BBMB - Timothy West Portraits
Customer Testimonial and Peer Recognition - What Could be Better?
Great start to the day as this popped up in my email. A shot taken for the Hybrid MMA Academy in Marple as the talented Richard Boyd is refreshing their website. Brilliant to not only get great customer feedback but also peer recognition from some of the best international editors around at Leica Fotografie International.
Really enjoyable to combine both my advertising and documentary photography expertise on an assignment for a client.
I was also very impressed by how good the Leica M10-R camera performed and how perfect this camera was for what I wanted to achieve in the conditions that were available.
#advertisingphotography #documentaryphotography #editorialphotography
Analogue Photography Examples
#FilmPhotographyDay - April 12th
To celebrate film photography day, I thought I’d post some examples of the work I used to shoot regularly on film before I switched to digital early in the early 2000’s.
My main analogue cameras for all of my industrial and commercial photography were the medium format Mamiya RZ6x7 and the Sinar P2 monorail camera.
The Mamiya used 120 roll film and gave you 10 shots of 6cm x 7cm per roll. The Sinar used both 5'“x4” and 10”x8” sheet film, self loaded in double dark slides which gave you two sheets of film per slide.
I only ever used the 35mm format when the client needed a slide show using projectors or if the assignment needed more flexibility as the shot above on The Prince of Wales Bridge illustrates.
Shooting film gave me a great education and grounding in professional photography, especially in key areas of lighting and understanding dynamic range. Some films were considered good and others not so good, all part of being a pro photographer to have a knowledge of the different types of film to use.
The films I mostly used were made by Kodak and Fuji, and nearly all of the time they were transparency or slide films as opposed to negatives. It was critical to get the exposure accurate to within 1/3 of a stop in exposure for the scene or else you would lose detail in shadows or highlights.
If you’d like some mentoring on shooting film, by all means get in touch via my contact page.
#filmphoto #filmphotography
Analogue Film Archiving and Scanning
Finally getting round to organising my analogue archive properly after all my spare transparencies have been gathering dust in numerous cardboard boxes and old lab job bags.
I'm giving them a new home in nice Secol pocket sleeves that will live in Kenro folders and slip cases. I've decided to create digital contact sheets from each page by shooting each sheet on my old light box and even brought my old Nikon D3 out of semi-retirement to do the job. Raw files, 1/40th @ f8 with a base ISO of 200 and processed in CaptureOne. A bit contrasty but easily rectified in C1.
Overall a very therapeutic, long-term project, helped along the way with some weekly scanning of certain images that float my boat. This is Julie Goodyear and Danielle Nicholls from the pantomime, Snow White, circa Y2K.
What Camera Bag Should I Buy?
in Camera Bags
Naturally that will depend on the type of camera you want to put in there, the lenses and accessories you want to carry with you and where you are going to be going with it. For example, if like me, you want to take a single camera body and 3-4 prime lenses or a couple of smaller zooms and go hiking around a city or in the hills, then I’d recommend a backpack.
Read More360° Spin Photography
Good to be back in the studio yesterday after the Christmas break. Interesting to do some pack shot and 360° Spin tests for a global workwear and PPE manufacturer. I haven't used my Nikon Intervalometer for a while and the rotating turntable worked really well. You'll have to forgive my own well worn PPE shoes though!
Read MoreA Hoverboard at Christmas
That's me finished for Christmas, the last job turned around in just over an hour including product drop-off by the customer, three different angles shot, digital processing, proofs delivered to the clients phone whilst he enjoyed a walk around the local beauty spot at Dove Stone Reservoir, collection of his product and digital delivery of his files via email whilst he drove back to the office. Pretty good for two days before Christmas and the first time I've shot a hoverboard!
All the best to everyone for Christmas and the New Year.
#packshot #productphotography #studiophotography #hoverboard
Brass and Glass Featured in The Societies of Photographers Magazine
Many thanks to Colin Jones, Mike McNamee and the rest of the team at The Societies of Photographers for featuring my social documentary project, Brass and Glass commemorating 165 years of existence for my local brass band, The Boarshurst silver Band. Great work guys!
https://www.philmelia.co.uk/brassandglass
https://www.blurb.com/b/7075314-brass-and-glass
#portraitphotography #advertisingphotography #documentaryphotography #editorialphotography #leicacamera #manchester #magazinefeature
Case Studies - Industrial Photography Specialist
Another one of my images for the great team at Airmatic - Specialist Ductwork and Extraction systems for Hazardous Environments. Taken to illustrate their amazing odour extraction system install at Suez waste facility in Knowsley. I always enjoy the challenge of highlighting my clients products in relation to their working environment, essential for all case study photography.
#industrialphotography #industrialmetal #ductwork #engineeringuk #wastemanagement #photography
Richard Boyd - Red Flame Marketing
Business Portraits Using Available Light
Great to have a 'Wow' moment when I'm shooting portraits and recognise a location that gives fantastic natural lighting that would normally only be achievable by adding my own lighting to the scene.
Portrait of Richard Boyd - Red Flame Marketing
#portraitphotography #corporatephotography #photography#manchesterbusiness