Agile Lab - Training, Coaching and Consultancy: Chairman of a hedge fund (geddit) New Portrait

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From: Chris Gloag <studio@chrisgloag.com>
Date: 30 August 2011 10:30
Subject: New Portrait - Chris shoots Barnaby with Chairman Pat
To: "mark@agilelab.co.uk" <mark@agilelab.co.uk>

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Barnaby Wiener looks after a $2.8 Billion Hedge Fund and in his spare time looks after his hedge jumping horse Chairman Pat.

I shot the portrait at Barnaby's stables deep in the Sussex Downs (UK) near to where Barnaby lives. Shooting with a frisky big race horse wheeling around is not easy and it took quite a time to organise Barnaby and the horse to be together, still enough and nonchalant looking! For the picture to work they had to look connected and collected.

I was shooting really close up with the 35 mm f1.4 lens to give me the horse, Barnaby and the environment behind in the proportion that I wanted. It would have been easy to use a wide angle zoom lens but the 35mm lens is so fast to shoot with and gives such a beautifully atmospheric quality to the background, I had to shoot on it. If I had to take just one lens on a portrait shoot it would be this one.

The art direction on the treatment involved giving the shot an interesting shadow fill process with a little high light recovery. It gives you a flatter mid tone and sometimes a grainy illustrated feel.

Barrons magazine commissions some really high quality imagery and I love shooting for them as they always have a challenging brief.

If you would like to see my portfolio to discuss a photographic project you have then please get in touch. You can get me on my cell anytime +44 (0) 7759 344495.