Model Photo-Shoot
She modelled many times in her younger years and has now decide to get back into it and wanted to concentrate on an indoor studio look and RDA Photography was only too happy to help out. So for this shoot we had one hour. My favourite go-to light set-up is the overhead beauty dish…
Painting Portraits
Painting Portraits – I just completed an edit of a portrait I did recently at my local church in Kew. It was taken using the Lastolite Urban Collapsable background. I have been working on a project for 19 months now using the background but for this portrait I wanted a classic painting look so I…
1000 days on the River Kwai
1000 Days: RDA Photography had the privilege of being commissioned to take some promotional images for publishers ‘Pen & Sword’ of two sisters. Seen here holding their recently released book. Pat and Jean helped bring their late Father Colonel Owtram’s secret diary of his time as a WWII POW to print. After being captured in…
Go Pro Hero 4 Silver: Accident
Accident: Go Pro Hero 4 Silver – A action cam that I always have with me, it’s perfect for all my ‘Behind The Scenes’ footage. So whilst on a break… to the States – it had a small accident… well a big accident. After inserting the SD Card I put the Go Pro Hero 4 Silver…
Mobile studio
Mobile Studio: Hey guys, thought I would post a picture I took recently on my iPhone. I was astounded by the interest on Instagram after Tethertools added it to their feed (nearly 2k hearts) – people just love seeing camera gear and how you use it. For this project, I wanted to capture the complete…
Kew Risque
Successful photo-shoots with Raminta a few months ago led to another, this time with a little twist of Kew Risqué. We moved on to Kew green then onto the amazing cottages towards the river. This was a different look with some rather interesting outfits for ‘Kew Risque’ – all shot with off camera flash to let the…
Chiswick Bridge Photo Shoot
Chiswick Bridge has just recently been refurbished, originally built in 1933 and situated at the finish line to the famous Oxford Cambridge Boat Race. NOW the location for RDA Photography for a photo-shoot with Raminta, a model originally from Lithuania but now based in London. Raminta was very prepared for the shoot bringing an assortment of…
The Photography Show
Hey guys, been a busy few days up at the NEC Birmingham for the annual conference trade show that is ‘The Photography Show 2016’. If you like to take a picture (who doesn’t) then that’s where you need to be! The biggest of it’s kind in the UK, the show welcomes 30,000 visitors from enthusiasts to…
Kew photo shoot
Kew photo shoot: RDA PHOTOGRAPHY had an empty Tuesday and advertised on Facebook for a lucky follower to take up an opportunity to have some portfolio images taken. Nancy from Italy took this offer and arrived bright and early, a newcomer to the game of ‘fashion shoots’ but very eager to learn and take instruction – like a natural. It turned…
Strike a pose
Strike a pose – Thinking about updating your portfolio? Karishma Patel chose RDA PHOTOGRAPHY to update her portfolio and what better place to do this than in a small but very scenic village called Kew which nestles on the banks of the river Thames and only 8 miles from the centre of London. I usually…
Scott Kelby photo-walk
Hey guys – just got back from my first ever photo-walk and of course it had to be the Scott Kelby photo-walk, in fact it was ‘The Scott Kelby Worldwide 8th Photo-Walk‘. What’s a photo-walk I hear you ask? Well, it’s a where a bunch of photographers get together and shoot and walk generally around towns and…
Paris with love
I was fortunate to travel to Paris recently to test out my new Sony A7 on assignment. This was my second trip to Paris and with the Sony mirrorless system, my bag was lighter which for city shoots I was very thankful for, actually that was one of many reasons for my switch from Nikon to Sony….