Send in the Clown: Miss Graves

[RKDauph]

Miss Graves teaches kindergarten. We asked her class of 5 year olds to draw pictures of her as a clown for the shoot.

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We had a blast.

Lyndsie was SUCH a sport.

Note to self - don't use white balloons....

[idnurse41]

Love these!!

[camera shy]

kids will love these.

[Fireball]

Wow, that last one is spectacular! Cute photos.

[popawalker]

Very colorful and fun. I agree that last one is up there.

[RKDauph]

Thanks all. Here a few of the kid's drawings.

[Redneck]

Wonderful images, great work!

[Rich Gibson]

Terrific shots. What a blast.

[RKDauph]

A few more:

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No more I promise.

[mkothare]

Yay, the bubble machine. Pictures came out great.

[RKDauph]

Milind, I tried it with the white background with no luck. Would backlighting the bubbles help?

[mkothare]

Backlighting or side-lighting, as you have done, I believe, are necessary to show the bubbles through.

What's more important, I think, is contrasting the bubble color with the background. That's why they showed up better against the black. Any darker background may have worked. Need to research if there is a way of coloring the bubbles based on tinting the solution used. That may show them up better against white.

If the bubbles were bigger or shot from a close distance and had (as seen sometimes) their pinkish/reddish edge, that may contrast well with high key white background, too. Maybe worthwhile trying the clown blowing a large bubble.

[snydersnapshots]

Miss Graves looks like a fun teacher who enjoys her job. What district? Our teachers would NEVER get away with such "clowning around" in the Klein ISD. Kindergarten is serious business down here.

[RKDauph]

Ken, Lyndsie was a lot of fun and came with some good ideas. We tried to come up with photographs she could use in the classroom with her students - lightbulb (Ideas), Please be quite (Shhh).

[Stargazer77517]

These are great, very fun images.