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LEICA Q2 MONO

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Aperture f/4 ISO 1600 Shutter 1/125 Focal Length 28/1

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Apr, 2023

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Spring 23 Award

Absolute Masterpiece

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Outstanding Creativity

Superb Composition

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Many thanks to @jonasweiss, @Fame_Bright_Photography, @1000WordsPhoto and @James-Evans for all the peer awards 🙏😊💫

A massive thank you to VIEWBUG for the Spring 23 award ✨📷🙏😁

Many thanks to @catherineannesamillano for your Absolute Masterpiece peer award, I am very grateful ✨😊🤍

Thank you 🙏 @rueysung for your Absolute Masterpiece peer award 👍😊 much appreciated

Thanks to @Matessa for your Outstanding Creativity peer award 👍✨😊🙏

Thank you to @danasmary for your Superb Composition award! Much appreciated 🙏👍😊

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Behind The Lens

Location

This is an ex colleague of mine who kindly agreed to me taking some photos of him. It was my first portrait session - usually focus my energy on street photography. The photo was taken in his lounge and you may notice the brick fireplace in the background

Time

The photograph was taken at around midday one day last autumn

Lighting

One of the reasons for using his lounge as the location was the natural lighting - it seemed to perfectly fall on his complexion

Equipment

I used my Leica Q2 Monochrom (with its fixed 28mm f1.7 Summilux lens), handheld.

Inspiration

I really like interesting faces that can tell a story. Garry, however, is a very creative man and he is always using his hands to create sculptures, models, toys for his grandson, etc. so I (and he for that matter) wanted to show his hands in the photos I captured

Editing

I used Adobe Lightroom to adjust the levels and to darken the background slightly to amplify the details on his face and hand

In my camera bag

I sometimes use my iPhone 11 Pro if I see something in colour that catches my eye, otherwise it’s just my Q2 Monochrom

Feedback

It helps to build up a rapport with the model, I think you then begin to see a truthful character of the model shine through

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