The many faces of Hartley…

I was sorting through a lot of old film based prints I made a few years back at TAFE and realised there were a few that I hadn’t scanned and put up on here.

The subject in the series of portraits shot on a red background is James Hartley, a friend who I met whilst studying photography.  Hartley is an amazing photographer and quite possibly one of the funniest people I have ever met. In this series of portraits, it was simlpy meant to be an exercise demonstrating the visual differences of various fill ratios (fill flash in a 2 flash portrait). However, Hartley decided to pose it up for me and took something mundane and boring and created an interesting sequence of portraits.

I cannot take the creative genius credit for the wooden doll shot. I found the image on the net and as part of a class exercise, reproduced the same still life image (composition and lighting). I have long lost the original to compare it to, but it turned out pretty well I think.