and that she was up against a major time crunch and that I wasn't exactly her first choice either.

Gotcha. Where do you want to meet and what time?

Luckily, I had almost a day to prepare for this so I headed to the People forum and searched the posts here of several of my favorite photographers for ideas and inspiration. Lots of great photographers here and a wonderful resource.

Both Gretchen and Autumn are pleased with the photo shoot. Crisis averted.

Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot. The others are on http://gnooj.smugmug.com/gallery/8109335_oeScS#528628104_2yuny

Nikolai

gnooj wrote:

Folks, I just want to say thanks to everyone who posts on this forum. The information here was a valuable resource for me this week.

My sister, Gretchen, called early this week needing photos of her ex-step-daughter, Autumn (it's complicated). Anyway, Gretchen informs me that Autumn is getting ready to graduate high school, invitations need to go out quickly, and she doesn't have pictures.

I explain to Gretchen that I've not done many portraits, I do more landscape, macro, you know non-human stuff, blah, blah, blah.... To which Gretchen informs me that she doesn't really care about what my current self-proclaimed artistic genre interests are and that she was up against a major time crunch and that I wasn't exactly her first choice either.

Gotcha. Where do you want to meet and what time?

Luckily, I had almost a day to prepare for this so I headed to the People forum and searched the posts here of several of my favorite photographers for ideas and inspiration. Lots of great photographers here and a wonderful resource.

Both Gretchen and Autumn are pleased with the photo shoot. Crisis averted.

Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot. The others are on http://gnooj.smugmug.com/gallery/8109335_oeScS#528628104_2yuny

I think you did very good! And your subject (Autumn) can be a terrific in modeling, she just needs a bit of polishing on posing.

marikris

Very nice! Glad that it worked out, and your photos turned out great! (She's a little awkward in #2, though )

I love #1 and 3!

rhondavid

Hey, maybe you need to do more shootings of "humans". Great series. Looks like you and Amber connected; she did a great job of posing and you did a great capturing the shot.

Qarik

great capytures..I love the color/mood of the set.

rwells

Good job with these