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Hold em Shoot

I recently had the opportunity to take some portraits at a friends filming shoot, for 10 minutes I happen to really like the results and plan to get some better ones at an actual planned shoot with Schanelle very soon.

Vangie

Had a very fun day of photographing Vangie, some of my favourites are below.

Ilona

Here are some of my favourites from Ilona's shoot. There were really so many great ones to choose from, but No. 5 & 1 are definitely my top 2.

Black & White vs. Colour

Anyone who knows me and my style of photography will know that I absolutely adore black & white photos. Whenever I get involved in a discussion on which is better, I always side with black & white: until yesterday. Yesterday I did a shoot with Ilona. When I loaded the pictures onto my computer, I was shocked that I preferred the color as opposed to the desaturated image. Here's a sample below. I think the colour is magical.

More from the shoot to come soon!

Daniel

Starting to build up a portfolio for my soon-to-be website, Daniel was my second victim. He always rocks photo's! Here are some of the best shots

With a splash!

This is my favourite subject to shoot because she's always so willing to go with the flow, even when the flow involves jumping in the swimming pool on a less than warm day.

I recently did a shoot with her and below are my favourites.

Love how the red & blue make this one pop

Portography

I first discovered my love of taking portraits when I did a black and white photography course as an elective during my architecture studies. I enjoy taking photo's of people as opposed to objects/buildings because people are real and interactive. You start a shoot knowing the location and the wardrobe, but how the photo turns out is entirely unpredictable and up to the energy between the observer and the observed.

Below of some of those first portraits, taken in 2006. They are all taken with a Canon A1 on Kodak Tri-X film with an ASA of 400. I then developed the film in the darkroom at Wits University and did the prints on Kentmere VC Select photographic glossy paper. When it comes to the technical quality, I am certainly lacking, but for a first try I was happy with the results.