37-year old JP Trenque has lived in London since 1994. His day job as an information consultant for the Northern Trust bank sees him travelling to the Canaries five times a week (Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, that is).
Current Chairman of BSoUP, JP has been diving for 28 years, taken still images for the past 6 and was a keen videographer before that. He currently uses a Nikon D200 in a Sea & Sea housing and some of his images & articles can be found on www.jptrenque.com
When not busy taking pictures in some exotic location or saving the world from total financial meltdown, JP volunteers as an RNLI helmsman on the Thames lifeboat.
"I wanted to create a classic-looking portfolio, with as little manipulation as possible. There were originally 3 images I wanted to use. I thought the 2 wide-angle silhouette shots would work well because, while I found them very pleasing, they were very simple, uncluttered shots. These would go to opposite ends of the portfolios, but at this stage, I hadn't yet decided whether they would fit better on the top or bottom line. The jellyfish with its reflection would add warmth to the composition.
To keep some symmetry in the portfolio, I knew I needed 2 more warm images and one blue one. I chose the lionfish image because the soft coral matched the orange of the jellyfish nicely. I also liked the movement of the fish in the picture. This would be my top left image.
The 2 middle images were the most difficult ones to choose. I originally wanted another orange dominant colour for he bottom image but couldn't find any that would fit. So I decided to add some red and yellow with this tiny yellow damsel (is it actually a juvenile yellow damsel ?). For the top middle, I decided to go for a second reflection shot but was worried that the image was too complex to project as part of a portfolio.
I was going to dispense with the frame around the image, but the black background of the jellyfish and the yellow damsel would have unbalanced the portfolio. So I created a very thin (1 pixel) yellow frame around each image. |
