When I started looking at portraits of singers i remembered a book i had bought a couple of months ago in a second hand book/music store, it was Linda McCartney Pictures. Its a book of portraits of singers and her family, alot of the photos are of singers performing and others are them backstage. What I like about her photos is that theres very little posing and she has just captured them in the moment, this is something i always like to try and achieve in my photos. Her photos are voyeristic but in a friendly way because you can tell she knew these people and they felt comfortable around her whilst she took photos of them lounging around as well as performing. To get something similar in my portraits I am going to mainly shoot photos of Abi singing rather than lots of posed portraits (which i will also do), i am going to shoot both film and digital as always. Because all the photos i have looked at are from the 60s and 70s i think using film will help achieve that same grainyness that is in the photos i have looked at for inspiration.
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