Trenholm Artists Guild Feb. 08 Meeting Photos

Stacy Morgan, Model ............... Ric Standridge, Speaker....

Photos courtesy of Jerry Bridgers, Trenholm Artists Guild

Jerry Bridgers Photo and Ric Standridge Painting

Monday evening Feb. 11, 2008 the Trenholm Artists Guild had the TAG meeting. Our guest speaker was Ric Standridge from Greenville, SC. He told us many interesting stories about his days in NYC and finding his way back to SC. He has painted with many greats and near greats. He told us it's more creative to capture the spirit of our subject than to just copy it. Ric says he normally paints in oils to music. He didn't elaborate what type of music and we didn't have any music playing, but he painted anyway. One of our members Stacy Morgan was asked to model and she did. Her reward for being such a good model ...Ric gave her the painting!


Our photographer, Jerry Bridgers combined his photo manipulation skills with Ric's painting to create this image. It's not on the TAG website and I thought some may enjoy seeing it. For more pictures click on the TAG website link, above.

yours truly,
Jean Bourque
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Photography Tips by Jerry Bridgers

I once did a "How to Photograph your paintings" set on Flickr. I took it back off about a year ago. Because of our presentation by Jay Gross, I returned the Sets to flickr as a reinforcement to his presentation. These photos are in a collection of 3 sets. One set deals with camera and light set up, one with correcting distortion and a third on color balance. I included three photos on quick color shifts for photos that don't quite match the painting. If you are interested, the collection is located at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridgeimages/collections/72157600062718642/

A group of photographs that I retouched are located at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridgeimages/sets/72157600086667825/ I tried to include photographs that show examples of various type of retouching from "fixing" to "photo collage"
I also put a retouching example at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridgeimages/sets/72157600095279229/ This Set has eight photos that show the changes as they were made when I removed a sign from a photograph.

Best wishes

Jerry BridgersColumbia, SC
Paintings and Graphics located at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridgeimages/collections/

Thank you Jerry for sending this!

Jeanee at www.jeanbourque.com