I am nearly finished with shooting at the abandoned mansion featured in all the images in my Fragments gallery. I’ve just a few last photos to take and then will stop visiting there regularly after this weekend. So these are my final days there and I’ve been making the most of it. 

Last Sunday I did a private photoshoot with two Singaporean photographers, Alec Ee and Bilal Zaheer. Bilal also brought along two models – Carol and Jessica (pictures below).

The shoot started during the afternoon and went on for three hours. Rain persisted throughout although it didn’t get in the way too much. If you know my style of photography, you’ll know I tend to try to shoot almost exclusively with natural light so was fun working with the small that were remaining in the house on a heavily overcast day. The models worked hard and posed admirably. Definitely a great experience for me working with them, Alec and Bilal – also very fun.

Although a tripod would have been good, I didn’t use one as for shoots like this, I tend to move around a lot (and fairly quickly) and I find a tripod too restrictive. So occasionally ISO got bumped to 800, but as you know with the 5D this is not a particularly big deal. All shots were taken with the 5D and 24-105.

I was very pleased that I managed go to get two shots for my Fragments gallery – the rest were portrait shots in a more classical sense (although as usual, my interpretation of "classical"). I’ve attached a couple of shots below. The rest you can see at my Pbase gallery – The Old Mansion.

Carol, 105mm, 1/25s, F/4, ISO-800 (click for larger)

Jessica, 75mm, 1/15s, F/4, ISO-200 (click for larger)

Jessica, 58mm, 1/32s, F/4, ISO-320 (click for larger)

Carol, 105mm, 1/30s, F/4, ISO-200 (click for larger)

Alec / Bilal / Carol / Jessica – thank you and look forward to next time!