Angel Lamesa
The job was to take portrait images of Melbourne actor Angel Lamesa. It was a brief session but this shot – one of the only ‘wide’ shots I took – is the pick. The light through the frosted window, the wistful pose, the plain elegance of it. I like the light. The vibe. The calm. I was using the 85mm Sigma f1.4 DG DN lens, which of course isn’t a wide-angle lens, on a Sony full-frame body, but I stood a ways back to get a wider impression. It worked here but I wished that I bought a 35mm.
What was kind of interesting was that I also had a Fujifilm APSC camera with me. It was the X-H2, which I’ve since sold. I had the original 35mm f1.4 on it, or a 50mm equivalent, roughly. The picture below is with the Fujifilm. The RAW files look very different; the Fujifilm files look better straight off, but are harder to process. This harder to process impression was peculiar to this shoot; I don’t usually find Fuji files difficult to process.
Caption: Portraits (above and below) of Melbourne actor Angel Lamesa, taken by photographer Campbell Mattinson.
Just as an aside, the top image here looks touch-and-go better in black-and-white.
