Bill is a Scot who has lived in France for most of the past half century. He is a linguist, boat technician par excellence and author whose life should be the subject of a book. He is presently working on just that, and I shall try to persuade him to use this photograph on the dust jacket!
His first novel (self-published without external editing) is, he says, not very good but it's a start and he's online. Now he's hoping to get a bit serious with the next one.
Bill joins a long list of people who in our travels do not remain strangers for long!
Note: ISO 250 (the old camera gets a bit noisy at faster speeds), f4, 1.0 second exposure, hand held and braced on the table - lighting by a single 8w cabin light. Given Bill and I both shake a bit, the almost sharpness here is a small miracle!
Sunday, September 9, 2012
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4 comments:
The light, the pose, the angle, the expression on his face all blend beautifully to give the scene an air of mystery... like he's about to tell us a very spooky story. Well done on the non shakiness, also.
Agree with Cara. Looks like its a ghost story. The lighting is excellent adn well done on hand holding for that long.
You certainly made the most of the reflected light off that open white page, Pierre. A second is an amazinly long time ... when one is waiting ...
What a great portrait!
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