Shadows

I watched a video on how to eliminate shadows when doing a lit head shot and I didn’t forget how to do it, we just didn’t have room to move the subject far enough away from the wall and still do the light painting we wanted to do. When I tried it, it didn’t work, because it wasn’t far enough. BUT the lighting of the wall, magenta and blue, behind him still worked beautifully and those are the shots we wanted anyway. And yes, I spent three hours and got one shot that I’ll use and I don’t care, it is a good shot and I got plenty of practice with my lights and gels. He’s thrilled. His mom is thrilled. 

Two more photo shoots to go - the fashion shoot Saturday and the cosplay,  fire shoot at the end of the month. 

I liked the RGB exhibit so much I just got tickets to go again next Sunday. 

Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Vera Jourova, praised Ukraine's fight against corruption. 
Ancient Scythian artefacts from museums in Russian-occupied Crimea have been returned to Ukraine after a legal dispute over ownership rights during which they spent almost a decade in the Netherlands, a Ukrainian museum said on Monday.
When Russia invaded Crimea, more than a thousand artifacts, including a solid gold Scythian helmet and golden neck ornament, were on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum. Ukraine and the museums located on the Moscow-controlled territory claimed ownership. "After almost 10 years of court hearings, artefacts from four Crimean museums that were presented at the exhibition 'Crimea: gold and secrets of the Black Sea' in Amsterdam have returned to Ukraine," the National Museum of History of Ukraine said.
There is video of a huge fire at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in central Russia, a facility the U.S. sanctions for its role in building, repairing, and upgrading Russian main battle tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and self-propelled artillery systems.