I tend to come back from a Street Photography shoot with a few good images and today's in London was no different. I'm quite happy with his image and is by far my favourite from about 4-5 images that are strong enough to be considered for my portfolio. What do you think to this one? Feel free to give me some crit.
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Over a year ago I created a body of photographic work that sent me around the Country to a variety of football grounds. I followed Manchester City to Wembley to document their fans journey to the FA Cup with Wigan. I drove up to Manchester to visit the National Football Museum and Manchester United. I also spent an afternoon in the back rooms of Macclesfield Town FC as well as an entire week with Barwell Football Club in Leicestershire. During the project I also spent many rainy Sundays pitch side with my camera at several Sunday Football pitches. This movie is a compilation of my work set against the background music from Wakes, latest track featuring the Wealdstone Raider.
I'm a sucker for night landscapes, I just love to see the vibrancy of the night in colour and am able to find the beauty in most places. I especially love it on a clear night when you can see all of the stars so clearly. I always like to ground every night landscape with some of the Earth's surface and human dwellings to give the image a sense of scale.
Here's one I created in Burbage, England last night.
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I've been doing a lot of research recently on many of the great landscape photographers around the World and especially those that have used a 5x4 large format plate camera. This has led me to pick up one and get outside in the freezing outdoors and make some great landscapes too.
I'm using a Wista which is made in Japan. Believe me, at first it's a complicated bit of kit but once you've shot a few with it, it feels like you're stepping back in time but can get to grips with it quite easily.
The background on my site has always been bright white making everything stand out way too much and was difficult to view the pages. So I've adjusted the background colour in my logo and matched it with an easy on the eye grey colour.
I feel it's easier to browse my site now, also I've switched the menu's around to promote my personal work. I find those images much more interesting to view than my commercial work. Not because I think there's anything wrong with my commercial work. I'm sure every photographer would agree that when shooting your own work, it creates a different feeling. One that makes you feel free with total creativity. To me it makes sense to promote my personal work first because it's that style that has helped me to find clients.
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So over the past few years, I've been documenting many different aspects of Hinckley through Hinckley Photographed. During the last 12 Months, I've been to many of the Town's events and captured the People as well as many of the landscapes. I'm adding a selection of images of the people that I've photographed in 2014. 2015 will be the year it really kicks off and changes Hinckley Photographed. We're talking with an organisation about funding and will hopefully be taking Hinckley Photographed to a completely different level.
Stay tuned.
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On my recent visit to Paris, I wanted to capture the colourful essence of Paris. This doesn't mean my images are in colour. Some of them are but some of them aint!
It's all about the people.
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Thanks for looking.
So I created my very first time lapse movie. I made a series of around 600 images using my tripod and a timer release. Then I attached them together using some expensive software and added some music. The music believe it or not, was the hardest bit. I needed 30 seconds of dramatic music that I could find royalty free. Well, here it is, I hope you enjoy it. This is not where it ends. I'll be creating a much larger time lapse movie over the coming 12 months.
On Saturday, Lisa and I did the photography for a really nice couple called Kerry & David from Redditch. They put their trust in us to produce their wedding photography and we feel like we can truly pay them the same respect by sharing a beautiful moment.
This image is seconds after Kerry joined David at the altar. It was very emotional for them both. Kerry looked stunning in her beautiful dress and it really shows that David thought so too.
I love to capture the emotion of special moments like these, especially ones that are so life changing as tying the knot.
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This is one image from 1500 I captured at a recent wedding but I don't think the bride will love it as much as I do. The bride has recently lost her Father who should have been giving her away. She arrived at the Church quite emotionally and as you can see in this strong image, she's reflecting very deeply. I love the sense of emotion in the image and it helps to tell a story of the day. There is a much deeper story to what unfolded throughout the day, which I won't go in to but I absolutely had to share this image. I'm really proud to have captured such emotion within a photograph.
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We're looking for some information on different clubs in and around Hinckley for a large photographic project. Do you know of any? Please send us a message at Hinckley Photographed.
You can also send me a message via my website here. or comment beneath this post.
We're also looking for groups of people that make Hinckley what it is and places where the fun is at.
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