PORTRAIT OF ARTIST, BRONTE ADAM

I love to photograph makers and creators and I also love that the studio I have at Sunny Bank Mills is full of wonderful artists who are on hand to let me take their picture when I have a new lens. Bronte is in the studio next to mine and as she was doing some printing using ink she created from clay pigment I asked if she had a spare 5 minutes so I could take her portrait. 

I have recently bought a Fujifilm GFX50s and I have a 63mm lens for it but I also realised the lens I have on my Mamiya 645 which is an 80mm will go on the camera with an attachment. The only thing is its a manual focus which is quite tricky when you’re so used to auto focus! I tried out both lenses on Bronte and I have cropped them both the same…I wonder if you can tell which lens is which? 

(The first image is the 80mm Mamiya lens and second is the GF63mm) 

If you want to see more of the studio holders at Sunny Bank Mills, I created a blog post of images featuring some of the incredibly talented artists and makers