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...
by Michael Baister | Aug 15, 2023 | analogue photography, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, film making, industrial photography, instagram, large format film photography, location film making, location photography, long exposure photography, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, story telling, sunderland commercial photography
Why do I do this for a living? Don’t worry, this isn’t a This is Your Life (Google it) detailed history of how/why I got to this point in my professional career – I save that for art school/college lectures – just so I can look at the faces of the students...
by Michael Baister | Nov 3, 2022 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location photography, long exposure photography, manfrotto, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, sony cameras, street photography, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
Yes still creating images the old fashioned way and why not, I had some film left to use and this ended up in a marathon developing session of 5/120, 4/135 and 9/5×4 sheets. Below is a bit of BTS with a Walker Titan field camera, with a 90mm lens and bag bellows...
by Michael Baister | Jul 20, 2021 | adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location photography, manfrotto, medium format, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, sony cameras, sony lenses, story telling, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
It’s another analogue trip out, this time with the Hasselblad and 4×5 Walker Titan field camera. I decided on a portrait of the Gas Monitors at Hendon in Sunderland (I also like the one in South Shields, haven’t managed a image of that one yet) these...
