{"id":206,"date":"2010-02-08T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2010-02-22T01:04:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:04:32","slug":"ceri-magdalen-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/ceri-magdalen-college","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of a pianist at Magdalen College, Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday I met talented pianist Ceri to take publicity shots for her website and upcoming album releases of her recordings of Bach. We spent the afternoon shooting in the picturesque grounds of Magdalen College, Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was perfect for the kind of photography we were doing: overcast with no rain, the clouds producing a good strong\u00a0diffused light. (I like to think of the British weather as silver, not grey&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_5874-Edit.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"222\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/ceri-magdalen-college\/img_5874-edit#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_5874-Edit.jpg?fit=537%2C782&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"537,782\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Mat Smith&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mat-smith-photography-ceri-oxford-magdalen-cloisters\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_5874-Edit.jpg?fit=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_5874-Edit.jpg?fit=537%2C782&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-222\" title=\"mat-smith-photography-ceri-oxford-magdalen-cloisters\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_5874-Edit.jpg?resize=537%2C782&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mat Smith Photography - 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