My first image with a copyright and watermark.

Today was another learning curve. Find out how to watermark and copyright my images, thanks Karen (work colleague). Well, it took me 4-5 hours to find out how to do this in Lightroom. I have learned a lot over the past week, and need to get this website as best as it can be. Also to protect my images from being used and edited without my permission.

I took this image of my wife Lesley this evening in the spare room, It was the same set up as yesterday. I used my old Nikon D510 DSLR and a 50mm prime lens ( Yongnuo) which is very sharp for taking portraits. My settings were, focal length - 50mm, f4 aperture, 1/125s shutter speed, ISO 200. I felt the exposure was good with the soft box light set up. I took around 30-40 images, and most were done ad hoc, and I got Lesley to pose, and made her comfortable, and every now and then stopped to show the images I took.

This image was edited in the Snapseed app on my mobile (I normally use Light room). I cropped the original image in ever so slightly, then converted it to black and white, then used a noir filter at the end. I feel this image portrays emotion , calmness and thought, The leading line at the wrist through a diagonal direction looked really nice, with a dark shadow on her right side added another moody feeling. Her denim jacket, added texture to the image and there is a lot of negative space either side of her face and the left shoulder. I liked this a lot, one of my best portrait images to date.

A nice black and white, noir portrait taken this evening at my home studio,