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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wow-Wall Photos for Exeter School Swimming Pool
Wow indeed! As a regular swimmer I've been keen to photograph swimmers for some time and recently this photographic opportunity has been realised thanks to Exeter School. The school has just opened a new swimming pool which will benefit Exeter [...]
Rail and Canal Engineering Shoot
My largest photography bag is the actually the one with my PPE; helmets, goggles, a harness and a buoyancy aid, as well as all of the other essentials such as eye protectors, boots and gloves. Recent engineering photography shoots have [...]
Night-Time Civil Engineering Photography: Exeter
It's not often that I can walk to a civil engineering photography shoot but this one is local, so local that I feel I know the Bridge Road Exeter site intimately. Recently when passing along Bridge Road, Countess Wear I [...]