Journal
Welcome to my journal. A collection of projects (personal and professional), thoughts and observations. To be honest, it’s just an excuse to showcase films, behind the scenes work, to talk and share ideas. Hope you enjoy it.
Hotel Interior
The latest location shoot for Karen Walker Design. This time it’s a commercial interior for the Best Western New Kent Hotel in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. All natural images again. Five-shot bracketed exposures (but not processed as HDR files*) just so I didn't...
Hunter Hall School
A two-day location shoot for an independent school in Cumbria. With a brief that had to be followed (nothing usual there) but with the added caveat, “These need to be beautiful!” So car packed, hat on and suncream smeared (it was blazing hot!), off we went! The...
Waterfall
Waterfall, if you can remember a previous upload about a waterfall I was hoping to visit many moons ago, well here's another go. If you follow some of this there's a lot of water in the images I create for fun, I like the idea of compressing time in a single image...
Why Do This?
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 starting to...
Behind the scenes
It's another look behind the curtain on some recent adventures. With the added bonus of an impersonation of one of the nuns in the sound of music, an art director and a few photography gods and I've had the pleasure of calling my friends! Seeya soon mb
What’s in the bag
After the last journal upload of images created on film, here's a look at "what's in the bag" honestly, this is popular on the internet, at least the sites I look at (looking slightly worried emoji). We've got here a Nikon FG20 with a winder attached, with 35mm...
Kleek
Here's an adventure in a hire studio in London for KLEEK. Creating images and video to document a photoshoot in LOFT Studios. Here's a few words from Rich from Hedley McEwan “An exciting fashion shoot in the big smoke... you’ve got to take your top man. Michael helped...
Another film trip
Again I'm still creating images the old fashioned way and why not, I had bought some more film and I've got my eye on more large format sheet film. Square images were created on a Hassleblad 2000 FC/W and the others on either a Nikon FG20 or 8008. The Film was...
More BTS
It's another look behind the curtain on recent adventures. All very exciting with a total of just under 1,000 miles travelled. We created 12 short films, shot-tethered to a computer for some interior ads, constructed a set for a fantastic food venue, used a pop-up...
Studio Equipment.
Here's, in my opinion one of the greatest things since the invention of Powdered Milk! It's an Elinchrome 44 square reflector with a grid and soft diffusion material attached (it also has a set of barn doors-see the round mounting points on the edge, but didn't need...
Camera filters
I've kept my word, here's an upload about camera filters. I use 100mm filters, that is 90% of my filters are from the Lee filter system that include neutral density grads/reverse grads/coloured grads/soft filters/polariser/colour correction filters the rest of my...
Truck Photography
Trucking Heck! Here’s an interesting commission. I’ve had previous experience with automotive photography before including car/truck images. One project of note was for Northern Rock Building Society. This was at the time, a fairly complex comping job of four cars for...