I doubt there are many girls amongst us who don’t appreciate a beautiful pair of Manolo Blahniks .. When it comes to spectacularly glamorous footwear most of us tend to go weak-kneed. Imagine my delight therefore when this last weekend I had the opportunity to visit and photograph a delicious exhibition of shoe-focused art, staged [...]
Archive for the ‘Business photography’ Category
November 19th, 2010
As you might expect, during the set up of any photo shoot I’ll fire a few shots off before we get started “proper”, and bizarrely I often find they’re amongst my favourites. I guess it’s because everyone involved is more relaxed, maybe not thinking too hard about it and it’s just happening very naturally … [...]
October 8th, 2010
Certain assignments I find difficult to categorise as “work” .. and this week’s shoot for the lovely Frances Shippey of The Bag Shop (Steep Hill, Lincoln) was no exception. If beautiful handbags are your thing, or you’re in the market for a few stunning Christmas presents then The Bag Shop is definitely worth a visit [...]
August 19th, 2010
I had the great pleasure of visiting CK Polymers on Monday for a break away from my normal brief; this was an opportunity for me to view and shoot their operation at Brookenby, outside Binbrook in Lincolnshire. Plastics recycling is of course a growth industry, and the slickness of the operation at CK Polymers demonstrated [...]
August 6th, 2010
Very often the argument for and against photo retouching rears it’s head and it’s never more fiercely contended than when it’s concerning portrait shots. This has often confused me. Why, I wonder, when someone pays a photographer would they want images that were untouched, displaying the dark circles under the eyes and the odd blemish [...]
August 5th, 2010
It was my pleasure to photograph the team at Driver Hire Lincoln recently, not least because it presented all five feet four of me the challenge of photographing three men well over six foot at close range without having to point my lens in an upward direction .. (my two step ladder has since become [...]
