I wanted to do a black and white shoot in order to test my ideas, lighting, composition, etc for the parallel world in my film, MindTwist. Charlotte Howard will be in the film, and is doing costume and makeup for it, so she seemed an … Read More →
Category Archives: Portrait
headshots – Derek Fowlds
I’ve taken headshots for several of the actors I know but recently I was asked to take headshots for an actor that you probably know! Derek Fowlds is an actor I’ve admired since way back when he was Bernard in “Yes, Minister”, so it was … Read More →
photo shoot – Katie in the cafe
Katie works at the cafe where I usually have lunch. I’ve been wanting to photograph her for ages because she is very pretty :) Finally we managed to work out a time and we did the photo session in the cafe after closing (I had … Read More →
Laura and Aida – photo shoot
Laura enjoyed our last photo session and she was fun to work with so when she asked to do another I was happy to say “yes”. This time she brought Aida, another Spanish girl living in Bristol, and we did lots of shots of the … Read More →
Laura and Mayte – photo shoot
During the Jane Austen Festival I met Laura, a lovely Spanish girl currently living in England but soon to move to warmer climes. She looks great, likes being a model and is interested in being a photographer so we arranged to meet up for a … Read More →
Jane Taylor – photo shoot
Last Saturday I got to do a photo shoot with singer/songwriter Jane Taylor, who is preparing for the full launch of her second album, Compass (which is very good). We used most of the rooms in her house in Bristol, as well as her small … Read More →
Hang drum busker in Bath
I was practicing shooting video yesterday, mainly of buskers, when I came upon this girl in front of the Abbey. She said she’s fairly new to the instrument but it still sounded lovely. I put a bit of the video on YouTube.
photo retouching – before and after
I thought it might be useful for people to see what sort of retouching I do to my photos. Of course, what I do and how much I do varies drastically depending on the type of image and its use – a fashion shot gets … Read More →