Portrait time

I am the first to admit that taking staged portraits is a bit uncomfortable for me and one of my weaker photographic styles. So it was a fun challenge today to take a series of picture for a young friends university stage school portfolio.

Some didn't work and the lighting was tricky but I got a few I liked and this is my favourite so far. I will have to process the rest tomorrow though as its getting late.

p.s. I have just looked at the one year ago image and amusingly its the same person but with slightly different make-up :-)