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T-shirts

T-shirts

Once again, my studio lights and backgrounds were packed into the car to be set up at a location I hadn’t previously seen. The brief was to photograph as many different garments on as many different people as possible in as short a time as possible and the photographs were to be used by an [...]

On Location

On Location

For many jobs that involve photographing a large range of large products, it’s usually easier for me to pack up all of my studio equipment and travel to where the products are. There are many advantages to this: I know that I’ll have brought everything I could possibly need to complete the job, can you [...]

Clothesline

Clothesline

The image I’m currently using as the header for the blog is one that often gets questions and comments. The idea is actually very simple and straightforward and the production of the photograph was equally as simple. A shop that specialises in outdoor clothing, hiking gear and camping equipment was launching a new website and [...]


Exploded

Exploded

It’s often the case that a company with something new to promote often explains how all of the product benefits are hidden inside a beige box. The challenge is to show that it really is a new and exciting product that will be a good investment for the purchaser and that there’s more to it [...]

Cycling

Cycling

The Halfords Tour of Britain made its second visit to Chester city centre last week for round nine and I went along for a chance to play and practice at photographing sport and action. I watched the race last year but there was a torrential downpour about 10 minutes before the start and a big [...]

Underwater

Underwater

Engineering companies are always good places to photograph. There’s always lots of ‘stuff’ that makes a photographer’s job easy, big machines, big cranes, big lumps of metal. When I was contacted by a company who wanted to show their facility for pressure testing industrial valves, I knew there would be scope for something creative. The [...]


Unusual

Unusual

Over the years I’ve photographed a very wide and diverse range of things and places and a question that I’m often asked is “what’s the most unusual thing you’ve photographed?” My answer always starts by saying that within the context of the job, nothing is unusual. If a company manufactures Wear-Once Disposable Paper Knickers (yes, [...]