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Friday Photo: Long Distance Portraiture
Long Distance Portraiture After last week's close-up portrait I thought I'd go to the other end with this week. So today's Friday Photo is about portraiture and the fact that, for me, it really isn't necessary to show someone's face in a photo to call it...

Friday Photo: Personal Portraiture
Personal Portraiture Today's Friday Photo is really about mood and composition, and the extra something that sparks with personal portraiture. I'm not a massive fan of David Bailey's work. I don't find it that interesting unless he's doing really personal work. I...

Relaxed Wedding Photography
Relaxed Wedding Photography Now I've shot weddings for wedding photographers before, and I've shot weddings for lecturers before. But this was the first time I've shot a wedding for two wedding photographers marrying each other, who also teach photography. By all...

Friday Photo: A Beautiful Commotion
MC Motors Wedding Photography I suppose the things that immediately strike me about this photo are, first, the joy of shooting with a large depth of field (this was shot on f11), and secondly just the joy of serendipity. By shooting like this you're able to capture...

Friday Photo: Street Photography in Istanbul
8 Street Photography in Istanbul Hello. I know I haven't posted a Friday Photo for a while. That is remiss of me and for that I can only apologise. Moving house and being battered by a man-flu virus of near Biblical proportions is no excuse. (It is a bit of an...

London Restaurant Wedding
London Restaurant Wedding Today's wedding blog is a brilliantly relaxed Anglo-Indian wedding in the heart of London, from Archway to Camden Town Hall to Goodge Street, intimate and stylish and completely unpretentious. My own personal wife and I have been out for...

Immodesty Blaize Wedding Shot | Friday Photo
Last weekend I had the huge honour of photographing the marriage of the extraordinary Immodesty Blaize to her impossibly charming husband, Gregory, underneath cloudless Monte Carlo skies. As you can imagine there are some spectacular images -- and I will feature...

Amazing Festival Wedding
What do you start with this amazing festival wedding? And where do you end? This wedding had it all. But when I say that I'm not talking about all the trappings, the big white dresses and country mansions with its rolling grounds and gothic finials. I'm talking...

Asian Documentary Wedding Photography, Pt2
Asian Documentary Wedding Photography So as promised here is the second of part of my recent three day Asian wedding. This second blog contains days two and three. Namely, the civil service, the Nikkah (the religious service) and the promenade along the seafront on...

Humour in Wedding Photography: Friday Photo
Humour in Wedding Photography Today's Friday Photo (on a Monday) comes to you sponsored by the superior caffeine hit delivered by my new DeLonghi Scultura Espresso Coffee Maker (Black). Even my internal organs feel jittery. In fact, if my chest could somehow...

Life is Messy: Friday Photo
The message of this blog post is essentially, life is messy, photos can be messy too. There's a lot of information in this shot, a lot to take in. It could be a portrait of the young blonde girl at its centre, or it could be a detail shot shot during the wedding...

Asian Documentary Wedding Photography, Pt1
ASIAN DOCUMENTARY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY, PT 1 This was my first taste of a full three day Asian wedding, and what is basically a riot of colour and noise and food and people and places. Personally it was a beautiful experience and insight into another culture in a way...

MC Motors Wedding | Ally and Loz
MC Motors Wedding It's been some time now since I've blogged a wedding, which is remiss of me I know. Luckily, the blogs haven't dried up because the weddings have dried up -- I'm actually busier than ever (and which on Tuesday morning included photographing the...

Shoot Everything: Friday Photo
So today I'm going to bang on about the importance of shooting everything. We all have a tendency to self censor, to paint the most flattering pictures of ourselves and pretend that's who we really are. That we're never grumpy, or lazy, or sitting here writing this...

Fashion Wedding Photography & Enigma: Friday Photo
Fashion Wedding Photography Fashion photography is a much maligned mode within photography for reasons that I've never really quite understood. The history of photography is peppered with unhappy photographers that have taken this kind of work under duress to pay the...

Humans in the Abstract: Friday Photo
Humans in the Abstract So I thought I'd go with something a little abstract this week. If last week's photo had a touch of Lee Friedlander's America by Car about it, today's touchstone is Stephen Shore. What I like about this image is that there are so many lines in...

This Is Not Wedding Photography: Postcards From a Wedding Day
Postcards From a Wedding Day First off I'm not here to put down wedding photography. Wedding photography is very often very beautiful. But there does tend to be a shorthand. Whether it's posing an sombre looking miniature couple amid massive Red Fir trees or...

Composition and Character: Friday Photo
Honestly, I could have chosen any one of two dozen images from last week's wedding for today's Friday Photo (and may still do that in the future) but this one just edges it for me right now. Tomorrow it might be different. These things mean different things to you...

















