When I started my series my first few images were members of Arnold and District Camera Club. Now the nights are lighter, I can grab a few shots of members to push me towards the final run in
Keith has been a member of the club for a while, He specialise in doing now and then images of Nottingham and surrounding districts. What I mean by that is he finds an old archive picture of Nottingham and then photos the same scene today. He knows all about flash settings and gave us all an impromptu lesson in 'flash photography' a couple of years back.
Always willing to share his knowledge of photography with his fellow club members
Edited in Rawtherapee with a film filter of a Polaroid 672. I tried to control the highlights in Keith's hair and the top of his head.
I don't know the image should be more contrasty as it has a greys scale feel rather than lots of black tones. Having said that I did do a deep contrast version and I felt it was a bit too false and came out more of a caricature rather than portrait.
I think your portraits are excellent Phil and I love reading about the characters too. I love this one because of his smile and the way he's not looking at the camera. The detail is brilliant.
@busylady thanks judith for those kind words, the 50mm lens is a great lens (ideal for portraits and less than £100), I shoot most of my portraits on my old DSLR the 450D
Looks great to me. Another wonderful portrait. His face conveys warmth and contentedness. Keith sounds like the sort of chap we all would like to know.
A lovely portrait and even before I read your comment about processing, I was thinking you'd done really well not to have shine on the top of Keith's head.
The detail in this is amazing! What an interesting face....so much character you have capture. Love this eyes off to the side and that smile! Awesome Phil!
@kerristephens cheers kerri
@bizziebeeme thank you lou :)
wonderful portrait
@ivan thanks for the fave iavan :)
@sailingmusic thanks very much myrna
@sangwann dione your words are far too kind L) thank you for your support and the fave
@quietpurplehaze thanks hazel , the shine was difficult especially as i was shooting on relatively high ISO
@nicknac thanks nick
@annied thanks very much annie
@timandelke thanks for your words of encouragement and support elke, much appreciated