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Marvin, the Paxton images are beautiful, incredibly lush, thanks for posting them. The light is great... another thing I notice is how he's looking down at the women a little so that they are looking up at him making their eyes larger and somehow more compelling- A very flattering way to view women and children. And of course we are used to looking down at children, so it is natural to photograph this way. If you get just at eye level I always feel they look a little too mature.
Well, I hate to work from these photos after I just got a definite thumbs down from you! :-) I told my client I'd like to have a few more choices and would be happy to take more photos. She says she likes these with the exception of the baby's expression (we'd discussed closing her jaw and mouth a touch) . She loves the light on the baby's photo! I kind of like it too, but maybe just because I want to try something different. I'll tell her a more experienced painter than I suggests better reference photos. I just did this drawing of my daughter from a photo I took yesterday. This is the light I almost always use....
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