Commercial Photography For Business

I work with many different types of businesses across the UK to provide commercial photography to aid the promotion of their businesses.  Sometimes a company can need just head shots of their staff for their website or professional images that show their customers how they do do business.  Commercial photography is the face of your business and customers make their decisions on using a company based on image.  Go to any website and if they don't have good photographs, it doesn't sell them well.  They don't look as professional and leaves the potential customer feeling that their service won't be as good as the company with great looking photographs.

I have a very distinctive style that has been hired by the likes of Coventry City Council, Mode Transport, G. Seller & Sons, North Warwickshire & Hinckley College for a Royal visit from HRH Prince Edward.  

My rates are within the industry guidelines but more importantly, prior to becoming a professional photographer, I have worked commercially in business at senior management level. This makes it easy to do business with me.  

Here is a link that takes you directly to the section of my website that shows you examples of my previous work.

Please get in touch with me if you know that your company needs better photography for your website and marketing materials.

The Knitters

I'm creating a photo documentary on the community around Hinckley called 'The Knitters'.  The name was used by the local football team, Hinckley United.  It's coined from the history of the towns main industry, Hosiery.  My project is under scrutiny as it's towards my FMP and contributing a large proportion towards the grading, for my degree in photography.

Here's just a couple of my favourites from the project so far.  There's plenty more shoots coming up for this but here's a midway look at how it's coming along.

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The Studio is almost finished and ready for new clients

We've been working really hard on getting the studio ready.  We've just got a small kitchen unit to build and fit and put some prints and canvasses up on the walls, then we're ready to open the doors.  We can still do portraits now as you will see in the photos below.  

I'm also including the very first photo of the studio so you can see how much hard work we've put in to making the studio a place to make fine art.  

We should also have our branding, packages and pricing structure ready this week, so we welcome any enquiries from now.

You can click on these links to see our websites (which open in a new window) for the following specialist areas; 

Fine Art Newborn Photography

Fine Art Pet Pawtraits

Fine Art Adult and Family Portraits

Fine Art Wedding Photography

Commercial and Documentary Photography on my own website.

Here's some photographs of how our studio looks now and one of how dirty and down trodden the space looked before we got our hands on it (click on each image to enlarge).


The Visitors...

...have been watching us for Thousands of Years.  They arrived in their flying machines and flattened the Earths natural habitat.  Humans were caged and kept as mice.  Life as we knew it had changed forever.  The Visitors were impossible to defeat with technology far more superior to ours.

Only messing!  The weekend is finally here, after a hard week.  I've been out on several location shoots this week. Both night and day.  The recent night shoot, I went with my mate Charlie Shelton who's just beginning to discover his love for creating photographs.  It was a good laugh and and a bit hair raising too.  We ended up at Greenhaven Woodland Burial Ground but got spooked by some unexplainable flapping around in the hedge rows.  Here's my series from this night shoot with the theme of The Visitors.

I've not been out on as many shoots as I'd like to have but let this be the beginning of a very active year with my camera.

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Retirement, what must you have experienced by the time you get there?

 All of my working life, I've heard the men and women that I've met along the way, talk about how much they're looking forward to retiring from work.  Most people plan on enjoying retirement and hope that they can save enough money to keep them for their remaining years.  For some it becomes a worry and for others they just take it in their stride.

 It's led me to think about it in a deeper way and to explore what it must feel like.  I invited some pensioners  in to my rural portrait studio to chat with them and make a touching photograph of them, one that captured the very essence of thought.  

Some of the stories were heart breaking and some were filled with a zest for life.

 One couple were due to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in The Maldives. They'd traveled there for the last 7 years but this trip was going to be so special until they learned that their daughter had cancer.  It must tear them up inside and you could see the pain in their eyes.  Another couple had experienced real physical trauma.  The husband had a stroke during love making and hasn't been the same since.  One lady lost her husband just a few years prior to retirement, scuppering all of their long made plans.

 So in essence, most people look forward to retirement but it doesn't come with out flaws. Getting there is exciting but when you finally make it, you will have experienced so much during your time here and perhaps become apprehensive once it arrives as you enter the latter stages of your life.  

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A Small and Proud Moment

I'm very proud to have been selected for one of my street photography images that has been picked to appear in an International Online Gallery.

A collaborative effort led by American Barbara Peacock is rising with increasing popularity.  They have a social platform on Facebook filled with some of the best Street Photographers from all over the World.

Of all the people to have made it in to this gallery is little old me from Hinckley in the middle of England.  It's a proud moment for me.

You can view the gallery by following this link

This is my image, click on it to enlarge.

Keeping on top of my website.

Just lately I've been snowed under.  Life can sometimes take over and keep you doing real stuff like washing up or Fighting off three animals that walk under my feet as soon as I move from the desk in our office space.  In between eating and sleeping both myself and Lisa have been slogging away with our Uni studies.  It's dominated our lives for a long time but it's given us so much knowledge about our art.  Anyway, I'm going off piste a little here.  I've neglected my website.  I'm getting enquiries for work through it, so I've been forced to get back in to and show my best work.  I've set up two new galleries which include several images from my street photography escapades in Amsterdam, London, New York and my favorite of all, Paris.  I'd be happy to hear what you think, after all feedback is the best form of learning.  

Street Photography:

In Colour

In White & Black

 

Click on each image to enlarge, then follow the links if you fancy having a look at my new galleries.  Thanks for reading.

Boxing Training Photography

There's always a lot of energy in a boxing gym.  Watching the lads really put the effort in and keep going right up until the end of a session is hard going, let alone doing what they put themselves through.  UBL 12 is just around the corner and part of Jerry's team are pushing themselves to the limits in preparation. The next show on February 21st 2015 is going to be an explosive one.

Click on the image to watch the promo video.

What is Street Photography

Recently I've been having some discussions with other like minded creatives with a Street Photography collaborative on Facebook.  What is Street Photography?  You can choose to take the linear view and run with the obvious definition or dig deeper in to your soul and find the bravery to create these images.  I can assure it's really difficult to create something that you like and the wider audience also understands your image.  What's the story?  Is there one? Does there have to be?  

You're questions will go on forever and it's a matter learning, keep shooting.  Take your time on location, keep hydrated, pub stops are some times necessary!  Those that go out and create their art in the street, enjoy it.

This was my recent shoot in London, mostly in Camden.

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