Portrait

In the end it is the same approach as with the animals: wait, stay quiet, and let the face arrive on its own.

Portraits in available light, made in East Tyrol and the surrounding Alps — usually with the 70–200 mm from a distance, so that nobody has a lens in their face and nobody has to perform.

People came last for me, after the mountains and the wildlife, and I photograph them the same way: little direction beyond a word or two, and a long enough wait that the expression stops being a pose.

The Elder α7 IV FE 70–200 mm F2.8 GM II at 180 mm, 1/50 s, f/9, ISO 500

Crowned α7 IV FE 70–200 mm F2.8 GM II at 168 mm, 1/50 s, f/8, ISO 320

Into the Light FE 24–70 mm F2.8 GM at 53 mm 1/320 s, f/4, ISO 500

Painted in Red Light painting FE 24–70 mm F2.8 GM at 39 mm, 1.3 s, f/10, ISO 100