In the park

Here are a few photographs that were inspired by the work of Helen Bartlett, an London based child photographer. I attended one of her workshops back in February and was inspired test myself with an on location photoshoot, rather than the safety of the studio.

The idea was to capture the children in a natural and comfortable surrounding. I chose to make the photographs black and white, as that is the style that Helen uses and it also simplifies the images as play-parks are full of distracting colours and shapes.

For this set of photographs I used a Canon 50mm prime lens, with an aperture of between f/2 and f/2.8 to blur out a lot of the detail in the background.