Kat - Graphic
And so too, seeing as we've a little more Missy, we ought to have some more of Kat. Never a bad thing! As I mentioned before, Kat is fairly confident in front of the camera, and in some senses that allowed us to try stuff a little less orthodox. The weather conspired against us heavily on the day of shooting so we got only part of what we wanted done, but amongst those was this. (The talk of further shoots is already on...)
One thing that has struck me recently about some of the very best portrait photographers, particularly those with a fashion slant to their work, is that very often the traditional rules of portrait photography get played very fast and loose with. Rules of thirds often go out of the window, the idea that you can't crop someone's feet off or their head in half vanish, and the fact you must maintain eye contact dismissed. For me these styles and images intrigue me, as frankly, sometimes taking a portrait that abides by the rules is just plain easy, boring and predictable. What I think makes successfully producing work like this difficult is that you strip away the normal tools for the job and have to rely on a different and ill matched toolkit. Often these images become works of a graphic nature, as though if you blurred your eyesight slightly and just saw the fuzzy outline, you'd be looking at a graphically interesting arrangement of shape and colour. It's like designing a layout instead of taking a photograph. And when you flick your eyesight back into focus you're playing with two hands, an image, and a graphical vision. I can't claim to be even vaguely good at this stuff, just that I'm gonna dabble with trying. So here, is something a bit different, shot at my dining room table, aiming for some shape and tension...
The beautiful bit, well, that's all Kat really isn't it?
Kat - Graphic
And so too, seeing as we've a little more Missy, we ought to have some more of Kat. Never a bad thing! As I mentioned before, Kat is fairly confident in front of the camera, and in some senses that allowed us to try stuff a little less orthodox. The weather conspired against us heavily on the day of shooting so we got only part of what we wanted done, but amongst those was this. (The talk of further shoots is already on...)
One thing that has struck me recently about some of the very best portrait photographers, particularly those with a fashion slant to their work, is that very often the traditional rules of portrait photography get played very fast and loose with. Rules of thirds often go out of the window, the idea that you can't crop someone's feet off or their head in half vanish, and the fact you must maintain eye contact dismissed. For me these styles and images intrigue me, as frankly, sometimes taking a portrait that abides by the rules is just plain easy, boring and predictable. What I think makes successfully producing work like this difficult is that you strip away the normal tools for the job and have to rely on a different and ill matched toolkit. Often these images become works of a graphic nature, as though if you blurred your eyesight slightly and just saw the fuzzy outline, you'd be looking at a graphically interesting arrangement of shape and colour. It's like designing a layout instead of taking a photograph. And when you flick your eyesight back into focus you're playing with two hands, an image, and a graphical vision. I can't claim to be even vaguely good at this stuff, just that I'm gonna dabble with trying. So here, is something a bit different, shot at my dining room table, aiming for some shape and tension...
The beautiful bit, well, that's all Kat really isn't it?