Day 164 – Toy Town
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Toy Town – Images by Michael Shilling
About the Shoot
This isn’t my usual style, in fact I would consider myself first and foremost a portrait photographer. I did want to add to my personal stock library some images that I could use in designs for future projects.
All of these images were taken at Malmsbury Primary School in Merton and are used on a daily basis by the teachers to help some the nursery children with their language difficulties.
I’m not quite sure where the toys came from but they did seem quite unusual. I wanted to somehow bring a little bit of personality out of the characters at shoot them as if they were any normal portrait subjects.
Everything was shot in a 5D MkII with a Canon EF 24-70mm 2.8 L lens. The images were given very basic Photoshop processing using the Guy Gowan Retouch Action.
About the Photographer
Michael has been working as a photographer for the last 10 years. He is the owner of Memory Gate Photographic and Redrosette Equestrian Photography.
Oh….. and he is the editor of this Blog and it’s Podcast…
You can find Michael on Twitter at twitter.com/MemoryGate
On Facebook at www.facebook.com/memorygate and www.facebook.com/pages/Redrosette-Equestrian-Photography/121577497196
