The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 has been won by David Chancellor, 49, for his portrait, Huntress with Buck, of 14 year old Josie Slaughter from Alabama on her first hunting trip to South Africa. He says: ‘Josie had hunted her buck earlier in the day and was returning to camp. As we arrived, [...]
I was recently asked to write a Guest Blog article by Haje over at Photocritic.org, so I thought it would be cool to expand on something I wrote about in my previous Lightroom retouching article – using the graduated filter tool to selectively darken an area of a portrait photo. People sometimes tend to think [...]
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 will showcase the work of some of the most talented emerging young photographers, alongside that of established professionals, photography students and gifted amateurs. Selected anonymously from an open competition, the diversity of styles reflects the international mix of entrants as well as the range of approaches to the [...]
This summer, photographer Matt Humphrey has embarked on an ambitious innovative photographic project to take 31 portraits in 31 days. The shoots took place over the month of August around the capital at various locations. These images will be released online gradually during October, culminating in an exhibition & silent auction of bespoke signed and [...]
Here’s a shot from a Lucha Libre! shoot I did with make-up artist Nohelia Reyes and model Deirdre. If you mouse over the image, you’ll see the untouched, straight out of the camera, before image. No enhancements, no smoothing, nothing. Read on below the image… I see a lot of ads in fashion magazines that [...]
