Photography News Issue 58

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Photography News | Issue 58 | photographynews.co.uk

Shoot people pictures towin Take the Profoto Portrait Challenge With a superb Profofo A1, the world’s smallest studio light, to be won and four monthly prizes of a Profoto reflector, this free-to-enter contest is not to be missed. The four monthly winners will be judged against each other and the image judged to be best overall picture will win the Profoto A1. Environmental portraits was last month’s challenging subject and our thanks go to everyone who took the trouble to enter. It was a close-run thing between the shortlisted entries but Nick Steadman’s entry was chosen as this month’s winner

WINNER

Nick Steadman

“Wow! What can I say other than to thank the judges from Photography News and Profoto for choosing my picture. I've really enjoyed the various challenges of the contest.

“I contacted my local blacksmith, Ben, at his workshop in Brackley (Iron Forged Designs) and asked if I could take some shots of him at work. He kindly agreed to beat the

hell out of a piece of metal while I fired away. I took several shots but I liked this end result with sparks flying everywhere. It was taken with a handheld Pentax K3 with a

31mm f/1.8 lens. The exposure was set on 1/100sec at f/5.6 and ISO 400. It was all natural light from the pig iron sparks and no flash was used.”

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