...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Photography where a posed or candid portrait is the primary focus, often (though not always) more detached from the environment the subject inhabits.
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a charity event I shot recently for Elliot’s Footprint – a charity providing support for parents after losing a child. I have decided black tie (or even red tie) events are the most difficult thing to shoot as you usually have black suits …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I spent the evening on Hallowe’en in a certain old Mill building in Holbeck where Photocamp Leeds had set up a spooky Hallowe’en shoot. I used this to experiment with a few different techniques – wide angle shots, using a Lensbaby for portraits, and off …
Reading Time: 3 minutes …the opportunity to share skills and play with new equipment, and also the chance to do some work with models.
This is Amelia – she said that she was relatively new to modelling and it was mostly a hobby for her, but i found her great to work with…
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s been a busy weekend here. I must confess I was a little apprehensive about all this. Not really by choice, but simply because I haven’t really found many people as obsessed as I am with taking pictures , much of my photography has been …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I also shot a bit of film at the wedding I have talked about in my last post – largely for amusement and experimentation. I think these have actually come out very well – but I can’t imagine shooting a whole wedding event to film, …
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Don’t do it’, they all say… ‘Shooting a wedding for a fried or family member is a baaaaad idea.’ Of course many photographers would love the chance to jump in and shoot a wedding – for may it is seen as a surefire way to …
Reading Time: 3 minutes …And at the end of the day, fashion photography is marketing. Whilst many of us will happily buy a misshapen carrot, if you want to advertise carrots you would show them in their best light. If you don’t like it then just avoid the fashion industry, as it is not going to change. Sorry.
Sozzani’s comment is meaningless. I would warrant that the ‘very few’ who don’t use Photoshop don’t use it because they use something else…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was commissioned to create these shots for Sunniva Brunel’s project, shooting their practice sessions at the College of Music. This was worrking low light, no flash obviously, trying to get shots atmospheric shots while being unobtrusive. I worked with the 50mm f/1.8 lens at …
