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Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng
Marcus, that's really a tough situation if you cannot get at least one photo session with your subject. Did the liason officer give a reason why he would not permit it? If portraiture is not common in Singapore, he might not realize what is involved. Many people think that the artist can work magic!
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You're spot-on about how people feel about artists - esp portrait artists. If i have a penny every time i hear "you can draw from just photographs right?"
Like in this case of the officer, the liaison was pretty uptight with the "security issues", and with another reason that "t's a surprise gift for him" thrown in his reasoning, he kept me away from photographing him personally.
So "my photographs only" rule seems to be the mainstay in Singapore, for what's left in the portraiture biz. I'm on the quest to convert people to the right approach for portraiture, and in many ways as an artist i feel like i'm a early Spanish pastor, trying to convert savages into Christianity!
Thanks for your tip on phtalo blue. I feel like a new convert to the use of that color already!
