Mia in the Portrait Studio
A portrait photography session in my photo studio
When first shooting studio portrait photography at home I needed models to work with to start building a portfolio. Mia was Eimear’s math tutor right around when COVID hit. She helped my triathlon coach’s daughter and came highly recommended. I always loved that she saved up for her own car while still in high school. Pretty sure she’s still driving the red VW bug around town.
So when I started looking for someone to help with getting the portrait business going, Mia stood out as the perfect subject. In a word: she’s stunning. Nice lighting, good posing, and clean backgrounds all combine to work with all people every time.
I love to practice doing poses for women. This is a very challenging aspect of portrait photography for me. I don’t like controlling people and am trained to look for candid moments as a photojournalist. My feeling about whatever may challenge us in life is to practice until it no longer challenges but becomes an asset. I do need more practice and would love to have the opportunity to do so at any time. Might even be willing to do more free portraits just to get in some practice.
The next studio project will be to paint the walls white and hang some portrait photography on those walls. A recent client pointed those needs out and I‘m always hungry for input and help. Right now the walls are fairly blank and not white except for a dry erase board and a world map for Eimear to look at when she’s in the room working on the computer.
The world map helps me too because I always enjoy trying to find the most remote, crazy location to explore on the internet and dream of visiting. Or skip. I’ve found a few south Atlantic islands nobody ever visits. I recently listened to an audiobook about Admiral Nimitz and was curious about the shipping lines we had to protect for ourselves and attack against the Japanese during WW2. I always love that stuff. So in short, the map stays at all costs.
Speaking of Nimitz, here’s a statistic: American submarines sunk approximately 54.6% of all Japanese ships sunk in the war, yet constituted a very small amount of money spent, crews required, or number of submarines. We always hear about the aircraft carriers, but it was the lowly submarines that did the heavy lifting. I love that stuff for some reason.
That said, here’s some more portraits of Mia from our portrait session together.
