Portraiture Photography | Andrew James Murrock feat Allisha Sloan

Months ago, before I moved away to Bangor, I had been asking Andrew to be a model for me as I was lacking in male models and thought it would be a laugh. The thing is, we were never free at the same time and then I moved away. And I had forgotten about it.

Then out of the blue a few days ago Andrew says that he’d be up for doing the photos and at first I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about and then it came back to me. Andrew also had the idea for some night shots and I really liked the idea as I had only performed a dedicated night time shot once before and felt that it would be get more experience.

So we met yesterday at around 8pm as the sun was due to set at 8:36pm. The only problem was location. I wanted somewhere that would be lit up at night and I did not want to repeat the shots I took last time around Greenhithe. So we decided to go to Rochester in Kent. I had the idea that the castle would be lit up at night.

We got to Rochester pretty early so we popped in to see a friend of ours Allisha who lives in the area. And we invited her along on the shoot. As it turns out the castle is locked of after a certain time and there was no way to get in that didn’t require serious climbing [believe me, I looked]. So we took the portraits in the area around the castle. I really like some of the shots that we achieved although I would like to re-visit the area and take some more.

Andrew had brought along a change of clothing with him for the shoot which also worked very well and also had a group of ladies watching him from a pub as he got changed which was quite funny. Ali ended up in some of the shots because she said “You know what would make these shots better a girl in there with him” to which I responded “Go on then”. And that’s why I have entitled this post ‘Portraiture Photography | Andrew James Murrock feat. Allisha Sloan ‘.

All the photographs were taken on a Canon EOS 50D using the Canon EF 28mm f1.8 lens. As the photographs were going to be handheld shots without flash, I chose the camera with its good low light capability and the lens with its fast aperture of f1.8. Allowing me to get the shots I needed and reducing the amount of blur that would have occurred had I used my Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 lens. Although I must admit some of the shots are still blurred, hence why I want to revisit the area again and re-do the shots.

All the photographs were taken using the light that was available. Except for the fourth photograph where Andrew and Ali are sitting on the bench. There was no available light so Andrew was nice enough to park his car on the curb and leave the headlights on for a few minutes. I have included nine photographs with this post. I have decided that portraitures are going to play a big part of this blog. So if you would like to have your portrait taken by myself, click on the ‘Contact Me’ section at the top of the page for ways to get in touch.