MAGAZINE / EDITORIAL

This type of photography I love!

You may have a minute to photograph someone, you may have an hour.

Sometimes the best shots come from “sorry I have a meeting to go to and can only give you five minutes to photograph me”.

You’ve just walked through the door, never seen the office before, which light source is best, no time for a studio umbrella, where’s the background, if I chuck that area out of focus, it’s colourful but quite abstract, won’t detract from the subject but will enhance the overall pic with it’s shapes and colours.

Put them there with light from the window and maybe a reflector on the other side for fill, perhaps a little fill in flash on some for a harder image. “You’ve got enough shots of me now have’nt you? It’s only for an editorial piece in the magazine”. And they're gone leaving you to sit down and replay your digital images ( how did our nerves survive before digital cut down the waiting process to view those images!)

Or perhaps you are allowed to discuss the shoot over the phone, “I come from up North, can’t find a decent pickled egg down here”, if I found some you liked would you mind being photographed eating them, “nah”. Waitrose do a pickled egg that people from up North will call passable in case anyone is interested. So we set up the studio light, sat him on a sofa with forkful of egg and jar in his hands, magazine beside him, I think he finished the entire jarful by the time we had finished shooting. Just time to take a few more different photos of him against a big window, change the camera setting to tungsten, gel a Redhead to daylight and bathe everything in blue apart from his face, lovely.

I'm a London based photographer with over 20 years experience and I'm available for location shoots for your magazine or editorial photography.

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