An old negative that I decided to re-visit.

Pure Monochrome

Doing things the old fashioned way. Pentax 67, Ilford FP4+, Lots of dodging and burning

Alison Cain, West Wittering beach

Shoot with Saffi Karina, shot in the middle of the day in bright sunshine, on a beach, just like you aren't supposed to do!

Portrait in West Sussex

From a portrait session last month. To book your session contact me through my website www.tobiaskey.com

Simplicity

Recently I'm feeling that I want to simplify my work. Although I love digital and the flexibility it brings to the shooting and post production process, I feel that I'm incrementally becoming less of a photographer and more of a photo illustrator, tampering with everything in an infinitely malleable digital file. Indeed, it seems the industry is going this way and never really asking the question "Should we do this?". With advent of the photoshop or internet model who will remain stubbornly plain in real life unless someone invents glasses that do 8 hours of retouching on everything you see, I'm simplifying what I do and trying to get by with film, a scanner with some contrast control and dodging and burning. Above is a picture of Lara unretouched and naturally beautiful.

New Treatments of old work

Just reworking some pictures for my new portfolio. It's amazing how time away from your old work lets you edit it better when you return.