Posts from the category Portraiture
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Jo and I travelled to Scotland over the weekend to attend the wedding of Jo’s friend Alice to her RAF sweetheart Chris.
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Jo posed for me in the stairwell to an underground car park during last Sunday’s Swiss Strobist practical day, whilst I fiddled with the camera white balance to create an unusual effect.
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When Bern band Choo Choo were looking for a photographer for some new shots in June of this year, I was happy to step in and work with an art director to shoot the raw images for their website and new promotional material.
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The first set of photos from a portrait session in the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic in Montreux
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I return to the studio this weekend, to use full studio lighting for the first time in many years and share experience and ideas with a number of colleagues from the Swiss Strobist group.
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Second image from a shoot in Bern, inspired by 1980 classic horror film “The Shining”.
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Jo, photographed on a Sunday outing to the Gurten hilltop park on the outskirts of Bern.
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The first photo from a portrait session in the PROGR building in Bern, to which I will be returning from time to time as a new indoor location for my portrait and “theatrical” photography.
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I am continually on the lookout for interesting and characterful places to use in my photography and I am compiling a list of possible locations, to which I can return in the future and use in my photography.
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A technical review and explanation of the Helios 5 in 1 reflector/diffuser combination, which I added to my collection of equipment this week.
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After trying out the lighting technique I mentioned yesterday, of a large diffused light source right above the subject, I wanted to apply the technique to an outdoor location. When we set up the shots under cover in Interlaken (but outside), the first problem was that there were no suitably white walls to hand. If…
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I learned an important lesson in portrait photography last weekend: that of how ready the subject is to see themselves in an honest and detailed image, when they may be seeing themselves this way for the first time.
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It’s been a while since I’ve been in the studio and taken high contrast black and white portraits, so Jo helped me this evening to practice.
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Photos from an all-afternoon series of portrait sessions in Zurich during September 2009, finally online as a complete set.
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Another in my series of One Frame Movie photographs, of Bernese video podcaster Manuel “Sprain” Reinhard.
