Jessy’s Photo Shoot

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Having a photographer daughter means doing things that you’re not always comfortable with, but finding out that she’s really good at what she is doing and in the end, you are so pleased with the results.

Yes, I had to go and be shot.

She needed a photography model and the little twerp picked her mom. ME!!! Oh my gosh… a photo model in a college with a bunch of beautiful young people? Oh, let me tell you, kinda a challenge to one with some self esteem issues at times… (don’t we all?) But it was really nice of her to ask and I think she did a really nice job. (Considering her subject model! HAHAHA)

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We arrived on Tuesday afternoon and after a bit while the class set up three different studio areas in the big room, I was pleased that I was not the ONLY model! I was a little afraid that I would be the test guinea pig for the whole class! Yikes! As it was, I was just Jessy and her team’s model, so that was a little better. She had a couple fellow students that were her assistants for the shoot, helping with all the fancy lighting and posing me and helping to meter the light and all that stuff. The instructor is a very nice gentleman and his easy going demeanor helped to make me feel a little more at ease. It’s cool how much she’s learning and all. She’s got it, there is no doubt in my mind that she has picked something that can be a lifetime of enjoyment, employment and contentment!

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My first, ready to go pose. There is a title for this pose, but I forgot.
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Another slightly serious, but still a little smiley….
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This is my bluegrass empress pose, you know looking down on the little people, in a HAHA I’m the queen sort of pose! Hardly me, if ya knew me, but well, you do what the photographer and her team tell you to do!
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Being shot from above is a little intimidating, but I think she did a nice job! The lighting is nice.
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This one, I think is really cool. They had me playing with some props and such, and I can’t believe she caught the my camera bouncing it’s meter off her camera!! Pretty cool!
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Here’s my moody brooding tortured bluegrass musician pose. Can’t you feel the angst in my soul? HAHA…
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Ah, another looking down shot. Hmmm…. I would have been kinda worried about these poses in the past, but she’s done a nice job of making it comfortable and nice. I think…
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Here’s my new MySpace and Facebook shot! HAHAHA! You know, the goofy one with hands and half a face or whatever that people seem to favor. Actually, I kinda like this one, it’s fun. And you get to see my pretty ring that I love. I bought it shortly after my divorce because I felt very uncomfortable without a ring. So it’s been with me through some tough times and means a lot to me. Plus it’s celtic and silver and pretty.
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And after an hour of studio shooting, and the burned in flash of powerful lights in my retinas, I was getting ready to be done! I can see how models need to be paid good money, this is harder work than you think. Move here, stand there, do this, chin up, back straight, twist slightly, tilt here, do that, hold that, hold still, don’t move, come here, go there! HAHAHA…. it was tough work! But in the end, it was a hoot and I’m glad to have some nice shots that I can use in my business and social life that I’m not ashamed of. She did a very nice job and I can’t wait to see what she’s shooting next! I believe it’s product photography! So cool…. what fun!

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the banjo player for Deepwater Bluegrass, and the editor of BuckeyeBluegrass.com as well as the main graphic designer of the Westvon Publishing empire. She is a renaissance woman of many talents and has two lovely daughters and a rehab mobile home homestead to raise.

Comments

Jessy’s Photo Shoot — 4 Comments

  1. I think you look so lovely in the first shot! I HATE HATE HATE having my picture taken. I have a round face and the camera makes it so much worse!

  2. I have to go with the bluegrass empress pose, it’s got that cool factor. I like the one with the camera too, neat!