Freya 24/100

While family commitments meant I couldn't make the meet up in London yesterday, I had an hour free so decided to have a walk around Andover instead.

 

I walked into town and was impressed to see it fairly well packed with a bustling market, I don't really venture in on Saturdays and during the week its a bit of a ghost town.

 

My first approach was a refusal, but undeterred I decided to wait at the entrance of a shopping centre with a fairly heavy footfall.

 

I only really caught a side on glimpse of Freya as she walked past me but with her hair and nose piercing I knew she'd make a great subject.

 

I approached and made my introductions, Freya was with her father and was happy to have her photo taken.

 

We stepped into the adjacent alley, which I had decided to use a long time ago when the opportunity arose, and feel it may be a little busy now, but its crossed off the list.

 

Freya, who shares her first name with my daughter, was fantastic infront of the camera and so relaxed. She had popped into town with her father and I had intercepted them at the start of their day. We all chatted for a while, Freya is 19 and works for a local company with a love of all things equestrian.

 

I shot off a few images with my canon fd 50mm, then introduced a silver reflector and switched to the Petzal 85mm Art lens.

 

In post I went through my usual edits but the end result didn't wow me like the image that flashed up in the viewfinder of the a7 after making the exposure did. I went back to the raw file and all I had to do was slightly sharpen the eyes, no further retouching has been done.

 

Thanks Freya for being part of the project it was great to meet you and your Dad, get in touch if you would like high res copies. I may upload the canon 50mm shot later as a comparison for lens buffs like myself :-)

 

This picture is #24 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

 

 

 

Done