Pocket Wizards

A little treat with your coffee?

November 30, 2010 Food Photography

Thought I’d post something different today, and shock horror, there are no people in today’s images. Instead, laydees n gennulmen, I bring you CAKES!: Black Forest and Madarin gateaux to be precise. Not just big cakes though, you could also have something more bite-size. Chocolate or fruit?: Maybe a slice of Apple & Cinnamon?: Or [...]

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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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Getting creative for a charity shoot

November 12, 2010 Corporate photography

I was asked to come up with a creative idea to promote the Irish Wheelchair Association’s Angel-pin day. This is a flag-day where lapel pins are sold to the public to raise funds for a charity. Sometimes with charities they think some kind of personality and a brochure or flyer and that’s more than enough [...]

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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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Putting your face on..

September 10, 2010 Editorial photography

..Ladies. Or Gentlemen I suppose. *Not wishing to appear judgemental* Here’s something that’s a bit different, and I only use it to point out a couple of things (well three actually having thought about it). This was an editorial shoot for a beauty/female supplement and the focus was on the make-up: Point 1: Use a [...]

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SuperHero..

September 6, 2010 Corporate photography

and super heroes. I recently read something by a PR contact of mine complaining about the fee that “celebrities” charge to attend/launch/endorse a product or service and it got me thinking about the times that I’ve done a shoot where the opposite is true. The difference? The celebs in my cases have been sports people, [...]

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Courgettes, Runner Beans &..

August 31, 2010 Editorial photography

..a huge softbox. Of course, the courgettes and runner beans (oh, and cherry tomatoes) have absolutely nothing to do with the shoot, they were just a bonus that I received as a gift from my subject. The softbox wasn’t a softbox either, I just made that bit up. Read on.. I’ve posted Corporate & Commercial [...]

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Portrait of a Pianist

August 3, 2010 Editorial photography

Had an editorial shoot recently where I was asked to photograph a music student, at a piano. Nothing remarkable in the shoot, except it took me 3 lights to get the effect I wanted, and I’m not sure what I wanted was what the publication wanted, because the article didn’t run in the end! Oh [...]

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Entrepreneur

July 28, 2010 Corporate photography

Another in the “not a man with folded arms corporate announcement image” series (which isn’t really a series, but an occasional musing). Could also be filed under the WTF am I going to do in this instance category, where nobody (including me) has any real ideas initially on how to portray someone when there is [...]

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