Busy shooting lots of people in the face!

What i’ve been doing for the last four weeks

Location Headshots

Leicester Urban Headshots!

Last week it was urban headshot time.

Not everyone wants a studio looking headshot, but everyone needs a quality headshot to stop people scrolling past on platforms such as LinkedIn!

Rachael from insurance brokers Morgan Betts & Co is this person.

During the Zoom consultation the week before we discussed various options and locations to achieve the desired results. I took my full mobile studio which included numerous backdrops, studio flash, softboxes etc.

All of the final images however used nothing more than natural light and a hand held reflector!!

We were blessed with an overcast day, which meant no harsh shadows on the face. I used the reflector to bounce a little light back to help create perfect even lighting across Rachael’s face.

Would you have your next headshot outdoors? or would you prefer the studio/indoor environment?

Drop me an email or give me a call for more information.

What's been happening??!

So, It’s October.

Following the UK’s COVID-19 Lockdown, things went a little quiet for me. I did 4 jobs in 3 months. But thats ok, I manajed to home school Callie, my 7yr old Daughter.

Around August things started to pick up. In fact, this August was best in 4yrs!. Sometimes 3 shoots a day.

These jobs ranged from clothing shoots, headshots for individuals & businesses, 4k video confrencing for a court trial in Hong Kong (yes, really!), enviromental portraits and some product work

I’ve updated my website with a few new images, below are a few.

Inside Stories - Leicestershire’s hidden lockdown

Leicester’s Hidden Lockdown - Photo Exhibition

Last Job Before UK Lockdown - Coronavirus

My last job before Coronavirus caused the UK to go into Lockdown

A blog about a vlog... ;-)

I did a vlog, now a blog about a vlog... ;-)

Professional Photographers Workflow

If you’re interested in what happens after a photoshoot, the stuff you don’t see… this is the video to watch!

In all seriousness, this stuff behind the scenes is mega important.

I had a phone call with a family member who was photographing a friends wedding last year.. I was also photographing a wedding. On a break I checked my phone and saw 5 missed calls from said family member. I called him back and he asked me a question…

“I changed lens towards the end of the ceremony, now when I look at my images I can’t find anything before the ceremony…”

My question back was “have you changed out the memory card for a fresh one??” he had not. So he did, and I arranged to meet up with him the following day.

Turns out he’d been victim to a fake memory card, which had corrupted and was overwriting old images when the card became full. So the whole bride prep and 90% of the ceremony was now gone forever.

The message here is he’s not a professional, and he didn’t have a professional camera.. a camera that has two memory cards. He put the images he had on his 8yr old laptop, and he was done.

This is very different to what myself and other professional photographers do.