Project 52 ... 28

This is Art Droid Ross...

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D200, Tamron 17 - 50, f2.8, SB 800

I have known Ross for quite a while now. he is a local Artist, I should say a very gifted local artist. He can turn his hand to so many things from sculpture, drawings, restoration and I am sure many many more. I was delighted when he agreed to sit for a portrait. Naturally, it had to be in his studio. And what a studio! Surrounded by banks of wide screen monitors, electronic writing tablets, books (and a drawing board) it was an experience! I was overwhelmed. His artwork has graced the pages of magazines, comics and the film industry, and I like his way out futuristic style, he was also an Art Droid on 2000AD, a comic I was hooked on as a kid. You can see more of his work here.

There was a lot of mixed lighting in the studio - small low voltage lights in the ceiling, the monitor lights and daylight coming in through the door. I set the SB 800 with diffusion dome to camera left and set the camera's white balance for tungsten. I tweaked the final image white balance a bit.

What struck me as a huge coincidence is the disparity between this shot and the last of Roger, here, Ross uses a tablet to draw on the screen, Roger uses a drawing board.

Thanks Ross for giving me a glimpse into the life and studio of an amazing artist!

Project 52 ... 27

This is Roger.
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D200, Tamron 17 - 50 f2.8, natural light

Roger is an Architect and has been practising for a number of years with great success. He has won many awards over the years. But what he is known for outside of work is climbing. he has climbed more mountains than most people on the planet! His last trip was to a peak in the Everest range a mere 200m lower than the main peak itself! Frost bite and the cold mean nothing to him! (I wasn't going to climb a mountain for this shot, the stairs were high enough!)

This picture is taken in his studio, in the gods, in the natural light streaming in from a rooflight to camera left. He climbs up here everyday, right. This photograph is an interesting contrast with the next one of Ross. Most architects use computers in their work and in Roger's office this is no exception, but he still uses a drawing board. I should at this point add that he is an advanced Autocad user, with a certificate to prove it...

Thanks for letting me take this shot Roger.