I missed 2 days postings since I was in Aberdeen visiting my brother and sis-in-law. The first thing to say about that was that I should be drummed out of the photobloggers league; our excellent hosts arranged for us to go to see Heidi Talbot in a local venue and it was a superb gig...
Roslyn was the 9th person in my 100 portraits project last year. She was chosen by Ossian. I enjoyed photographing her red hair against the wood of the stable doors where we met. She was great fun and a really easy going subject. The bright sunlight that day would have been hard for me to...
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...
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...
Sadly as I revealed in my “lightroom corruption” entry I have lost a lot of the original session with Gillian to corruption. This is my favourite from what I could rescue other than what I chose already from my original project. I must say it’s fun on a rainy Sunday going back and looking at...
I’m regretting giving up the chance of a portrait Matthew – next time you are up here I’ll go for it. There, you’ve got it in writing! 🙂
These are great photos – I think I agree with your comments re the portrait format, but the landscape portrait is a lovely one.