yes agree, very dramatic

Great set. Really like the bakehouse monos.

Think my fave is the steps, which I recall you photographing before, but the leaves give a seasonal feel.

Welcome. I use K-1 and K-1II, so any questions please ask away.

Wow.....no.3 has heaps of drama.

Weather is the same here in Woking.....but without the views

Love these...well done.

Well you have captured some great images here in spite of the circumstances. 2/4/6 stand out for me. Excellent.

The detail is quite stunning.

Cracking set as usual. No.2 gets my vote but very difficult to choose between any of them.

Thank you all for the kind comments. I can assure you all that Rio gets well paid for his modelling work. Extra gravy bones and cuddles from his daddy (I think he prefers the former).

From a technical perspective it may be of interest to note that I did not use a black background for this shot. It was taken outside at around 4.00 pm. The back garden was the backdrop, and although dull weather, was certainly not night time. At 1/180s ISO 100 and f8 however the ambient light was low enough to almost create a completely black background, which I only needed to darken slightly in Photoshop to remove any detail.

Rio himself was lit by a single flash fitted with a bulb-style diffuser. I used Manual exposure on the camera and manually set the flash to almost 1/2 power. The dim ambient light was just enough to add a tiny amount of fill-light to him.

This is not the set-up I would use in a studio environment where I would typically use two or three flash units, all off-camera, but for an outdoor shoot where both subject and photographer are on the move this can be very effective.

Beautiful lens too !!!