Dance Lesson By Nikki Santilli I had the pleasure of popping by Camden Studios last week to capture the delightful Nikki Santilli teaching Jazz legend Ray Gelato some dance steps, to accompany his wonderful tunes. It’s fun to shoot dance photos and the key is to capture the very moment they do those steps correctly. … Read More
Photographing Venues in the Best Possible Light It’s so important to make sure when you photograph an interior space, that the lighting is as natural as possible. In this sense I refer to the ‘mood’ that comes across in the photos, rather than natural light, in terms of daylight or sunshine. Photographing Travel and Leisure … Read More
Part of our ongoing Travel and Leisure Photography commission for Haven Holidays, I got to travel to North Wales. The holiday park here, not far from Snowdonia National Park, has had a brand new refurbishment, with a new Dragon Lakes Adventure Village, Dragons Lake play area for the children and a new Coast House bar … Read More
Travel and Leisure Photography that makes you think you’re outside the UK. When you think of a dreamy location for a holiday, you don’t always consider the UK do you? Yet we have so many gorgeous spots across the United Kingdom that many people don’t even know exist! I was so fortunate to get to … Read More
As part of a recent travel and leisure photography assignment for Haven Holidays, as well as following the standard shot list, which was required for their website and holiday brochures, I was also asked to capture ‘anything else that looks great’! What a fab request from a client – even better request when you realise … Read More
Well at present I am on the road, doing several weeks worth of work for a client, who I can’t name. I also can’t publish any of the work as it’s all under review and so I’ll do that when all the brochures and website images have been published by the client. In the meantime, … Read More
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of being taken to Dennis Severs House, 18 Folgate Street, in Spitalfields, one of my favourite areas of London, to see their Christmas installation. I returned to shoot the house in January (check out my other blog piece on this) but I always wanted to shoot … Read More
This was a full day of shooting for Baxterstorey, which involved visiting a variety of different sites to capture shots of their new spaces, food and drink and some street style photos in the area they were hoping to win a tender for. Like a lot of these types of shoots, having flexible photography skills … Read More
I came across the stunning Stag Gentlemans Hair Salon in Mill Hill Broadway on recommendation from a friend and in the end used the owner/barber Josh (left) and barber Ryan as models in the shoot, which worked out really well. When you have a stunning location like this, great looking and funky models and the … Read More
The same day that we shot for Worldpay, we drove to The Scullery kitchenware shop in Muswell Hill for part two of the My Business Hub photography shoot. This time we had full use of the empty shop as we planned the shoot to start after it closed to customers and all the people in … Read More
Worldpay were planning to launch a new all-in-one payment system and needed images to support the marketing of this new product. They required photos to use on an email marketing campaign and their website so the Marketing Manager approached me and explained that prior to this shoot, most of the photos they’d used before came … Read More