One of my main areas of interest, using my candid “street” approach, is to take “environmental portraits” of musicians performing. Sometimes I am lucky enough to go to see them in their studios and to take their portraits “in context”. You see so much more when you observe them practicing or performing close-up. In their …
Taking portraits in context brings a richness to the image, often because there is so much story to be told. Rather than a simple head and shoulders picture, you can see the life laid out as the details emerge. I was concentrating on this when taking pictures of two older pharmacists. One was in his …
I find the people look much more natural when deep in conversation rather than posing for the camera. The ebb and flow of human emotion, especially when free from the need to “look like something”, is endlessly fascinating. I positioned two Speedlights in opposite corners of the room, well above the conversation round the table. …
y portraits are “Street-style” where I wait for the action to come to me and click an opportunity, often with a story but not always.