Photo 2 - Duncan Aged 21



With only lighting to the front of Duncan



With lighting behind and in front

Duncan's photograph was taken during a studio session at College on 13th January.  He arrived promptly at 6.30 pm on Wednesday 12th January.  I asked Duncan to bring a change of clothes with him.  The studio was set up with white backdrop and 4 studio lights.   The camera I used was a Canon EOS 5D with a lens 24-105mm and it was the first time I had used this model.  The camera was charged up and ready to use.  There was a remote flash unit on the camera which released the studio lights when I pressed the shutter release button.  For my selected photograph I had all four studio lights on which gave light directly onto the yellow board that Duncan was standing in front of and also the two lights focusing directly at Duncan.   Without the lighting on the board and using the same settings, the photograph came out a completely different colour (as shown above)

My final chosen photograph is shown below.   I particularly like this one even though Duncan's hair is not fully in the frame.  The position of him to the right of the frame I feel is effective as there that fabulous yellow colour to the left of him.  The blue of his t-shirt against the yellow I feel also works.  The colouring of this photograph is something that some of my researched photographers have (James Mollison, Steve McCurry).  The scar on his forehead is clearly visible and just adds a bit of character.  I have cropped this photograph as to the right of Duncan was where the yellow board ended and the white backdrop started so I have closely cropped this taking off his right shoulder.   The settings on this photograph are: ISO 100; shutter speed 1/60; f8.0 and focal length of 75mm.  

Age Group 11-21

Taking these photographs of Duncan is an experience I was not 100% comfortable with as the camera I was given to use was one I was not familar with and I was having a few weeks as previously described where I was unconfident.  However I was pleasantly surprised when I uploaded them to the computer as I had a few hundred photographs which weren't nearly as bad as I thought they would be.  Duncan was a very easy person to work with.  He did as asked and was very at ease and happy to try things.  

This photograph relates to my theme of age as Duncan falls into the 12-21 age bracket.