Magazine Portrait photography at Princes in Liverpool
This photographic portrait of Tim Jolly the then marketing chief executive of Princes (not sure if he still is or not) was to accompany an article in Food Manufacture magazine.
I was asked to get the usual corporate head and shoulders photographs, photographs of him in front of the Liver Building (as this is where Princes offices are), Liverpool and anything else I felt was appropriate and you guessed it I had 10 minutes.
I ditched the idea of doing the shots outside as it was raining and we really did not have the time. What could I do.
I first of all got the standard head and shoulders photographs in the bag.
Then I decided to use my brand new 2 day old Nikon 35mm F2 Lens. So I got in close, shallow depth of field and used available window light. I had at the time been going through a phase of off camera flash, so it was quite a departure.
A little bit of post production (just the monochrome and the vignette) and there you have it. All in about 10 minutes.
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