Mac was my 2nd 100portraits subject and I was a bit nervous taking his picture. Mac was a professional photographer and so being sent to him on my 2nd outing with so little experience was a shock. He turned out to be a great guy, and did all he could to help me, but I...
Looking towards your eventual aspirations as a photographer is essential when you are choosing your camera. Essentially there are 3 levels of aspiration even though the boundaries are a little blurred between them. They are: Level 1: Point and Shooter: Level 2: Enthusiast: Level 3: Expert or Professional Each different level of photographer expects different...
for those of you who don’t know me I did a project last year to photograph 100 people who chose each other in a sort of chain. I chose my favourite picture from each session and these went on my “100 portraits” blog. Now that I have the luxury of this blog I thought it...
My dear friend Martin at one of his favourite places, the Burrell Collection in Glasgow’s Pollock Park. We arrived as it was becoming dark so lighting was a difficult mix of background tungsten lighting with orange cast and a slight natural twilight coming in the window behind me. This gave me difficult colour cast and...
I am going to mention two things at once in this post, so I apologise in advance for not doing full justice to either. Here is a picture of friends Gerry and Elisabeth on the summit of the little gem of a mountain in the Trossachs called Ben A’n. I found it while doing a...
