The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

More snow on the way. I'm running out of days to bump back the last day of school to.


I'm stressing a little about the maternity shoot I have this afternoon. They didn't send me reference poses until this morning, and they want a bunch of stuff that's better suited for the studio. Which would be cool if I had one of those and if we hadn't agreed to meet at a local park.

C'est la vie. I'm game planning now.

Grab a few in the park ... but reschedule the studio stuff.

 

[smoke665]

The maternity shoot is a beautiful thing,

It can be when tastefully done and in your case it obviously was, but there have been some I've seen so tasteless that my only thought was WTH were they thinking. Guess that same comment could apply to several things though.

 

[SquarePeg1]

I just don’t “get” the whole concept of the maternity shoot.

The maternity shoot is a beautiful thing, and it celebrates and commemorates a woman's roughly nine-month struggle to gestate another life from her own body. The photos preserve for all time the several major changes that the woman's body and face undergo as she carries the baby, unborn, within her body. The photos celebrate the miracle that is the creation of life. My wife was handicapped for life in a terrible auto accident about a year after we were first married. But 13 years later, we decided to have our one and only child. We did a couple of maternity shoots. The photos are utterly irreplaceable memories. Maybe some people can't understand something as simple as celebrating the creation of another human life.

I wasn’t saying there’s anything wrong with it just that I don’t get the appeal, especially from the expectant mom’s perspective. Maybe because I had a difficult pregnancy, it’s jot something I would have been in the mood for had it been a thing back then.

 

[tirediron]

I just don’t “get” the whole concept of the maternity shoot.

The maternity shoot is a beautiful thing, and it celebrates and commemorates a woman's roughly nine-month struggle to gestate another life from her own body. The photos preserve for all time the several major changes that the woman's body and face undergo as she carries the baby, unborn, within her body. The photos celebrate the miracle that is the creation of life. My wife was handicapped for life in a terrible auto accident about a year after we were first married. But 13 years later, we decided to have our one and only child. We did a couple of maternity shoots. The photos are utterly irreplaceable memories. Maybe some people can't understand something as simple as celebrating the creation of another human life.

You should be writing sales literature for studios!!!

 

[terri58 1]

The new glasses. Not sure if I like them.

These look great! I like them better than the old ones. You did good! (Though I completely understand the second-guessing; I do it too.)

 

[terri58 1]

I just don’t “get” the whole concept of the maternity shoot.

The maternity shoot is a beautiful thing, and it celebrates and commemorates a woman's roughly nine-month struggle to gestate another life from her own body. The photos preserve for all time the several major changes that the woman's body and face undergo as she carries the baby, unborn, within her body. The photos celebrate the miracle that is the creation of life. My wife was handicapped for life in a terrible auto accident about a year after we were first married. But 13 years later, we decided to have our one and only child. We did a couple of maternity shoots. The photos are utterly irreplaceable memories. Maybe some people can't understand something as simple as celebrating the creation of another human life.

I wasn’t saying there’s anything wrong with it just that I don’t get the appeal, especially from the expectant mom’s perspective. Maybe because I had a difficult pregnancy, it’s jot something I would have been in the mood for had it been a thing back then.

Agreed. Some women take to pregnancy beautifully - they look glossy, healthy, etc. "Some" of us *ahem* have extended nausea, facial breakouts and blotchiness, and don't feel like too much picture-taking during that time. I also had a completely natural childbirth, and did very well - but I burst a couple of blood vessels around the eyes and, for a couple of weeks after, looked like I'd been a car accident. It just wasn't a fabulous glowing time for me. No staged pics for a few weeks there.

 

[davidharmier60]

Ah, the joys of child raising. Something I know nothing about. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. Seems like a lot of good and BAD have come with these things.

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[davidharmier60]

Dang. The oven went crazy. There was to be roast with potatoes, carrots, onions and gravy. We ended up with all but the gravy.


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[espresso2x]

Bon appétit !

 

[smoke665]

Let's see Fire Department BBQ yesterday, required a considerable sacrifice on my part as chief quality control supervisor. All those samples. I couldn't eat anything for supper. Then for lunch grilled BBQ sandwiches and for supper a BBQ Baked potatoe. Think it will be several days before BBQ will be on the menu again.

 

[davidharmier60]

I wish you all a good night and a better tomorrow.

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[Tony744]

Night all.

 

[jr967076]

It does not matter what the picture looks like and what kind of angle it is as long as the emotion and the intent towards the viewer is being delivered very well. In my opinion that is how I define the photography.

 

[jcdeboever]

The new glasses. Not sure if I like them.

I think they're fine. I always take the wife when I get mine. I have no idea what to get, I always pick ones that create the response, "oh, hell no". This is coming from a guy that wears socks with sandals. I put my foot down on that though, my feet are sensitive. Glasses, I need direction because if it were me, I'd look like a fat Buddy Holly. My wife calls my choices in glasses, "birth control glasses", cause I ain't getting none wearing those....

 

[JonA_CT]

Maternity shoot went fine yesterday. Hopefully, I'll get some editing done tonight and I'll post a couple.

A migraine took me out last night. It's been awhile, but luckily I still had some of my medicine kicking around, which means that my head doesn't hurt this morning. Unfortunately, the side effect for me is feeling kind of hungover this morning. Foggy, spacey, a little shaky. I'll take it over the migraine.