ANNETTE COLLINS
My hoodlum
EDITOR’S COMMENTS
Annette Collins says she captured this image on a
beach. “I noticed the light reflecting onto my son’s
face nice and evenly so I snapped this photo, hood
and all. I converted it to black and white to simplify
it and remove the warm colour casts the sand was
throwing onto his face. I used Topaz to emphasisehis freckles and do the Black and white conversion,”
she says. As well as the freckles, you’ve also caught
interesting light in your sons’s eyes, which adds up
to an evocative portrait. Well done.TECHNICAL DETAILS
Nikon D750, 50mm lens, 1/320s @ f2.8, ISO- Lightroom used for sharpening, shadows,
highlights, burning, dodging.Topaz used for black
and white conversion.
JILL VELINOS
Poppy
EDITOR’S COMMENTS
Jill Velinos says she has spent time working on environmental portraiture over the last few months,
with this image of her daughter Poppy in her father’s bedroom, as it was when he was a teenager,
one of her efforts. “I’m in love with this image because my husband’s bedroom is like a time
capsule detailing his past and here sits our daughter who represents his future,” she says. The best
environmental portraits either tell us something about our subject or leave us with questions, and
this subtly lit image does both things very well. I really enjoy your framing, and those beautiful retro
throwbacks you’ve included in the frame: the posters, the shag pile rug, the lamp. As a viewer, it
makes us want to know more about the subject - which is always the mark of an interesting image.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Canon EOS 7D Mark II, 18mm lens. 1/250s @ f6.3, ISO 2000.
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