Week 13

My final project is coming along very well at the moment and I am still learning a lot of aspects of photography, I am currently observing with my lens the destination on the train route between Maidstone and Coventry as this gives me the chance to explore placesI have never been. This week I have been to Milton Keynes, while in this place I set myself a challenge to get a portrait of a person I do not know. As a result of this I made this image of John a local at Milton Keynes who was out fishing. I aim to do this on a regular basis now in order to set me up for the future when I may be asked to meet a person at a certain location. When approaching the subject I just started by talking to him about what he was doing and if he had caught any fish, we then got talking about photography as luckily for me he has been known to take a photograph in his time. When I felt I had become compfortable with him and him compfortable with me I asked if I could make a portrait of him which he had no problem with. This has increased my confidence and is something I will defiantly be doing again as the more used I get to photographing strangers it will become easier and easier and by the time I get to my first portrait commision I feel I will be able to do this with great confidence for myself and the subject to be compfortable.

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