Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Portrait Session 1

This is the start of a project for myself: to put together a portfolio of portraits.
My friend Zach kindly volunteered and these are the results.

In colour...
..and black and white.

After a few serious shots, I slapped a grid spot on the flash and did a few low-key portraits. Zach who is also a photographer gets the credit for the first two photos.

Serious
what if...
I said I was going to post these shots and this was his reaction:
Not really, his photography and travel blog can be found here and to the right on the side bar.
The low-key lighting was a lot of fun, and I will definitely be using it again, soon.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Noir at Midday Rail

At the rail yard near the docks I was trying to pick up some leads for the case.

Seemed to me that every other Dick and Jane was working the same case.
Hell, we all probably were.


Only one person didn't have a hat. I'd a feeling in my gut saying she had something to do with the case; and it had to be information, no one with jewels like that would be trying to scrape a few clams together by solving this rusted nut of an investigation.

Thought I'd try to be inconspicuous.

It was easy to spot the Jane who was working the case; she was as inconspicuous as I was, in exactly the way that people like us aren't.

That many people in hats, makes honest people spin stuff out of thin air just so you leave them alone. The dick in the vest even went so far as to take off his hat.

Looks like he knew the dame from somewhere that wasn't here and it seemed that she knew him from somewhere that wasn't here as well.

They both took off at a brisk walk.
Presumably to that somewhere that wasn't here.
I tailed them around a corner leading to an alley near the rails.
A sense of being near the end of the case building with each step.

I knew everything was going to end up in a dark place with lots of ducts, always does these days. At least the matter would be finished soon, there sure were a lot of ducts here...