Camera Club Portraits

George our President

Caroline

Chris

These were random shots taken on our portrait studio night at the camera club last week.

Chloe

Another shot from last nights poto shoot at the camera club.

Blyth

The small dot near the top of the sky is the moon which we could see all day. Another hand held image but I dont think it's turned out too bad.

Blyth is situated on the north east coast of England within the county of Northumberland. It lies approximately 20 kilometres [13 miles] north east of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The history of the port and town of Blyth dates from the year 1723. Newsham (pronounced 'news ham') and Cowpen (pronounced 'coopen') being the oldest parts of Blyth. The history of the port dates from the 12th century until 1854 when the Blyth Harbour & Docks Board was formed, and 1882 when the Blyth Harbour Commission was formed. Blyth ship building yard was the largest on the north east coast until it closed in 1967. The port reached it peak as a coal shipping port by the early 1960's.
The Blyth area has always been dominated by heavy industries such as foundry work, ship building and mining.But with the closure of the rail link, the shipyard, the pits, by the mid 80's Blyth had to diverse and change to light industries, such as clothing, electrical and small manufacturing businesses.
Blyth has two weekly markets on Tuesday and Saturday as well as indoor shopping in the Keelrow shopping centre. A feature of the keyside at Blyth being the row of nine windmills on the pier to generate green electricity,people come from afar to view and photograph them.
The 'Blyth Spartans' amatuer football team is known far and wide for their great cup exploits,plus we have a very popular Rugby,Tennis and Cricket club.Blyth also has a very long stretch of sandy beach and good fishing on or offshore.

Settings

• Camera Olymus E500


• Aperture - f/6.3


• Shutter speed - 1/80sec


• ISO-100


• Focal Length - 11mm


• Exposure compensation 0 step
  

Portraits

Portrait photography has been around since the invention and popularization of the camera, and is a cheaper and often more accessible method than portrait painting, which had been used by distinguished figures before the use of the camera.

The goal of portrait photography is to capture the likeness of a person or a small group of people, typically in a flattering manner. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of photograph is the person's face, although the entire body and the background may be included.

Thanks to Helen Cook & Wayne Yeaman whom I work with for letting me take their photos.

These were taken today at work. I thought i'd try taking a few photos of people this time. I'm not used to portraiture so this is all a learning curve for me. Wayne was at the time on the telephone taking a call from a client. It's a shame his eyes were looking down. Helen however sat and did a pose for me. So I have one natural and one posed photo in different colour format (mono with a little film grain added & colour with no grain). Any advice is gratefully received.

Settings

• Camera Olympus E500
• Lens Zuiko Digital 50mm macro
• Portrait Mode
• ISO-200
• Focal Length - 50mm

Oh and before i forget i've managed to get back on to Flickr so if you want to see more of my work then follow the link at the side.