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Relaxing in the sun

Posted in Adobe, Lightroom, model, Ngoni Namate, Photoshop, processing, snow, tagged , , , , , , on 02/01/2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not going to create a new blog entry for every image of Ngoni that I process, but this is one of my favourites! There is something rather mad about being out in the snow in a bikini, but she continually assured me she wasn’t too cold (I was in my thermals, standing in the [...]

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Photographing Ngoni Namate (in the snow…)

Posted in model, Ngoni Namate, portrait, snow, winter, tagged , , , , on 24/12/2010 | Leave a Comment »

I had the great pleasure of photographing a new (to me) model yesterday: the fabulous Ngoni Namate. When we first met a few weeks ago to talk about possible shoots sometime during the next few months, she mentioned that she would really like some photographs in the snow, were it to snow at some point [...]

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Location location location

Posted in fashion, hill, landscape, model, Pentland Hills, planning, portrait, tagged , , , , , , on 28/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »

The title of this post is taken from a really terrible - on all sorts of levels! - TV programme in the UK that I have watched bits of once or twice… This last week I met two potential models, with whom I plan to do some interesting and in part slightly crazy photoshoots in [...]

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Fashion show photography

Posted in composition, event photography, fashion, model, portrait, tagged , , , , on 10/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last week I had great fun photographing the Africa-in-Motion closing party and fashion shows, along with my friend Mabel Forsyth. Mabel kindly sent me one of her photographs, capturing a beautiful model in an amazing turquoise dress, with a little purple-shirted gnome in the background… honestly, does that purple really go with that turquoise?! Photographing [...]

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Models wanted!

Posted in experience, model, portrait, tagged , , on 10/10/2010 | 1 Comment »

I’ve just added a new page to this site asking for people interested in modelling for me to get in touch - no previous experience required, and all kinds of ‘looks’ and ages welcome! I’m keen to build up experience in this area, and would be very grateful for any contacts. So please help me [...]

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Stephanie in the sea

Posted in Gullane, model, portrait, Stephanie Tait, sunrise, tagged , , , , on 22/08/2010 | 3 Comments »

At 5:30 this morning, I collected Stephanie and we went to Gullane Bents, a lovely unspoilt beach east of Edinburgh, in order to take portraits in the soft light that comes at sunrise. When I first discussed this with her she almost immediately said ‘yes’, despite my warning of the cold temperatures. She now lives [...]

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An invitation and a warning

Posted in model, planning, weather, tagged , , on 21/08/2010 | Leave a Comment »

I have been tidying up photographs on my computer, clearing out some that I’m not going to use, and finding others that I’ll still want to work on. I liked this one, from Airthrey Loch early one morning in July: the path seems to be an invitation to get into the water… with the life [...]

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Saying goodbye, hello, and goodbye again

Posted in camera equipment, digital, Dorothea Lange, film, landscape, model, Nikon, portrait, Stephanie Tait, tagged , , , , , , , , on 10/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes I’m amazed at how attached I become to cameras. I’ve written about my lovely Nikon FM2, and also a little about my new D90. But I haven’t written about my most faithful workhorse, my Nikon D40, that I have been wanting (rather half-heartedly, if truth be told) to sell. The reason for selling is [...]

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Reflecting on my images

Posted in art, Jane Delafons, landscape, model, portrait, RedBubble, tagged , , , , , on 30/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The main resource for viewing my images is presently my own website, but over recent weeks I have been adding more and more images to my RedBubble page (incidentally, this is also one of the reasons why I have not been writing here, though there are things to write about). RedBubble is used for exhibiting [...]

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Bruce Percy on portraits

Posted in Bruce Percy, model, portrait, tagged , , on 14/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »

A photographer I admire tremendously, Bruce Percy, has just written about portraits, and his post raises similar issues to my reflections on directing portraits. I’m not suggesting that my efforts compare with Bruce’s magnificent work, of course…! Share this:

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Ownership and responsibility

Posted in consumer, experience, Marilyn Monroe, model, naked, Nastassia Kinski, ownership, portrait, responsibility, Richard Avedon, Stephanie Tait, Susan Sontag, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 09/09/2009 | 1 Comment »

Susan Sontag, in her famous book ‘On Photography’, describes three forms of acquisition of a photograph, of which I want to discuss two here (the third perhaps another time): …a photograph is not only like its subject, a homage to the subject. It is a part of, an extension of that subject; and a potent [...]

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Directing portraits

Posted in Jane Delafons, model, portrait, Stephanie Tait, tagged , , , on 30/08/2009 | 3 Comments »

For years, I’ve been taking photographs of landscapes, some more, some less good. But portraits are a relatively new thing for me. By portraits, I don’t mean family snapshots and the like, but deliberate posing, lighting and framing of an individual in order to communicate something. My family mostly don’t want to be photographed (my [...]

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