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Preliminary Poses

7/30/2023

 
 With Lawrence's horse's armour finished it was time to try some poses for the painting for the eventual photo shoot. The plan is to photograph an artist actually working on the painting, so I need to have it underway for the photo shoot, because there's no way I can do it on the spot at the time. Which means coming up with a pose I like to do a painting of, and figuring out how I will need Lawrence and his horse to stand in the movie set.

First I tried him wearing his robes draped over one shoulder, and wearing his circlet crown, while holding the royal orb, and his sword and coronation crown resting on the table behind them...
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Then I tried him holding his sword while wearing his royal robe over both shoulders...
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I decided the tapestry in the background was too distracting, since it wouldn't even be there at the final photo shoot, so I needed something more 'architectural' with them standing on a series of steps. I put the sword into the background again, and tried Lawrence holding his crown.
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But the crown isn't rigid so proved almost impossible for him to hold properly.
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Even so, it made for some nice photos.
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But he probably wouldn't be holding his crown, so I went back to the original pose again...
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So I think I have the inspiration for the painting now, and I even got a nice collection of photos in the process.
Svenja
7/30/2023 11:33:46 am

I like the original pose the best. What a wonderful picture (this is and the painting will be).

Martha
7/30/2023 11:44:03 am

The very first and very last poses are pretty much the same, except the background is different and the candles are lit in the last one. So those will be the ones I base the painting on. Thankfully the artist will be in the middle of working on it so it doesn't have to be finished.

Dorothy
7/30/2023 01:43:49 pm

I agree, the last photograph is much like the one in the original painting. I like seeing the candles lit.

I look forward to seeing what the artist creates.

Martha
7/30/2023 02:26:52 pm

None of these are 'paintings', just preliminary photos for one.

It will still be a long time before the photo shoot, when we get to see the artist at work on an actual painting.

Donna
7/31/2023 12:38:12 pm

If it wasn't that you were using the original painting as the basis for the painting to come, it would be so difficult to chose which of the photos to use. They are all so nice and capture different aspects of Lawrence.

One of my favourites is the close-up of Lawrence looking at his horse, but that would never do as an official portrait, it's more like a photo that Baron in his modern photographer's role would take for the King's family album

Martha
7/31/2023 01:16:21 pm

Thanks. I was aiming for that 'one official portrait shot', but personally prefer the more candid shots myself. I especially like the ones of him where he's holding his crown, even though I prefer him without it. It's just that it has warmer lighting taken in late afternoon when the bright sun outside was making the old rose dining room walls cast a warm glow.

Anyways, I'm down with trying to capture the perfect pose, and have enough to start a painting. It will be interesting to see how the final photos will turn out.


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