Perhaps a sequel to the Daniel DiLella
Union League Portrait thread from two years back, here is a recent portrait of Fred Haab, who just finished his term as the club president.
Fred Haab
oil on linen
40 x 31 inches
Collection of the Union League of Philadelphia.
The process went pretty smoothly once I figured out my new camera and strobes. Mr. Haab quickly assumed this pose in the gentleman's smoking parlor, and liked it so much in the digital capture on my laptop, that he shook my hand and went back to work. Having not moved my camera tripod, I took more pictures of various ways of lighting the background, and settled on this combination in the painting.
This portrait was afforded a two-staged unveiling. The first with the Haab family, over an elaborately catered dinner with a thirty-foot lavishly set table and five courses of wines. The second, with the Union League of Philadelphia board of directors, over a much more lavishly catered dinner with a fifty-foot long very elaborately set table, and five more courses of wines. Well, you get the idea! It was strictly Black-Tie.
I look forward to your thoughts.
Garth
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