I took photographs of Jude while we were together at Ikey’s, a café we frequently visit in town on Bath Street. I did this to test out different ways of taking portrait images, and the way light works with various facial expressions and poses. It was only a 5 minute shoot that wasn’t supposed to amount to much, but I liked the way of few of these images turned out and wanted to edit them.

In the last 4 photos, I took of a man who noticed us messing around with my camera and questioned us about photography and why we’re doing it. He asked us to take some photographs of him and send them to him later on his email, also asking me to take photos for an event which I wasn’t able to go to due to illness.

These photos of Jude could just be considered regular headshots, as the background has little to no focus throughout each of these images, but I really like the way the colours work in the images to create warmth. I also gained experience with using the flash button, as I’ve always been a bit hesitant to use it because of issues like red eyes and overexposures.

My editing with these images also improved, as I experimented with masking layers to blur out the backgrounds and make the subjects more prominent without making it too obvious in the final image.

This photo is the closest thing I got to actual environmental portraiture in this shoot, as I’m planning to take more images of people around the island. I still think the final result turned out really well, and I like the way the colours in the image compliment each other.