As mentioned in the previous blog post an actress friend gave me some lighting equipment and I started practising portraits with a neighbour and my son. On Monday, Jane came around for her headshots and it went pretty well. She was great – very patient and posed like a pro. On her suggestion, after some […]
With an actress friend kindly giving me a couple of studio lights in exchange for me doing some headshots of her I thought I should start practising. I bought a backdrop and set up a mini studio at home. I’ve recently subscribed to Frames magazine and as well as the quarterly magazine they are running
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I wasn’t aware of the Impressions Photographic Gallery in Bradford until I stumbled across their website quite by accident. Looking around a fairly recent exhibition by Carolyn Mendelsohn caught my attention as it was about portraiture with an interesting angle. Here’s the overview: Made over a period of 6 years, Being Inbetween is a series of powerful
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I’m wanting to practise making portraits so am asking local people I know if they’d mind and today I got lucky with four saying yes. So it’s neighbour Din pictured above and then the three local joiners from West End.
Out with a group of friends today walking along the coastal path from Staithes. Grabbed the opportunity with some willing volunteers to take some portraits. Thank you Mark, Colin and Martin. Oh and Doris too!
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I’ve been thinking for a while what I could undertake as a photography project – something to give me a focus and would be worthwhile. I tend to do some of my most creative thinking at night, or more precisely in the middle of the night. Often these musings, which seem so amazing at 2am
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Travelling back from dropping three teenagers at Leeds Fest I diverted into York for an hour of street photography. Parking in the nearest free street parking, just beyond the hospital, I made my way down Gillygate. It’s one of my favourite streets in the city with several 18th century houses and today seems to be
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I’m still very much in the experimental phase, trying out (and enjoying) different photographic challenges – street, portrait, landscape, architecture – depending on where I am at the time. I haven’t found one yet that I think I’m just going to focus on and develop my own style which is the advice/ goal generally suggested.
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