The image titled 'An artist and his self portrait' was taken a while ago and features my friend Vincent. Vincent paints in oils and behind him you can see his self portrait. The whole idea was to create a photograph in a similar style to the old masters. Vincent's studio has a North facing sky light and he was positioned in the light falling from this much in the same way he would position a subject for painting. I did experiment with the portrait on the right but both artist and his facsimile looking out of the frame formed a much stronger image.
The camera was mounted on a tripod and natural light was used. This resulted in having to use a relatively slow shutter speed - I used a small aperture to capture the self portrait in relative sharpness. When I look at the settings now I see the ISO was160 with F13 at 1/2 second with a 27mm focal length.
Here is the picture...
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| An artist and his self portrait. |
