First Wedding

Have just been comissioned for my first wedding this week. Not really my thing but I hope to take inspiration from jerry ghionis who i discovered a few days back.

This guy takes wedding photography to a whole new level so i am going to practice like mad over the next few months to get my technical mastery over my new camera up to something like. Who knows maybe i could really take to it... Just not sure i can put up with stroppy brides the rest of my life.

New Fav photographer

So over the last few weeks I was researching tethered photography and one of the names to pop up was Miss Anelia. I had never heard of her before but after finding out she was from my home town of Leeds (Well Poland really but was living in Leeds when she made it) and the fact she came out of know where i thought i would give her a chance.

Her digital manipulation skills blow me away and, after buying two of her books, she has really thrown her hat into the ring as my favorite photographer, certainly of the modern age at least.

Indeed as she shares many of her techniques in her book i will definitly be trying some of her techniques myself in the coming months. The 'flying lady' images are what she does really well and it shows what you can do with a little time and patience on photoshop.

Hopefully i will get the chance over the summer to give it a go, with my new camera no less (D7000 its so sexy).



Photography Magazines

Now I'm not sure if it is just me but after working on recreating a magazine as part of my course (I chose Source) I noticed something. Of all the ones I read as research they seemed to come in two hugely varing styles. Half are the tech and jargon heavy mags such as Digital Photographer and the rest are overly pretencious tosh, such as source. Is there no middle ground?
I would love a Magazine that has beautiful pictures with a little context rather than stunning images with non or boring ones with loads. Surely others must agree?

Rant over

Street Photography


My current project has involved something I haven't really done before in a professional context. Though I have in the past enjoyed Urban portraiture I have never really replicated this with architecture. My self published book 'No sign of life' Involved photographing buildings with old signs still in place. It has been a challenge to adapt. With Urban portraiture you bring the shot to life through the model, giving you an organic, 'flowing' feel and I struggled at first to replicate this with the inanimate objects that are buildings and signs. Eventually I started to look more for the unique qualities of the buildings and I think that has helped.