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Shooting Wagner

May 6, 2011 Corporate photography

No, not Richard Wagner the composer. He died in 1883. This Wagner is the one from X Factor who was in Cork recently: Having arranged that I was going to shoot him the minute he arrived from the airport and decided where I was going to place him, he arrived. Never mind that I hadn’t [...]

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Branch out

April 17, 2011 Editorial photography

Leaf nothing to chance. Yew need willow power to get to the root of the problem OK I’ll stop now Quick post about a quick editorial shoot for the business section of a “Sunday”. Treemetrics provide 3D scanning of forests and the software to maximise the yield from it. Saves wastage, saves trees. *Obviously* the [...]

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Dragons…

April 11, 2011 Corporate photography

…not the mythical ones that breathe fire, but the ones that have (different) TV series in the UK & Ireland – Dragon’s Den If you’re not familiar, the shows feature people with an idea or concept that try to get funding from a panel of “Dragons”, venture capital for an equity share in the business [...]

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Students

March 18, 2011 Corporate photography

They’re either a bunch of grubby layabouts, or nerdy geeks, right? Obviously the graduate of the year (female) from a major university is going to be a mousey, nerdy geek. Would that be a reasonable assumption? Wrong: Not content with graduating in Law, she then graduated in Medicine as well. Or the other way around. [...]

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Beach, chocolate and wind

March 4, 2011 Corporate photography

That’s wind as in Mistral, storm, air movement due to weather. Nothing to do with the chocolate. *just saying* So how to promote a food forum? Simple. Go to beach, get a chef, get a chocolatier, get kids. In my case the problem was getting down to, and back up from the beach, with what [...]

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Jimminy-ast

December 17, 2010 Corporate photography

I could do this once upon a time: Like I said, “Once upon a time” Not too sure I could do it now without a month in hospital afterwards… This young lady has a bucket-full of medals and awards as a gymnast and was one of a series of images taken recently of Sports Bursary [...]

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Charity creative

December 13, 2010 Corporate photography

I was asked recently to shoot a promotional image for a Corporate Quiz night as a fund-raiser for a charity. Hmmm, what on earth can I do to create something interesting from what seems at first to have limited potential for an interesting image. A quiz night, really???? I see so many boring images with [...]

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Gone fishin’

November 24, 2010 Corporate photography

Sometimes I nail the best image with the first one I take at a shoot (surprisingly frequently considering I don’t have a clue what I’m doing) and sometimes it’s the last one. Sometimes as a PR photographer when you’ve done the main images from a shoot and have them safely “in the can” as we [...]

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Swing-time

October 22, 2010 Corporate photography

As it’s Cork International Jazz Festival time, I’ll throw this post out today Had a great fun shoot last week for the launch of the line-up for the Clarion Hotel here in Cork. As well as other acts, the hotel is featuring a couple of jive bands, The Jive Aces and the Slammers Maximum Jive [...]

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I may be a tree-hugger

September 29, 2010 Editorial photography

Or I may just have a tree fetish. Any chance I get it seems I’m using a tree in my images. I like to put my subjects in front of them, next to them, under them, behind them or even in them. I had another opportunity recently when I shot Munster Rugby’s Denis Leamy for [...]

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