by Michael Baister | Aug 13, 2026 | analogue photography, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, instagram, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, nikon cameras, nikon lenses, northeast commercial photography, sunderland commercial photography, vintage lens
The above image shows two 180mm f2.8 lenses, on the left a manual focus version and you can see an image created with this lens here which is the swimming image near the bottom of the post (traditionally when covering a football match a 300mm was used to cover the...
by Michael Baister | Jul 17, 2026 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, instagram, michael baister photography, nikon cameras, nikon lenses, northeast commercial photography, sunderland commercial photography
Now this is a strange lens in this day and age! To what exactly does the “GN” in “GN Nikon 45mm” refer? Younger people may be unfamiliar with the acronym. “Guide number” (GN) is an indicator for measuring flash performance. Modern...
by Michael Baister | Jun 2, 2025 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, architectural interior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, DaVinci Resolve, elinchrome lighting, film making, food photography, godox lighting, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, lee filters, location film making, location lighting, location photography, location portrait, long exposure photography, michael baister photography, music photography, newcastle commercial photography, nikon cameras, nikon flash, nikon lenses, northeast commercial photography, story telling, studio photography, studio portrait, sunderland commercial photography
Here’s a location workshop and industry talk at Newcastle College of Art and Design in the photography department, organised by senior lecturers Alan Thorburn and Zoe Korda. I’ve done things like this many times and I think it’s a rewarding thing to...
by Michael Baister | Jan 2, 2025 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, architectural interior, benro tripods, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, elinchrome lighting, godox lighting, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location film making, location lighting, location photography, location portrait, long exposure photography, medium format, michael baister photography, music photography, newcastle commercial photography, nikon cameras, nikon flash, nikon lenses, northeast commercial photography, street photography, studio portrait, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
Lets start the new year with our best foot forward, well maybe not in the image above! While we consider that, why not have a look at what images graced the Shot of the Month in 2024. It’s a mixed bag as usual and the “results are in” buildings, a...
by Michael Baister | Dec 12, 2024 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, architectural interior, benro tripods, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, DaVinci Resolve, film making, Giotto tripods, godox lighting, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location film making, location lighting, location photography, location portrait, long exposure photography, medium format, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, nikon cameras, nikon flash, nikon lenses, sony cameras, sony lenses, story telling, street photography, studio photography, studio portrait, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
Well here we go again. It feels like Xmas is every three months, surely it can’t have been twelve months ago since I wrote the Xmas 23 upload! This year has been an interesting one. A return to some truck photography, some interesting architectural...
by Michael Baister | Oct 15, 2024 | adobe photoshop, analogue photography, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, instagram, large format film photography, location photography, location portrait, manfrotto, medium format, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, story telling, sunderland commercial photography
This is a still image project which is part of something a little larger. Maybe more about that later. I decided to create images for this part of the project with large and medium format cameras that shoot film. As you can see in the image grid below I used a...
