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.
Standard lens
Yes, sorry, it's another vintage lens obsession, this time it's the humble standard lens. In the olden days a 50mm lens was what you got with nearly every camera, they were cheap and usually pretty good! Above it's a Nikon E Series (black) on a Nikon D3x, these...
A Proper Idea
Here’s some page grabs from a fantastic piece of print from Traveller and the Bear. There’s lots of projects in here, but it’s only fair that I show my involvement. They’re a fantastic agency that I’ve been priviledged to work with on a number of different types of...
SOTM Review 22
Let's hope it's his/her year. It's the start of a new year so why not have a look at what images graced the Shot of the Month in 2022. As usual it's a mixed bag and the stats show 3ish portraits, 3ish landscapes, 3ish studio images, 3ish architectural studies, 2ish...
It’s Xmas-22
Happy Xmas! It's been another strange year. Good in some ways, not so good in others. But looking back, it’s been a lot of fun as usual. I think last year I mentioned that kindness to others arguably increased over the last couple of years due to what we have all...
Landscapes 2
So after a conglomeration of vintage lenses, short films and interior behind the scenes Journal posts, I created a landscape upload. And like London buses, here’s another! The first one was created at Derwent Water with a Nikon D800e and a 24mmPCE lens with a 10 stop...
Landscapes
It’s another Scottish Highlands adventure! I had a bit of down time after a particular job (that I was really looking forward to) got pulled at short notice!! Lots of things go through my mind when embarking on a remote shoot. Usually I would plan this like a military...
Flower Study
Above is another vintage lens with aparent mythical qualities! It’s a Tamron 90mm SP manual focus macro lens. Long ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth, Tamron had a fantastic idea and came up with a lens mount system called Adaptal 2. You could buy the lens with the...
More Film?
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 9/5x4 sheets. Below is a bit of BTS with a Walker Titan field camera, with a 90mm lens and bag bellows...
Location Filming
Another look behind the curtain! This is a video for Think Ahead, this time on location at Middlesex University. There were quite a few things to consider when shooting this one! We shot two types of interviews and social media framing had to be taken into account, an...
Colour Temperature
Following on from another interior photography commission from Karen Walker Design in a previous Journal upload. In that post, I spoke about using a colour temperature meter. I didn't shoot any Behing the Scenes on Karen's last interior, but like London buses, I...
Interior Photography
It's an interior project with a bit of subtle lighting, no BTS images for this one, just wanted the images to speak for themselves this time. So because of that ommission I didn't have a feature images for this post, but found the above image from another...
Big Pic! Huge Actually
Here's a "big" project for the Life Science Centre, and let’s hear what Creative Designer from Hedley McEwan Rich Rogerson had to say about it. "When the brief came in for the Life Science Centre’s - 6 meter southside window, I needed someone I could trust and had...