After a day of shooting in London, I decided to visit the National Portrait Gallery with a friend and had a good look around at some of the new installments.

Some of the sections didn't allow us to take photos, which was disappointing, but I did photograph where able.

The images were inspiring in terms of composition, lighting and richness. Each image was powerful in a different way and one thing I did notice is that there were no 'filler' photos or paintings, they were all designed to blow you away. From this, I can take that I would like all of my work from this point on to be blowing people away, and will aim to cut out all photos below par.

Below are some images from the gallery.