I was up early because I actually had a paying photography
job for some friends Charles & Rommie Reddington. Charles is a prolific abstract painter and he
is looking to market prints of his paintings as well. I went over with my tripod and set up in an
area devoid of shadows to do the actual photography. Today was actually supposed to be cloudy, but
the sun was very bright, making our shooting trickier. Trying to shoot as straight as possible to
avoid having to re-skew all the photos later was a challenge.
Rommie made us a good lunch and then I photographed a
stunning coat she had woven on her loom.
The next hurdle was to do the processing of every shot under
Charles’ guidance depending on how exact he wanted colours, brightness, etc. He wanted everything as true to the original
colours as possible so it is a good thing he accompanied me back home and we
spent many hours processing the photos.
I had taken 2 shots of every painting using different settings, and each
of those in both JPEG and RAW format. We
then had the choices to pick the sharper shots to work on. No matter how close we were, we still had to
re-skew almost every photograph and then crop the image so it was all very
time-consuming, but Charles seemed extremely happy with the results.
If anyone is interested in any of his abstract paintings,
contact Charles Reddington at rommie.charles@gmail.com.
Oh, and we heard that our Coopera group’s lawyer scored a
minor victory in court yesterday saying:
Today we reached a legal triumph, SEPS lawyers admitted two
circumstances:
(a) they do not have financial information on COOPERA and
therefore Superintendete Jacome lied to the National Assembly, partners and
investors on losses and
(b) that the decision to liquidate COOPERA was made without a
process of defense and with an internal report only.
This doesn’t really have much hope of changing the status
quo anyway but it does make us feel more confident that they can’t possibly
hold our money much longer, or not give us back 100%.
That was today’s excitement.
Cheers, Al
Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/
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