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The last phase of Laurie’s hair style experiment was to put her hair up in a bun. She tried a couple of different styles of buns, and I used our mirrored wall for the background, and a single studio flash with an umbrella for the lighting. I’ve noticed that high key exposures seem to be all the rage in Laurie’s fashion magazines, so I pushed up the exposure to where the highlights are beginning to washout, which allowed me to get fairly good exposures in the mirror.

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Fashion Snaps

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Laurie tried a suggestion for wavy hair from one of her fashion magazines. She wanted me to do some quick photos without me taking the time to set up flashes and backdrops. I wanted to at least have a backdrop, but since I have my backdrop system at the office for a video project on Monday, I pulled out my old canvas backdrop, used a combination of light from the window and a small, shoe mount  flash unit on the camera, then started to quickly work through some poses, but the flash was taking several seconds to recycle (batteries were low from the Q~Lesque shoot o Wednesday), so I got a a few stern looks from Laurie for taking too long between shots. Our quickie fashion shoot turned out pretty well, even with the uncooperative flash.

 

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I can’t think of a better way to spend a lunch hour than photographing a beautiful woman. Meet Tiffany Paleo, make-up artist, actress, singer, wife and mother.  She’s as sweet as she is beautiful, and delightful to work with. For you women who like to be pampered, Tiffany is available at Katharoz Boutique to help you with all your skin care needs — 505-227-1224.

Laurie and I attended the annual holiday party for the Friends of Medieval Studies at UNM tonight, which featured a concert by Música Antigua de Albuquerque — they were wonderful.  Música Antigua de Albuquerque will be performing “Stella Nuova” on Saturday, December 22th at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 601 Montaño NW in Albuquerque.

Mark April 15-18, 2013 on your calendars. The 2013 Medieval Spring Lecture series is “Medieval Myths and Monsters”. This promises to be a superb lecture series not to be missed.

 

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Cats & Fashion Friday

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The dress rehearsal for the Messiah was tonight and it sounded wonderful with the orchestra and soloists. Tomorrow night’s performance is sold out, but there still might be tickets available for Sunday afternoon’s performance.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern thought Laurie’s new black velvety dress was a great color and texture and had to be involved in the photo shoot.

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