Table portraits 17.

So, this is the second pile of photos from the autumn 2021 photo batch. As with the previous ones, these were also taken on a table under a yellow worklamp and I could whine about how that ruins the pictures. Maybe nobody wants to read than again and again, so let's just go straight to the shots instead. Many got heavily edited and many are black and white.

This horse came to me in the same order where was Myrcho. I no longer remember what I thought about the Marabella mold or this model before I decided I wanted it, but something in the fact that she's a solid red bay with no markings appealed to me. I have understood the hobby community generally claims average bays with zero white are boring, but that just is not true... I like the variety in bays, and they are nice to paint. I also often feel that if I add a lot of white, that white will basically cover all the details there are or what I worked hard on. So here's one solid bay enthusiast, blll! That is why the model's name is "I Just Want The Boring Things", alias Floora. 

Reducing the yellow with blue.

The original version is much redder and yellower than this.

The backdrop is still the one I painted by myself with watercolors, to avoid the solid white which I got fed up with already. I have to say, the next time I paint a blue texture for photography, it should be of the delicious blue already in the palette. Hmmm. I actually do have washable markers I could use for that! No need to mess with watercolors... Hah. Another color option could be black and white, for a neutral paper with only textures. I could not use these on the table.

Most recognize this mold when it gets photographed from the left side, but I feel the right side, where there is no mane on the way, is much less seen and can cause a "wait, what mold is that?" reaction, at least in me. Unusual angles seen in people's photos is one thing which sometimes makes me want a sample of a certain mold. 

I like this angle.

At one point I decided to put Floora's personal halter on her. This halter is one of the older pieces, judging by how the throatlatch is not rolled (twofolded) and how the hooks are of thinner wire than what I prefer now. 

Had to record also that in black and white, of course. I often like to take the same kind of photo with varying settings.

The next post in the series will include a holiday model.