Tim Shand

Written By Campbell Mattinson

The room – upstairs at The European/The Supper Club in Melbourne – has dark furniture, tables with white table cloths, and large windows, the latter providing a single source of soft, expansive, natural light. It’s perfect for photography. Add to this that I had just enough time with Voyager Estate winemaker Tim Shand for his facial expression to change from staged to more natural, aka charismatic. And voila.

This is one of my favourite portrait images and, indeed, one of the most popular. I’ve had more comments on this image than probably any other, saving perhaps Iago. I used this image to accompany the article here. There was an apricot-coloured lamp-shade in the original image which I’ve subsequently removed; I like the shade and it added something but, ultimately I found it too distracting. I also in post-production changed the wall panelling; if this was straight journalism I wouldn’t do that but in a portrait context I’m happy to.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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