Good jobs done good

I've mentioned before that there's a certain style of photo that I really like, the ones where you bring one or more people in to the foreground and have others in the background. That layering of people gives the photo some depth and makes it infinitely more interesting and eye-catching than having everyone bunched together in a group. It's a technique that Bobby Nelson uses to great effect, and it's one of the reasons why I consider him the best photographer in the region.

Obviously you can't use this technique with every photo. For example a picture of a prizegiving would look ridiculous if you had the winner in the foreground and the person giving the prize in the background. Similarly with group shots everyone is usually 'equal' in the picture so in most cases it doesn't make sense to have some of them separated at the front. And seeing as most of the photos I do for the local papers are either prizegivings or group shots of some sort, I don't get much opportunity to use this technique with the photos I do for them, whereas I've frequently used it for my Press & Journal photos.

Anyway the whole point of mentioning this is that that I've done a few pics in this style recently, all of which I really like. These are the sort of photos that I used to look at and think, I wish I could do pictures like that. So it's nice to know that I can! These are all in this week's Ross-shire Journal apart from the pic of the two guys with the strike sign as there were two photos done for the same story and it's the picture of the guys in the hi-vis vests that was used.