Photography by Patrick

Photographers at Orlando Photography Workshop

The next several blogs that I will be posting will feature the photographers that attended the 2 day Orlando workshop and their photos. This blog hi-lights some of the photography of Patrick.

Patrick took this photo at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. We had an overcast day which is perfect for portraiture. This was taken with a Sony camera on a tripod. No flash or reflectors were used. Shot in the horizontal format he used informal composition to place his subject and later vignetted the edges to bring all the attention to the model. Then established rapport and got a great expression. The next photo he used a vertical format, came up close, and tilted the camera for a Diagonal composition. The diagonal makes it more dynamic. When you are in a place like Rollins College it is easy to overpower your subject with the beautiful backdrops. By concentrating on the subject and not making the background the centerpiece of the photo attention is kept on the model. Placing the eyes on the top third for maximum visual effect, the attention goes directly to the expression. Afterwards he made it into a Sepia tone image probably using Photoshop. What is nice about black and white or sepia is there are no colors to distract you from appreciating the subject.

These are just some of the great photos he took. Although the day was overcast which helped with the lighting it was freezing. Any photographer can come up with good images when circunstances are perfect. The learned photographer achieves consistantly good results no matter what happens. This is the case here. Looking at the model she looks perfectly comfortable. If I were her parents would I purchase these photos? In a heartbeat!