Portraiture Photography | Faye Oakwell

Regular readers of this blog will know of a new thing that I am trying out. This new thing is basically making a blog post for work that is a little older but I am still happy with to this day. I did it once with photographs of my friend Ashley James [link below]

Portraiture Photography | Ashley Martin James
Date Posted: Tuesday, 21^st September 2010

And so this time I thought I would use a set of photographs that I took of my friend Faye Oakwell in London. Faye is also a photographer so at the bottom of this post I have placed a link to her photographic work and I suggest having a look. The links consist of her photographic website and link to her Flickr account.

The photographs in this post, as mentioned beforehand were taken in London. More specifically the photographs were taken on the South Bank in London near the book market and graffiti wasll which features in the background of one of the shots I believe. They were taken using my Canon EOS 350D with Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens. One of the photographs were taken using flash, one of which I borrowed from my friend James Brooks who was also up in London taking photos with us, and so I cannot remember the model name or number of the flash.

As a side note James Brooks is the person to the right in the first image that I included in this blog.

Before I went ahead to write and post this blog I made sure to ask Faye whether it would be ok to use the old images. The reason for this was because they were taken before I made my standard Model Release Form therefore I felt that I had to ask first [as well as it being polite]. She said it was fine, hence why this blog post is going up. But I also asked if it was at all possible to have a shoot in the near future and she was also fine with that. Which is good for me for two reasons, firstly I have more content for the blog and it keeps it going and secondly it will give me an opportunity to see how my photographing skill has progress since I last took her portrait in May of 2007.

in this post I have included six photographs and I feel that the photographs that I have chosen are by far the best photos of the bunch. This is a short blog that I will set to upload on Tuesday whilst I am away. I have pre-prepared this blog post to keep the blog constant whilst I am unable to create new posts. Like I said before, be sure to visit her site.

Faye Oakwell’s Photography;
http://fayeoakwell.com/
flickr.com/faiifaii

And as I always say, feel free to contact me with the details provided on the contact page and also feel free to comment the blog posts with your thoughts on the content.