Portrait of a local landscape photographer, Paul Keating.

Paul lives just along the street from me. We're in a small village (actually three small villages all linked together) in the Scottish Highlands. Over the last year or so Paul has had great success selling prints of his landscape pictures in a local shop, so I suggested to the village newsletter that we should do a profile of him: Basically a lightweight local-interest article / interview along the lines of "meet the man behind the pictures".

Paul's landscapes mostly feature the sea so we spent about half an hour on the beach today doing an environmental portrait for the front page lede. We did lots of shots on the rocks and out on a pier, and just for once the main shot worked out exactly how I had intended so that's the one I think we'll use. It was one of the last shots we did as all of the other ones required better light so I did those first.

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Paul Keating

Shot specs:
Canon 1D  •  17-40 f/4L  •  1/500s  •  17mm  •  f/9  •  ISO 200

Lighting was a Canon 550EX on a light stand at approx 75 degrees to the left, about six feet away from Paul and a foot above his eyeline, triggered by an ST-E2 wireless transmitter. Everything was chimp metered, manual settings.

For the camera spotters, Paul's camera is a Canon 5D with grip and 17-40 f/4L.

Visit Paul's web site: Scottish Impressions