Portrait Of My Friend

2022_CLondon52w21: Portrait of a Friend

From the C.London website: "Let’s do portraits! Find a willing model (yes, your dog will do just fine) and work to capture their personality in the image. Pay attention to lighting, posing, and environment, and try and showcase them in a way that is natural for them." 

 My wife and I met he and his wife in 1975 and we only lived in the same city for 4 weeks before we moved.  Yet for 47 years, we've been close friends.  Last week, they joined us for a week in Cancun.   Still hangin' out after all these years...

"Contemplation"

Apple iPhone 12 Pro @ f2  1/3400  6mm (61mm equiv)  ISO 25

 

"Les"

Apple iPhone 12 Pro @ f2  1/120  6mm (52mm equiv)  ISO 40

All Photographed 5/20/22

Repetition

CLondon52w21: Pattern

From the C.London website: "Again, based on the trick I often share with my students struggling with composition.  When looking at a scene, if you’re unsure of how to compose for that image, unfocus your eyes - instead of seeing a yard with a fence, notice the patterns of the scene.  That isn’t a hedge, it’s a repeating pattern of small circles. That isn’t a fence, but repeating lines.

For this week, try this technique out, and find some pattern in a scene.  Then compose the image to highlight that pattern."

As noted in a couple of previous posts, I intended to use my walk around downtown Chicago to make photos for some of the upcoming weekly challenges.  This week is the last of those challenges.

There were a lot of opportunities to show patterns on buildings, however this hip shot became my selection because I almost always prefer people to add interest and the building patterns were a nice backdrop.  Straightened and processed in LR.

Sony A7C @ f2.8 1/1500 35mm ISO 100

Samyang AF 35mm F1.8

Photographed 5/13/21