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I started my career in 1987 as an editorial illustrator. At that time, I used a camera to take reference images for my illustrations. In 2004, after I started showing my plein air landscape paintings in galleries, I bought a Nikon D70 to take file photos of my paintings. At the time I hadn’t considered using the camera for anything else, but then I had an idea for a painting that required a camera to get reference. Normally I painted from life, but in this case, that would involve a model standing on a mountaintop for a couple of days. It was impractical, so I pulled out my D70, took about 50 reference shots, assembled them into a single image, and made the painting from those. After making ...

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Andrew Paquette started his career in 1986 as an editorial artist in New York City. Since then, he has worked in the video game, comic book, and feature film industries in various art roles, including as art director. More recently, he has taken up photography, first as a hobby but now as a serious creative outlet, with particular interest in commercial portrait photography.
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