I must be becoming more confident with my portraiture. My stylish colleague Wilma was on the phone on these stairs today at work, and I asked her if I could take a picture of her. She kindly agreed and we reproduced her natural pose an hour or so later. While setting up the shot, her...
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...
My dear friend Alison allowed me to do a portrait while staying on Mull. This is my first portrait since finishing my 100-portraits project and it felt great to be doing people pictures again. Alison’s expression is wonderfully enigmatic…
Well I thought I’d start my blog with two lovely cats belonging to friends. Rosie is very elderly and the haughty facial expression is entirely characteristic of her. Tosh is a younger cat with a real wildness about him, but he’s mellowing. Both taken in indoor tungsten light with my Canon 40 D and Sigma...
I would have been more impressed if you had managed to take a photo of a QIO who was not on the phone. You would have needed to a fast speed shot. 🙂
A wonderful photograph of my mum – she looks great (not that she doesn’t always). The tones, lighting and stair background are great.