This week I decided to revisit some portrait work that I did as part of a workshop with my local Camera Club. We had spent the day down at the Curragh Camp followed by some practical work over on the stunning grounds of the National Stud Farm and Japanese Gardens in Kildare, where we got the chance to shoot a number of models in different settings. I have used some of these images from the day as part of the weekly Monochrome Madness Challenge, but for some strange reason unbeknown to me, I never used any of these shots for a Re-work. So here it goes, first up on the day was the exotic Shirley with her period Asian dress. Obviously the only place to shoot was in the Japanese Gardens. You can check out the original set of images from this shoot by clicking HERE. With this image I started with a tighter crop, followed by the mono conversion in Silver Effex. When painting back in some colour to the image I was torn between whether or no to colour in the bridge as well, as it had a gorgeous hi gloss finish. In the end, sometimes less can be more so i left the image as is. I hope you all like it? As always your comments/suggestions/critique are most welcome.
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Ed Mooney Photography 
Very nice work Ed, love the red.
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Thank you 🙂
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Even though I adore bridges, I think the highlighting of the model only was best.
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Yes sometimes less can be more 🙂
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Definitely! Nothing worse than an overly busy photo.
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That works so well! Glad you decided to colour in the figure only and not the bridge… red is so stunning on a b&w background.
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Thanks Ali, the bridge was a lovely red as well, but it might have been a bit too much 🙂
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Maybe you should do it anyway and let us see?
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Ok I will, its a gorgeous place to visit as you have the National Stud farm and St. Fiachra’s Garden all together. A little expensive but a good day out 🙂
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I like that you are including people, mostly your gorgeous mini ruinhunters, in some of your shots lately… gives scale and contrasts these ancient ‘dead’ buildings with life and energy and youth. I like that, it gives an extra dimension, although some images need to be left well alone in all their isolated glory like Black Castle for instance.
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Perfect editing – too much distraction when the bridge was red, in my view! 🙂
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I thought so too, Thanks Donna 🙂
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Love to see the way you use colour in your pictures – and I love the bridge as you have it here – too much red otherwise.
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Verra nice!
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Thanks Elen 🙂
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