Film Stills

I was contacted by a canadian production company to produce some film stills of wildlife in the Uk for them. We had a great time making the documentary which is to be aired on animal planet, national geographic Tv and potentially a few others.

We shot wild wallabies in surrey and te ring necked parakeets in the royal parks. If you want to see some more of the pictures I took, have a look at the website that the production company have set up. All the shots from the UK are mine. 

New baby

So - no entries for a while, but I have been busy...well not so much me, as the wife.

As with any new Dad I find myself faced with a dilemma - beautiful new baby but a hopsital ward full of tired women with new born babies. You want to get that decent picture to send to your family (and it has to be a cut above the norm - after all, you are a photographer for goodness sake).

So what did I do?

Step 1 -  take off your black jumper and place it under your new bundle of joy, praying that he doesn't decide to spit up his lunch on it.

Step 2 - Take your off camera flash and being right handed, hold it to camera left as far as you can to get a nice directional light.

Step 3 - Set a nice wide aperture in order to blur the cloth he is wrapped in and to disguise the now slightly damp jumper...

Job done. 

The more astute of you may notice that his face is in shadow from the direction of the light - this is due to the side of the cot which acted like a gobo. The nice thing about holding the flash off camera means it is not directed straight at the little man's eyes unlike with an on camera flash or a compact.