Archive for March, 2010
Bucks Univeristy Glass & Ceramics Photography
Posted by Paul in Commercial, For Website on March 28th, 2010
Well, you can never accuse us of always photographing the same thing. Although, clearly, we specialise in capturing images of people, just sometimes a job comes along that is really quite different.
We’ve been working with the guys at Bucks University in High Wycombe on and off over the past couple of years and it’s always one of the most intriguing and interesting sessions for us. Trying to capture the essence of someone else’s creativity (rather than just our own) is both challenging and hugely rewarding.
This session was for some of the artists in residence at the university and their work is extraordinary. Hopefully that’s how it comes across in the pictures!
Photographing Kids presention at Focus On Imaging 2010: Slideshow 2
Posted by Paul in For Website, General, News on March 10th, 2010
For anyone who attended our ‘The business of photographing children’ seminar yesterday on the Graphistudio stand at Focus On Imaging (and for anyone else who would like a look), here is the second of the two AV slideshows.
Enjoy!
Photographing Kids presention at Focus On Imaging 2010: Slideshow 1
Posted by Paul in For Website, General, News on March 10th, 2010
For anyone who attended our ‘The business of photographing children’ seminar yesterday on the Graphistudio stand at Focus On Imaging (and for anyone else who would like a look), here is the first of the two AV slideshows.
Enjoy!
Graphistudio Presentations at Focus On Imaging 2010
Posted by Paul in For Website, General, News on March 10th, 2010
Focus On Imaging is always good fun if you’re into photography – with plenty to look at and listen to, it’s one of the key dates in a UK Photographer’s diary. This year, though, we were also presenting our work on Graphistudio’s stand – and we’ve had a fantastic time!
So, a huge ‘thank you’ to Graphistudio for asking us along (it’s a huge honour to be working with these guys – and their albums are simply stunning!) and to everyone who came and sat through our musings. We’ve had loads of really lovely comments so I hope everyone found it useful/amusing/entertaining/a good place to sleep*
For everyone who was there (and for anyone else who’s interested) we’re posting the two AV’s we used yesterday. I know the plasma wasn’t brilliant but hopefully it didn’t prove too much of a distraction.
I should point out that we have now licensed this website with the music guys at PRS/MCPS (I think they’re now called the Music Alliance) so that we can use and show our slideshows online. This is something that we couldn’t really do before so watch this space and hopefully we’ll get more of our slideshow content up here.
Cheers
P.
*delete as applicable (I’m joking about anyone falling asleep – though I did keep a look out!)
Sophie: test shots from our new toy – the Nikon D3X
Posted by Paul in For Website, General on March 2nd, 2010
Ah, so it’s arrived and out of the box. Took me a while to set up all the menus to be exactly how I like them but ’tis all done and is ready to roll. One shiny Nikon D3X.
We’ve added this high-res camera to our trusty D3’s as we’re doing an increasing amount of fashion and commercial work (though I’d love to see a wall-size family canvas generated from this thing) and the extra resolution is a real help. One thing about commercial work is that the designers/clients like to have additional cropping room in an image and this compromises the overall resolution (i.e. picture quality) of the image. The D3X has twice the resolution of the D3 (and, at 12 Mega-pixels, these weren’t bad by any means!) and when you put some of our beautiful lenses on the front, the image quality is utterly compelling. The designers’ wish is our command!
We’re very lucky here to have many friends who’ll help us out – even at stupidly short notice – and so Sophie (the fantastic model we worked with recently for Sassy & Co.) agreed to pop round and help me to quickly put it through its paces. Half an hour later and we have these really lovely street/studio images. Believe me, the camera is working perfectly (admittedly, it helps that Sophie is stunning of course!)
With bags of resolution, this thing is going to be a joy to work with. It will slow me down, however, as the files do take a while to both write to the memory cards and to work with in production. However, they’re worth the wait! And you never know, it might be a good thing to slow down the ol’ continuous shooting!
In a few of the images below, I’ve cropped into the image (the crops are roughly 4 Mega-pixel images taken from the 24MP original) to show just how much fun we’re going to have! Please note that the website doesn’t quite do them justice (we’ve compressed them down or you’d be waiting a long time for them to load!)
Tomorrow we’ll be working with it for real. I’ll keep you posted, but for now there’s a great big fat grin permanently planted across my face!
Ben & Barbara’s pre-wedding session in Southampton
Posted by Paul in For Website, Pre-Wedding on March 2nd, 2010
Is it just me, or do I appear to laugh for a living?
I don’t mean to sound criminally chirpy (believe me I’m really not – I do like to think I have a cool, dark and mysterious side though, admittedly, I could be well wide of the mark here) but there aren’t many things that make me happier than being out with a client and a camera. Being with my family is top of the list of course, just ahead of photography and closely followed by (in no particular order) Guinness; roast dinners; curry; snowboarding; skiing; loud music (Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster 2009 sounds pretty good at the moment with the volume pumped way too high); a hot beach (to be precise, a good book with a beer on a hot beach); Single Malt; mountain biking and maybe just a little traveling around the globe thrown in for good measure.
Actually, that now sounds like a very very corny CV. Still, it’s irrelevant as we’re working flat out at the moment and photography is pretty much the only thing I get to do. It’s a good job it’s high on the list then!
Ben and Barbara had the full force of me being chipper I’m afraid. I can’t help it. The weather for this, their pre-wedding shoot, was dire, but they’re very funny to be around so we just laughed a lot. And occasionally stopped to take a picture or two. Both Ben and Barbara (‘Bird’ to her friends – I had to refrain from using her nickname as if anyone overheard me pointing a camera and saying ‘that’s it Bird, you look perfect’…) are ultra-fit. I don’t mean kinda normal go-to-the-gym-once-a-week-and-play-squash-when-I-can-be-bothered sort of fit. I mean international yachtswoman (Barbara) and alpine mountain bike guide (Ben) fit. Which left me feeling embarrassingly out of shape. Still, I can take a good picture so, given both Ben and Bird are into their photography, maybe they forgave the eagerness with which I accepted a cup of tea after a couple of hours’ shooting!
It’s really nice when our clients are fun to be with like this. Makes the trip down to Southampton completely worthwhile. Even in the pouring rain.
Loved the shoot, love the images, can’t wait until the wedding!
Nancy, Phil & Oscar: Pre-Wedding session in Greenwich Park, London
Posted by Paul in For Website, Pre-Wedding on March 1st, 2010
I love working in London. I think I love it more now than when I used to travel into the city every day. And I loved it then.
There’s always a sense of style, of drama. A kind of feeling of history everywhere you look. And it’s utterly fantastic. The only other city I’ve loved working in as much is New York. Only for us, London is on our doorstep which makes things a little more accessible than The Big Apple!
It’s going to be great this season as as we have a number of clients in our famous capital city so I’m going nipping in and out a lot!
This particular shoot is with a couple whose wedding we’re going to be photographing at The Crazy Bear in Stadhampton. Now I’m always excited about our Crazy Bear weddings but with the added twist of working with a client in Greenwich, well, things couldn’t be better.
Greenwich park, like many of London’s vast green expanses, is simply fantastic to work in. Even with the world’s tourists – having seemingly broken into some kind of odd-ball clothing shop – amassing tera-pixel upon tera-pixel of self-portraits around you, the parks feel fresh and open – and quintessentially London. And with Canary Wharf and the Millenium Dome (or is that now the O2 Arena?) just in the distance you couldn’t feel closer to the vast metropolis.
I loved this shoot. Even in the pouring rain (have a look at some of the images!). It was a wonderful space to play. And, as is so often the case, the client – Nancy & Phil and their little boy, Oscar, were brilliant fun. A very very fine way to spend an afternoon in lovely company. Oh, and we captured some beautiful images too!
And, once we’d finished and packed the cameras away, we had the added benefit of nipping down the road to some of oldest (a.k.a. long-suffering) friends’ for bit of tea’n'cake. Had I not been driving, it would have been a beer. Or two. Still, pretty much a perfect end to a perfect day.
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