Portraits at home or in the office
Whether you’re back in the office or still working from home, it’s always a good time to update your professional portrait to something shiny and new. Get in touch to arrange your professional portrait picture and make sure you look your sharpest when people see your online presence.
Shoot it as you see it
Sometimes I’m drawn to a subject in a moment and get a great image. Combine this with great documentary portrait skills and you get great event photography. I bring both of these skill sets onto any event that I cover; so, if you have one planned, get me to cover it for you. One less thing to worry about.
Bumble Bees
Macro Photography with still subjects is tricky, with only a very shallow focus area, you have to be very precise to get what you want in focus; but with a moving subject, this becomes even harder. You need to take a lot of images in order to get the shot that you want; but when you have it, it is supremely satisfying.
The Magic of Early Summer
Since the only place I can take photographs at the moment is outdoors, that has meant a lot of photographing flowers instead of people. Just recently I have been able to spend a lot of time doing this as I continue to wait for restrictions to ease and events to be possible again. This has had unexpected benefit, which is to make me think about technical aspects of taking and processing images to get the best out of them; so when those events start up again, I will once again be raring to go, and better than ever.
MACRO LENS PHOTOGRAPHY FOR JUNE (PART 3)
Even used a little further away from the subject, a macro lens will give you great separation of the subject from the background, but getting in really close can draw your eye to extraordinary details in nature (or anything else) that we might other wise not notice.
Macro Lens Photography for June (Part 2)
A macro lens on your camera allows you to get much nearer your subject than most regular lenses; the result of being so close is that you can only focus on a very narrow plane, so you have to make your choices very carefully. There is a lot of trial and error with this kind of work, but when it works the results are hugely satisfying
Macro Lens Photography for June (Part 1)
Give me sunshine, a macro lens and plant-life and I’ll be happy for hours. DOF is so shallow that you have to pick your focus point really carefully; lots of trial and error creating these, but the results can be really beautiful, and otherworldly.
Art on the South Coast
A recent trip to Hastings and Bexhill exposed me to some thrilling and vibrant street art. Just had to share these images that were some of my favourites.
At last; a brighter future?
There’s been a lot of hopeful headlines this week concerning the coming Coronavirus vaccine and how effective it is. Perhaps it will even be widely available enough for all of us to have received it by the spring of next year, and then finally we can start getting our professional lives back on an even keel.
I’m sure that all you event managers and conference organisers cannot wait to get back to business as usual. So if you are beginning to dare to plan for your events next year, make sure that you get in touch to be sure that you get the best photographs of your events in 2021; the year of recovery.
Usually this is busy time . . .
Autumn has traditionally been my peak conference and event season in the run up to the end of the year. I’ve been lucky enough to cover some fascinating events in previous autumns; but work in this year, already ravaged by the first lockdown and continued restrictions over the summer months, has now been definitively ended by the latest lockdown. Normality for those of us who work around events and conferences seems further away than ever. We continue to look forward to a future time when we are once again allowed to carry out normal activities without restrictions; and when we can, and if you want to get this kind of coverage from your event get in touch with me to discuss your needs. I’ll be eagerly waiting for you to get in touch . . .
