CITY OF LIGHTS
CANON PRO
NAME: ALASTAIR BATCHELOR
CAMERA: CANON EOS 5D Mk III
ALASTAIR’S photographic journey began in London at 19 when he would shooting the city’s abandoned architecture. He loves portraiture, and shooting headshots for actors, promo work for bands and artists, or for editorial purposes. He’s built up an ace collection of locations around London, including neon signs in Soho that make for amazing low light portraits. For more info visit www.alastairbatchelor.com
APPRENTICE
NAME: SHANA-ROCHELLE GRAVILLIS
CAMERA: CANON EOS 5D Mk III
SHANA-ROCHELLE graduated last year from University of East London in Photography and has a passion for people portraits. After a fall that damaged a tendon in her leg she’s been bound to crutches for at least a year. But she’s determined to not let this stand in the way. Her confidence knows no bounds when shooting in a studio, but she’s more hesitant with shooting outdoors where the light is less controllable. So we’ve teamed her up with portrait pro Alastair to take some portraits in some vibrant spots around Soho.
TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
Alastair helped Shana-Rochelle prepare her camera for neon fuelled night portraits
DIAL IN THE RIGHT SETTINGS
ALASTAIR set up Shana-Rochelle’s 5D Mark III with identical settings to his. He dived into Manual mode and set the ISO to 100 and went for a Raw, for best image quality. He then opened the aperture of her 35mm lens to f/2.2 and set a shutter speed of 1/60 sec, which is fast enough to stop camera-shake appearing when shooting handheld.
CONTROL THE FOCUS
the autofocus mode to one point AF means you
