Portraits: Steve
On the weekend I had rented a Canon 5D for test photography and video, my friend Steve asked me to take a headshot of him for a forthcoming conference he was attending.
Delighted to do so, we excused ourselves from a social meeting at the BFI bar to take these photos up in the Mezzanine Gallery.
I was unused to the size and controls of the D5, so I decided to eschew my usual manual use for automatic control of image making: this set me free from focus and exposure issues, and allowed me to concentrate on composition.
My main aim was to get both the focus on the eyes and the light in them to feature. While I love a shallow depth of field focus, with more control I would like to have featured more of Steve’s surroundings: the background here looks quite anonymous.
A few minutes later we were done.
Burning Details 
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