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Paintbrushes

Brushes
Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/250, ISO 200

I had a photography session in a school in Dublin yesterday where my assignment was to capture and document the work of a group called Creativity In The Classroom. They go into schools and give the pupils the opportunity to work with actual artists. The atmosphere was wonderful, the school was an old Catholic school with all the old features so I was in photo heaven. There is a rule now in a lot of schools that photographs cannot be taken where the children are recognisable so this gave me a bit of a challenge when trying to capture their work (portraits without faces!). Still there were plenty of colourful images everywhere I looked. I haven’t processed them yet, except this one which I spotted while downloading the files.

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Photography Portrait A Day

#18: Carlene

Carlene
Canon 10D 85mm, f2.8, 1/350, ISO 200

This is the very beautiful Carlene, she and I are members of the same church so I took this portrait this afternoon after the service while everyone else was having tea.

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Photography Portrait A Day

#17: John

John
Canon 10D 85mm, f3.5, 1/60, ISO 200

Back to approaching strangers I met John walking through Greystones and he was so nice. I’m constantly surprised (in a good way) at just how friendly people are. I’m not completely happy with this one…the light was fading and one thing about this project is you have to take what conditions you get so there’s no moving people or positioning them so the light is better. Hence this one is a little blurry and the reflections in the glasses hide his eyes. Still, this project isn’t all about being technically perfect (thankfully!) so there’s no hiding the blurry ones 😀

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Animation Photography Portrait A Day

#16: Bryan

Brian
Canon 10D 28mm, f3.5, 1/45, ISO 400

This is Bryan, one of my animation students and the creator of the excellent film I’m linking to below. He animated this on paper, scanned it into the computer and animated it using Flash. Funny stuff:

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Photography Portrait A Day

#15 Eve (again)

Rawr!
Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/180, ISO 200

And I was doing so well with getting a portrait a day. Hmph! Really rubbish weekend…just one of those weekends where everything I set out to do didn’t work out. Ho hum. One word we always get Eve to say when things have gone a bit wrong and she’s getting all frustrated or upset with herself is “Nevermind.” So that’s what I’m telling myself now and getting back on track. Speaking of Eve, this portrait was taken at a fancy dress party but Eve wears this dress all the time. We have to hide it so we can wash it from time to time.