Archive for 2010
News – I’ve gone APE
I’ve been invited to join “The APE” an online gallery selling a select group of photographers work as limited edition archival prints. Check out the site here.
The Affordable Photography Emporium, or just the APE as we like to call it is a new venture set up by photographers for photographers to sell beautiful limited edition prints at an affordable price.
We thought that money shouldn’t be a hinderance to quality or choice so everything on our site is priced at very reasonable amounts.
To keep things simple all our photographers’ work is uniformly sized and priced so once you know how much you want to spend all you have to do is decide what type of photography you want to spend your money on.
We have everything from famous musical icons through to stark haunting landscapes and we’re always on the lookout for new talent too so if you don’t see something right away that really knocks your socks off then keep checking back every once in a while and you’re bound to find the perfect piece sooner or later.
Rainer Schultz & Roy Metzdorf / Portrait
Commissioned by the FT to photograph restauranteur’s Rainer Schultz and Roy Metzdorf at Rainers cosy restaurant Kurpfalz-Weinstube, for an article in the weekend edition of the FT. Both restaurateurs are hosting dinners to mark significant landmarks in their respective histories. On May 31st , Rainer Schulz will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Kurpfalz-Weinstuben in the west of the city. In the north-east, Roy Metzdorf will host a party for the 70th birthday of his father Dieter, who inspired him to open his restaurant, Weinstein, in 1993. Both were remarkably welcoming and charming. I can thoroughly recommend a visit to sample hearty German cuisine at its best.
Shooting on the Canon 5D mk II with the 24-70mm f2.8L lens and the 85mm F1.2 L. All the images were shot using a balance between available practical light and two flash heads one with CTO to match the ambient colour temperature the other was boomed and set up as daylight. The post production was realised with Adobe Lightroom. The article will be published today – Saturday 8th of May. You can read the full article here.
Architectural details
Commissioned by Wir-design for their latest campaign, to photograph architectural elements in a graphic manner. Without the buildings and places being recognisable as any one place or city for their client Hi-Solutions was my brief for this location shoot. Shooting on the Canon 5D with the 24-70mm f2.8L lens predominately at the wide end of the lens at focal lengths between 24mm and 30mm. All the images were shot using available light. The post production was achieved with a combination of Lightroom and Photoshop CS4.
UPDATE:
The whole series has now been uploaded to the Gallery or you can see them by clicking on the photo above or the link below.
Foxy – Stills shoot
I was commissioned by Biscuit TV (London) to shoot a stills campaign to go along side the new TVC for Foxy Bingo. The shoot took place in Malorca, Spain. I packed for warm weather but grabbed a waterproof on the way out just in case… All I can say is that the jacket came in very handy! we had beautiful weather on the recce day but for the two shoot days we had torrential rain. The rain didn’t dampen the mood it just meant things changed a little. The TVC was locally produced by Orange Valley Productions who had assembled a great crew who provided for both the stills and the TVC shoots.
There were a range of setups that included improvised studio setups, lighting with tungsten and HMI. As well as shooting on set with available light. Shooting on the Canon 5D mkII with the 24-70mm f2.8L lens and the beautiful 85mm f1.2 L lens for the portraits and full length shots.
The above images are straight out of the camera. The portraits were always meant to be cut outs so when the post production is a step further on I’ll upload the results.
