Neil Danton

…tough in the Editorial world, and publications are trying to keep an eye on expenses, but reducing travel fees by assigning me to shoot an editorial portrait of someone that lives in the SAME STREET as me is surely as far as it can go!

So anyway, that was the 2nd portrait I was assigned to shoot that day, and maybe a story for another time, but first up I had an assignment for one of the “Sundays”.

My subject was a doctor, and we were to meet at the University. The story related to medicines, or pills, or drugs or something (must pay more attention to what picture editors say) and we had a handily located display cabinet of old medicine paraphernalia nearby, so went with that as a prop for one image.

There was also a plain white wall, well it was the underside of a staircase actually, and I felt I wanted to get an image of some kind there as well. Problem was, when I say plain white, I mean it was very plain, and very boring, but something was drawing me there to make an image.

So I went to the local hardware store and bought some paint, and painted some shapes onto the white wall for effect:

OK then, I didn’t paint the wall at all in truth. Put a strobe on the floor and fired through the handily located foliage to create the shadow pattern.

TTFN