I need 1/1600th Flash sync ! Why ? because I like to have choice when I’m shooting. The 3x images above are actually a screen grab from Capture One. So this is before any retouching, honestly. We always strive to … Continue reading
Each year I shoot a rugby calendar called ‘Rugby’s Finest’ This is possibly the most fun I have on a shoot all year. The players are a fantastic bunch of people, James Haskell pictured above has a wicked sense of … Continue reading
A couple of months ago I was having lunch with a great friend of mine, the excellent photographer Jim Marks. During lunch he asked the question: “Do you want to see what I’ve been shooting that glasses campaign with?” … Continue reading
I’ve been using a calibrated workspace since around 2000 when I first started seriously working with Photoshop. Whilst the whole subject is a bit boring, it’s ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL for professional work. For those of you that grew up shooting film, it’s … Continue reading
A few years ago I had the pleasure of photographing TV presenter Jasmine Harman for a magazine cover. She is a delight in every possible sense, we got along very well and have remained in contact ever since. So it … Continue reading
I have always had a tilt/shift camera or lens in my arsenal of equipment. This started with portraits on 5×4″ film then I had a Hasselblad Flexbody, now it’s the Schneider Kreuznach lens TS 120mm for my Phase System. Phase … Continue reading
Here’s a quick behind the scenes look at a recent Mens Fashion shoot test, I was also testing the new Capture One plugin that lets me control my lights from the C1 software.
One of my clients Hardy Amies of Saville Row, asked me to light a fashion show for London Fashion Week. This isn’t the sort of thing I normally do, but it was great fun. The brief was to give the … Continue reading
Mark Wernham was the last photographer I interviewed and filmed for the ‘SanDisk Extreme Team’ videos. It was great meeting Mark and we have become good friends, he must have one of the most desirable jobs in motor sports photography. … Continue reading
After filming Dominique Daher I travelled further east to shoot, Marcel Lammerhirt another great extreme sports shooter, check out his video. I was very impressed with Marcel’s openness, he’s also a great guy:
Like many Photographers, I’ve started to shoot video in addition to stills. One of the things I love about this job is getting to meet some amazing people, check out this video I shot for SanDisk on the fantastic photographer … Continue reading
Every year I shoot a calendar called Rugby’s Finest. This is a collaboration amongst myself, Andi Peters (Yes the TV presenter) and Nick Kennedy (Awesome London Irish Player) We are very very particular as to whom we invite to be … Continue reading
I’ve been using Phase One digital backs on medium camera since 2005 when I first went digital. I’d been waiting for PhaseOne to bring out some Leaf shutter lenses, as soon as they did I got rid of my old … Continue reading
It’s no secret that I’ve been using Elinchrom lighting from the beginning of my career. We also often hire Profoto when travelling long distances and it becomes impractical to fly with all my own kit. Here’s a quick video and … Continue reading
Peter Eastway a great landscape photographer and writer, interviewed me earlier in the year for Better Photography magazine. At the time I didn’t think that much of it, but he ran a six page feature on me and used one … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the D300s, Nikon announced the D3s, It’s great to see Canon and Nikon offering very different products. Thereby giving photographers choice for their particular style or genre. Here’s a short list of links to this … Continue reading
Now we’re talking, PhaseOne (Crazy but Excellent Danish Company) today announced a new camera (looks like a serious revision) and most importantly a partnership with Schneider Kreuznach a name famous for the highest quality optics. The big news is we … Continue reading
Here’s a brief behind the scenes video from a recent shoot here in London. We mixed Sunlight and Flash, unusually for London there was almost too much Daylight! Fortunately we were able to get enough power out of our Elinchroms … Continue reading
This is how we created a large group shot for the BBC London. All the images were shot on the actual set of the ‘Casualty Series’
This is my friend Danny, ladies can you please help him?
Here’s a whole days unedited dance shoot with music.
What do you do when the weather goes really crap? Have a look at this to see how we dealt with it.
Over 400 unedited images from 1 days shooting combined with music.
Edit of Dance Images.
Selection of Portrait/lifestyle images with music. I just love shooting.
Mens Health restaurant shoot, making many people from a few.
Here’s a quick clip about best practise. Kinda Boring but very important. This is for all the photographers I used to assist.
Set Goals Be organised Never Assume ! (best way to avoid mistakes) Use tennis balls on light stands to stop marking floors. Just cut them open with a knife. Buy a polarising filter, if you only use one filter make … Continue reading
Trawling the net over the years has given me great inspiration and excellent information. Now it’s my turn to share knowledge. The idea for this floated through my head at some point after one sake too many with Chase Jarvis … Continue reading
