Posts Tagged “richmond photographer”
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…
During my trip to the annual NEC Photography Show 2015 in Birmingham I had a chat with the guys from G Technology . I do have two external hard drives: G Tech. 1tb for work photographs and a 500mb Toshiba for personal photographs etc and I also use Dropbox. I am paranoid about saving images so…
On the boundary of London’s 2012 Olympic Stadium there’s a place called Hackney Wick, East London – where you will find some great ‘arty’ backgrounds all over brick buildings. I invited Barbara, a student from France to this location as she has very ‘arty’ short hair with tattoos to match the street urban look I…
After nearly three years and 17,000 photographs, my new book has now finaly been published. A project that I was asked to undertake by the Church of England PCC for a very prominent famous and historic church which sits on Kew Green next to the river Thames and of course Kew Gardens. The book is to celebrate…
I shoot tethered when I can: camera hooked up to my laptop when shooting with light. I love to see my shot on a bigger screen and so do my clients – I just love the instant feedback, but this takes power. Power on my Mac lasts about 4 to 5 hours when shooting with…
When you photograph most subjects, getting the colours 100% accurate isn’t usually critical, and if you shoot on Auto White Balance, nine times out 10 your digital will do a pretty good job of getting the white balance roughly right, so that whites actually look white, blacks look black, and all the colours in between…
I was lucky enough to attend a workshop with world renowned fashion & celebrity photographer Frank Doorhof in west London. A luxurious hotel – Great Fosters – in Surrey, provided an awesome backdrop to an unforgettable experience with one of the best known photographers in the business. We all sipped our cups of tea while…
