Candid Portraits in Mono
This week I have been able to capture some candid portraits at two events. The first was the John Muir Festival in Dunbar on Easter Monday and the second was the press conference for the FIA World Endurance Championship at Autoworld in Brussels.
I prefer to remove the colour from portraits like this to give them a reportage feel. I suppose this harks back to my days as a newspaper photographer when images like these had a harder, grittier edge in mono. Of course we used to shoot on film and then develop and print the images ourselves. For these shots I used Silver Efex Pro 2 software to create the look I wanted, which is much easier than it was in the darkroom.
The first four images were taken in Dunbar High Street on Monday during the John Muir Festival (see blog on this event HERE)
The second set of four images were taken during the FIA WEC press conference in Brussels on Wednesday (see blog this event HERE).
All the images were shot on a Fujifilm X-T1 or Fujifilm X-Pro1 and either a Fujinon 55-200 or Fujinon 35mm f1.4
I prefer to remove the colour from portraits like this to give them a reportage feel. I suppose this harks back to my days as a newspaper photographer when images like these had a harder, grittier edge in mono. Of course we used to shoot on film and then develop and print the images ourselves. For these shots I used Silver Efex Pro 2 software to create the look I wanted, which is much easier than it was in the darkroom.
The first four images were taken in Dunbar High Street on Monday during the John Muir Festival (see blog on this event HERE)
The second set of four images were taken during the FIA WEC press conference in Brussels on Wednesday (see blog this event HERE).
All the images were shot on a Fujifilm X-T1 or Fujifilm X-Pro1 and either a Fujinon 55-200 or Fujinon 35mm f1.4
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