100 Strangers : Round 2 : No. 151 : Lynne-Marie by phil_howcroft

100 Strangers : Round 2 : No. 151 : Lynne-Marie

Arnold (where I live) in Nottingham had it's annual Christmas market this weekend,.

The main shopping street was lined with market stalls, food stalls and a couple of fairground rides.

I thought the occasion might be a good opportunity to photograph some strangers. I went down in the morning before it got too busy.

My wife spotted Lynne-Marie and said she knew she would be up for a stranger pic, I thought her glasses and dark hair would make a striking portrait,

So I went over to Lynne-Marie and introduced myself and explained the concept of the 100 strangers project..

Lynne-Marie agreed straight away to be photographed. All the stalls on the market were individual little marquee style tents which were all a little dark inside. I therefore asked Lynne-Marie to move just outside the tent to get some nice light and catchlights.

Lynne-Marie sells handcrafted bespoke jewellery , specialising in sterling silver and jem jewellery. She only started doing markets about seven weeks ago. I asked her how business was and she said she'd had a good day yesterday (Friday) when the market opened.

I showed Lynne-Marie the images on the back of the camera and she thought they looked good. We exchanged business cards , shook hands and I told Lynne-Marie to email me if she wanted copies of the images.

I decided to convert the image to monochrome as there wasn't that much colour in the image. Lynne-Marie was wearing a white jumper and the tent canvas was grey. There's a bit of a marquee bar just over Lynne-Marie's head. I tried to clone it out , but when I clone things out I tend to see the cloning and hesitate to do it .

To find out more about the 100 Strangers project and see pictures taken by other photographers, look at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

https://www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/

My own strangers can be seen here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_howcroft/albums/72157657822400168
Definitely works in monochrome. I like her straight forward, direct gaze.
November 25th, 2018  
Another lovely portrait Phil:)
November 25th, 2018  
So you have an assistant to point out for you your next target, too. Lucky because my wife never does that, haha. I like this in mono and I think it was a good choice. The lady has given you a lovely smile and you captured her features really well.
November 25th, 2018  
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