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Boutique Portrait Session with Akima and Steven. I hope that what you see is satisfactory. As usual, your critique, suggestions, and any and all helpful input are very welcome. :-)
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This was a rapid portrait photography session [“Rapid Shoot” for short.]. Yes, O-O-O, this 9 (nine), a4=Q portraits of an absolutely gorgeous Queen Annaliese in 4 minutes. I hope I did justice to capture the scent of this beautiful woman. There is nothing common about “common daisies” on your sunnies…
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Out of camera with two Adobe LrC. presets I made for this session. No, Adobe Ps., nothing, just a beautiful woman! I thank you Belle the model and Belle the photographer extraordinaire! What a life, meeting such a talent just like that. I am very lucky, thank you Belle. … and wardrobe change.
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Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934): The Most Influential Female Photographer of the 20th Century. Gertrude took up photography in middle age and was soon praised by the renowned promoter Alfred Stieglitz as “beyond dispute the leading portrait photographer in this country.” Gertrude Käsebier left her husband when she was already 37 years old.…
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THE highest praise — supposedly praise — which is ever applied to a print, is, that it does not look like a photograph, meaning the ordinary, hard, retouched reproduction, which people in general are accustomed to see. It is this latter thing, which the public have had so long as…
