My clients don’t prattle, but this is my blog, so I do. And I need a catchy title to draw you in. I like doing character portraits – you can always be a bit more adventurous by telling the story through lighting, and of course you’ve always got people in front of you who emote. […]
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Some portraits of the team from BCEG, the built environment communications group. All carefully lit and retouched – but keeping it on the natural side…
read morePride in Manchester is when the centre of the city becomes, for one weekend, taken over by the LGBT community. It’s a great place to find a concentration of interesting and unusual looks and faces. On Saturday I took a small softbox and a portrait lens into town, and with the help of assistant Ben […]
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Four Legs Good A good amount of what I do is photographing human beings, and trying to shape light to bring out their best features. This project was about seeing how animal’s heads react to the same treatment – seeing if they look any more human… These are all animals from Wythenshawe Community Farm in […]
read morePortraits for Anthemis A few headshots for London-based fintech firm Anthemis. They strike the right tone of familiarity and respectability I think. There’s a Five Guys around the corner too. Shot on the Pentax 645z at either 90mm or 150mm. The 90mm lens does the nicer, sharper pictures and is a lovely […]
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Oh No, It Isn’t! Panto: it’s great, because it’s fundamentally, cheerfully silly. The lack of pretence is a relief. It must be the least uptight form of entertainment on the planet, and that’s not an easy mark to hit. These are cast members from the recent production of Cinderella at the Manchester Opera House. […]
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An affordable medium format camera, that behaves like a big DLSR. Affordable is a matter of perspective of course. You can buy three Canon 5d3 bodies for the cost of the Pentax. But until the Pentax came along, there was no half way house, functionally or financially, between the 35mm formats and the majesty of […]
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After spotting a portrait of pre-war prime minister Neville Chamberlain, I noticed how different the approach to portraits once was. His face was very nearly full to camera but with a flattering high angle. Most interestingly the eye line looked off into the distance, an affectation of the time – today subjects always expect to […]
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Thea Sheppard, TV presenter, photographed on location in Great John Street Hotel in Central Manchester – and Matt Arnold from Thrive Fitness, photographed at RX Gym in South Manchester. Different lighting styles for two very different professions.
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