…. Happy New Year!
Ok, so this isn’t the first post of the year but it the first post of NYE related photos. Here’s a couple of my favourite pics from the 2012 new years eve parade in Newcastle, and one of the fireworks, because who doesn’t like fireworks?
Posted in Commercial Work, Event Photography, Reportage, Tourism
Over the Xmas period had the chance to spend some time in the studio working on my own photography finally. In preparation for an upcoming personal project that I’m planning I thought I’d test out a lighting setup on a few of old cameras I keep about the studio. But seeing as I like these ‘test’ shots quite a bit I thought I’d share them with you all.
Posted in Personal Work, Studio
Tagged 35mm, 8mm, brownie, C41, cameras, collection, collector, film, lomo, Lomography, petri, product photography, reflection, studio lighting, studio photography
A very different shoot from the one in the previous post was for a local independent coffee shop on it’s opening day. Navaho Coffee opened it’s doors recently to serve the thousands of workers on the UK’s largest office park (Cobalt Business Park).
Posted in Commercial Work, Interiors
Tagged black & white, black & white photography, business park, cobalt business park, coffee shop, customers, drinking, eating, exposed brick, independent business, interiors, interiors photography, local, north east england, Reportage, Reportage photography, serving, staff
It’s always nice to pick up a new client, but especially so when that client is a large multinational company.
Recently I was approached by Akzo Nobel to shoot a member of staff at his office for use in an advert to be shown worldwide, following their strict corporate guidelines. As you can see from the finished advert below it worked out ok, and hopefully there will be many more shoots to follow.
Now that I finally had a little time to sit and work in the studio, over the Xmas and New Year period, I thought I should share what my space looks like with you all.
Located in a beautifully converted old church just 1.5 miles from the very centre of Newcastle my personal studio space is approx 90ftsq, with access to a larger hireable studio.
The hire space is approx 430 ftsq and includes a scoop over 16ft high.
Other facilities include a fully equipped modern kitchen and secure parking.
Back at the start of the year on a very cold and windy Northumberland beach we shot a Spring/Summer campaign for ‘Reluctant Hero’, a clothing brand based between Manchester and Newcastle.
Unbelievably, the day before the shoot we scouted the locations in a blizzard! Just goes to show what a difference a day makes, as well as some careful cropping out of the patches of snow still on the ground.
The UKs biggest open water swim at took place at the end of June in the chilly waters of Lake Windermere. Although problems due to the terrible weather forced the cancellation of the first 2 days of racing for safety reasons, the mood on the final day was still certainly better than the weather.
Here’s a handful of the shots of the brave competitors taken from both land and from speedboat.
Posted in Commercial Work, Event Photography, Sport Photography
Tagged cold, colour photography, commercial photography, competition, competitors, Cumbria, goggles, Great North Swim, lake, Lake District, Lake Windermere, professional photography, racing, Reportage, sport, Swimming, tourism, water, wet suits
