There are times when expensive lighting, tripods and extension cables just aren’t necessary. A little fill-in flash and an occasional flash pop are all you need to use to get a well-balanced image. To expose the room *and* the view outside, set your exposure for the view through the window, then use your flash to add light to the room.
Another shot from the recent St Pauls marketing shoot, this time showing the stunning ceiling above the quire. What can I say, it’s breathtaking! One of the things I love so much about this sort of work is meeting people who work in the places where I shoot, and getting to see parts of buildings that you’d never normally see.
Lionhouse produce an awesome baby mat thats soft, colourful and washable. This is a shot of baby model, Oscar, and the mat, taken for the mats launch advertising. if you want to buy one, the link is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07M8P12XB?ref=myi_title_dp
Here’s a shot from a recent product shoot for the PaperDry waterproof clipboard produced by Laserware. Shot on a rainy beach in the West Country, with Chris as the model, the PaperDry clipboard is ideal for anyone who needs to write outside in bad weather. An impressive product!
On the beach at Chapel Porth, near St Agnes, Cornwall. A fierce storm had been blowing off the sea, whipping the water into huge chunks of sea foam. In a tiny rook pool I found these iridescent bubbles. I couldn’t resist taking a shot although the wind was so strong that I could barely hold the camera still.
Both these shots were taken during stormy weather in Cornwall, in the south west of England. Wheel Coates is a disused tin mine, with ruins dating back to the late 1800s. The ruin in these shots used to house the engine and pump that kept the main 180m shaft dry.
How to Create a Monochrome Colour Wash Image In Photoshop
Monochrome colour wash images, essentially a mono-coloured black and white shot, have long been part of the repertoire of digital artists. Theyare now finding favour on Facebook, Instagram and on web pages. I was recently asked online to explain how they are done, and it seemed sensible to write it up for general use by everyone. So, here we go…
That’s it- from full colour image to a bespoke monochrome image with a colour wash. With a slight variation you can try applying a colour wash over a colour image, or use a mask to protect parts of the image whilst applying the wash to the rest. Have fun!
NOTE: Step 15 gives the options of using <Overlay> or <Luminosity> because although they produce similar results, they are not identical. Its worth playing with both options to see what looks best.
The ‘Whispering Gallery’ set in the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral is one of it’s principle tourist attractions. The accoustics are remarkable. Setting up in the gallery, early in the morning, and before the public arrived it felt like a vast space, with the onion-shape of the dome above giving glimpses of another balcony far over-head, and the jaw-dropping view to the cathedral floor way below.
Photography there is challenging; narrow walkways, high balconies for Health and Safety reasons, and huge variations in lighting as shafts of sunlight pierce the windows. A technical challenge to excite any photographer!
In the cathedral’s archives is an old black and white photograph of smartly dressed Londoners sitting in the Gallery, with their ears to the wall. It seemed like a lovely idea to re-create the image for modern times, with the assistance of some of the first tourists of the day.
Here it is in full colour and then, down below, in black and white, like the original.
and now in black and white, as in the original. I prefer the b/w rendering: There is more sense of mystery and atmosphere to it.
Recently I was commissioned to work on an advertising campaign for St Paul’s Cathedral, in London. Although it’s an important religious building, St Pauls is also a place where anyone can escape from the frenzied London atmosphere, find peace and quiet, buy a coffee, climb the dome for amazing views across London, or simply be a tourist and soak up the stunning architecture. It’s these many roles that the Cathedral wanted to highlight ,so the shoot promised to be varied, yet tightly targeted.
Here’s one that didn’t make it to the final selection process, simply because we don’t know who she is. When using images for advertising, you must have permission from anyone you in the image who could be identifiable… and for this shot I was too far away to attract her attention and talk to her. Luckily, for editorial purposes, I can still use the shot here though 🙂
So here we are, a brightly dressed lady gazing up into St Paul’s famous dome, whilst standing in the dead centre of the compass set out on the floor.
Inglorious played at Weyfest in 2017. Here’s Nathan James, lead singer, enjoying a pint of beer atfer their set.
Real Estate in Hampshire
St Paul’s Cathedral Quire
PaperDry Commercial Shoot
Sea Bubbles
Wheel Coates, Cornwall