I know you have landscape photographers and travel photographers but I guess a lot of professional photographers are told
what the person paying wants from the image, so although you
have some artistic licence I would say the client has the last say.
Whereas a hobby photographer does what pleases them.
Do you have a favourite photographer past or
present?
At the moment I am watching all of Peter Coulsons videos, a
portrait photographer. I love Serge Ramelli’s tutorials, amazing
to see the before and after Photoshop/Lightroom, his results are
just WOW.
I love Lyndsey Adler’s work, stunning colours and the finish to
her portraits is what I am striving for. The same with Jake Hicks, I
love their use of gels.
What, in your opinion, is most important to consider
while shooting portrait pictures?
For me its having fun, I love to get the girls relaxed and laughing,
enjoying the shoot and going from there. I rarely have an end
image in mind, I may have an outfit I take along with me and a
few pictures that other photographers have taken that caught
my eye, but the shoot is usually very fluid. I will show the model
a picture and we make that a starting point, I don’t like to make
the picture exactly the same, start with an idea and see where it
goes. I always like to include the model looking straight on at the
camera with their head tilted slightly down.
Do you have a special editing software you usually
use for post-production?
Photoshop, for some reason I never got on with Lightroom, I
can use it but went back to Bridge. I could do with learning more
about Lightroom I guess but just didn’t gel with it.
When you go on one of your travels, what all you
take with you?
The boot of my car has everything in it, when I have to carry
it that’s a different matter, as little as possible and usually just
my camera even the tripod usually gets left behind, which is
a shame, especially if there is water around. It is lovely to get
those longer exposures but im just too lazy to be bothered with
extra stuff to carry. Maybe I should bet an electric golf bag.
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