The Volvo C30 shoot was a great experience – a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. It was also typical of how shoots have evolved since photography went digital. These days you often go to locations just to shoot a backplate, with the object – or vehicle in this case – added […]
Continue Reading —›Bentley was one of those dream jobs that come round every so often. You do the shoot, the client likes it; you do another, their client likes it. The shoot leads to other jobs and the spin off can last several years. As I say, a dream job. With the launch of the Contintental GT […]
Continue Reading —›The Ferrari job is pure test piece, pure opportunist. Hobbyist. I did it in earlier in the year to coincide with the start of the Formula 1 season. It was an idea I’d had for a while: play around with a Ferrari on a backplate, shot on another job. Learn from it. Use it. Maybe […]
Continue Reading —›The Isuzu shoot is one of my recent jobs. A month or so ago in early summer. The brief was tough trucks for tough times. Driven by tough guys who chew gum and get their hands dirty. So I wanted to capture a scene that was mean, moody and brittle. The appalling rain and flooding […]
Continue Reading —›I like having fun with landscapes; with the natural world you can pull it, merge it and reshape it. Make it hyper-real and more beautiful or more sombre than it actually is. With idealised, fabricated landscapes you can throw in mundane objects and create your own tough, forbidding images. Very scifi. Fun to play with. […]
Continue Reading —›I think of myself as a photographer, not a writer – and I’m certainly not an active blogger. So I’ve had to ponder long and hard about my new role as a photographer/blogger. But I reckoned that with over 20 years of shoots – mainly automotive – under my belt, I wanted to pull some […]
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