Agile Lab - Training, Coaching and Consultancy: My Mate Chris Gloag a Hedge Fund Manager and a Horse!!!

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From: Chris Gloag <studio@chrisgloag.com>
Date: 20 July 2011 10:00
Subject: Chris shoots Lex Van Dam - On a horse in front of the Royal Exchange, London..
To: "mark.stringer@mumbly.co.uk" <mark.stringer@mumbly.co.uk>

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I was asked to take a portrait of Lex Van Dam (a trader and hedge fund manager) by Quotenet.nl, a Dutch financial magazine.

When the call came through that they wanted him riding a horse outside the Royal Exchange my first thoughts were to a complicated photoshop stitch envolving green screens and hours of retouch. In fact they just hired a horse and Lex got on it and we shot for 20 minutes completely unmolested by the authorities. Bliss.

I shot the image with the Canon 17-40 wide angle lens to get the whole of the horse in and the whole of the Royal Exchange with detail and texture in both. Lighting was 2 Canon Speedlights to lighten Lex (separating him from the background a little) and to make the horse shine like a statue to give him solidity. It was one of those beautifully atmospheric rainy London days and this was honoured in post production (along with the removal of a million chewing gums!).