I love having a project to aim at and thanks to Strobist and Clay Enos I’ve found one. Urban portraits!

The prospect of taking pictures of complete strangers creates all sorts of feelings. I like Clay’s approach in the video above. At some point every photographer has to overcome that barrier, whether it’s a portrait session, wedding or whatever. The subject needs to be comfortable with you, and you need to be comfortable with that process. Clay doesn’t give the subjects much time to think about the situation, and as a result comes away with some great results.

Can I translate this into a series of portraits of my sleepy New Forest village? I don’t know. But I’ll relish the challenge!