EOS-1Ds MkIII

Having a whale of a time

June 2, 2011 Editorial photography

Sunday newspaper supplement: “Could you take a trip down to West Cork tomorrow?” Me: “Sure, what do you need?” Them: “A whale skeleton” Me: (thinking): WTF?; (saying): “Oh,… OK. Um, no problem” Very tricky lens selection as the whole thing is so long. Pic above is with a 15mm fish-eye. You know, fish, whale, fish-eye [...]

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Update on the wok-chuck

May 12, 2011 Corporate photography

and the winner is… Oh, before I tell you that, this is how it was done. One essential item I always try to have around is my faithful assistant Tonto** The problem with letting go a pile of stir-fry ingredients from a tray or bag is that the contents will spread out and not look [...]

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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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The wok-chuck

April 15, 2011 Corporate photography

Alternate post titles: a) How to shoot to a tight spec b) How to shoot something creative with the same amount of frames as a roll of film c) How to shoot something the old-fashioned way, without resorting to Photoshop to help you out This is Margaret Smith who runs a small cookery school under [...]

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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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Full moon, mwahaha!

March 24, 2011 Ramblings

After 3 attempts at writing a couple of different posts I’ve come to the conclusion my brain’s not functioning properly at the moment (not much news there then). So, while I try and get all the ducks in a line for the next post, here’s a pic of the recent full moon. Anyone who finds [...]

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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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Summer arrived early this year

March 14, 2011 Editorial photography

I wandered down to beautiful West Cork recently to do a shoot for the home supplement of a Sunday newspaper. The story was centred around what B&Bs are doing to add value to the B&B experience. In this case it was providing different courses while enjoying a stay, and in particular this one was song-writing [...]

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One-light and two-light CEO

March 8, 2011 Editorial photography

In the portion of my life where I still shoot as an Editorial Photographer, I’m often shooting business people, mostly for a couple of sunday newspapers. It’s always a challenge to avoid the man-in-suit-with-laptop, or man-with-folded-arms type portraits, which need to be saved up for emergencies, as sometimes they really are just about the only [...]

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