Shooting Portraits for Noblesse Magazine June and July 2015

Shooting portraits is my new love.

After spending many years being a advertising retoucher and photographer for my early career I’ve been fortunate to work on many creative international ads for the world’s biggest brands and companies. But specialising in special effects and creative retouching meant I missed out on shooting people. 

After moving to Hong Kong, one of my main focuses became to shoot more people. After all, getting that spark of personality out of a person to make a special portrait is one of the challenging skills of photography. Secondly people are so interesting and dynamic. Unlike shooting a bottle, or fire or ice, there’s no set formula for working with the subject, all people are different and I learn something new each and every time.

So I proudly present two shots I had the pleasure and opportunity to photograph Christoph Schmidinger, the General Manager of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and Olivia Putman, french designer and daughter to Andrée Putman.

The images appear in the the June and July 2015 issues of Noblesse Magazine (China), and are shot on location in a bar in the Four Seasons and the other at an art gallery featuring Putman’s work. The location environment helps add a dimension and character to the portrait and I’m guessing the text that accompanies the images talks about them in some way. If only I could read Chinese.

When shooting for magazines, we always shot variations to the editor options. Sometimes one of the shots fits the article better or has the right feel, or perhaps the layout works better with the format of the article. See the pics above for the alternative shots didn’t end up getting published. 

These shots look great on paper and I can’t wait to do more. I wonder who I’ll photograph next for Noblesse Magazine.