I don’t have much experience with studio style pictures, and to be completely honest I have a complex relationship with them. When they are done well, they seem to distill the very essence of a person through the tiniest tilt of the head and varying of expression. When they are done badly, they look cheesy...
I’m really looking forward to seeing the 100 prints in the cafe’s space, if you happen to be in the area I can attest that their coffee and baking won’t dissapoint regardless of how the pictures go down! I really like Martin’s portrait as a background for the poster. Nice and simple, direct and engaging.
Meeting Ratnadevi was a lovely and thought provoking experience. She had studied for a doctorate in art and was really interesting to chat with about art. She gave me some great insights into why I was doing the “100 portraits” project. This would have been my second choice of portrait from that session. The painting...
I went walking with friends today up the incredibly cold Ben Dubh above Luss. With wind chill, (and there was plenty of it), it was bitterly cold and way sub zero at the top. All layers were on! I carried my 40D and my LX3 on a waistbelt on my rucksack and despite the flat...
It’s really instructive for me to look back at the pictures from my session with Seg. It was a day with really direct sunlight, and I simply hadn’t learned how to cope with the effect of direct sunlight on skin. Most of the pictures I took in the sunlight were totally blown out on the...
