I was asked by a friend about a week ago if I would be interested in doing a portrait shoot for him. Over the last year he’s had a full back tattoo in progress and it has now been completed and fully healed.
The request made me chuckle a little seeing as I’d just finished the Calendar shoot for the Glasgow Mens Handball Team in October (calendars are now available by the way, just click here). Seems I’m getting a bit of a reputation for photographing partially clad men.
As before, its difficult to do indoor shoots in Scotland during the winter as the lighting will always be an issue. I’m not to the level of professionalism at the moment as to have a full lighting kit at the ready. Heck I don’t even have an off camera flash, but it’s on the list of things to get (as well as a wide angle lens, a fish eye, a TLR camera,a remote etc etc etc).
However, lighting challenges and all I think it went ok. My friend was very pleased with the results and he’ll be giving copies of the shots to his Tattoo Artist (Kris at Tiki Monkey Tattos in Edinburgh) for his portfolio. He tells me he thinks there could be a large market for this kind of portraiture.
Could be interesting subject matter for a future exhibition? Hmmm…
