MANOR Magazine: New York Photostory
You may recognise this image from a previous post. As I write the Leica that took the shot is about to return from Germany, it didn't fare too well when I took a tumble the following day so it is [...]
The Glamour of Motorcycle Photography
Yesterday's shoot was undertaken below the M5 deck as it passes between Avonmouth and Bristol, you know, the bit of rough ground by the food van! I'd seen the location on a number of occasions when leaving Bristol and as [...]
Location Motorcycle Photography: Kawasaki ZX10rr
Motorcycle photography in the UK is a bit of a lottery and a coastal location in February on increases the risk of a lively shoot, but the weather gods were playing fair on this visit. I'd visited Severn Beach previously [...]
Paris Blues: Harlem NYC
This has been on my to-do list for too long, I'd promised Tehrin Cole the bass player that I would share these images with him and I have eventually done so. Paris Blues is Harlem's oldest live jazz club, small, [...]
Step by Step Guide to Lighting a Motorbike Shoot
We all have different ways of shooting but this is quick look at a recent studio lit motorbike shoot of a YZF-R1 Yamaha at GT Motorcycles. You can see the wider scene here. Although we had mains power (image left) [...]
Photographing Motorbikes: In The Camera Not The Computer
Let's start with the basics, the motorbikes may be glamorous but photographing motorcycles isn't necessarily so particularly not mid-January in Plymouth. The task on this day was to photograph two stonking bikes for a 2019 Superbikes calendar. A 2018 YZF-R1 [...]
New York Architecture
OK let's be clear, these are a few of my New York holiday snaps, (I lost count of the number of people who asked if I was going to New York on photography business) and this is a small sample [...]
Photographing Motorbikes
Every time I do these motorbike photography shoots I tell myself I am going to do it simpler and quicker. And, my how I try to work more tidily, try is the power word here though. The task for this [...]
Guitar Photography on Location
This product photography taken near Swindon is as much about the material as the creation. These precision instruments are created using aluminium, milled with 5 axis CNC technology from a solid block. Whilst these instruments use traditional necks, as we [...]