The fine art of producing high quality advertising photography is not as one would expect. The amount of work and money required to produce one of those advert spreads we commonly see in a magazine is mind boggling! We all think about the day of the shoot and getting that right image, but what is [...]
Advertising photography – it’s not as easy as it looks
April 27th, 2010Cherry Pickers…are not just for picking cherries!
April 15th, 2010Late last year, my team and I were commissioned to photograph the new completed phase for Arcos Gardens Golf Club and Country Estate. The Club, located in the picturesque countryside of the town Arcos de la Frontera, had recently completed construction of their magnificent new Clubhouse and required new images of the building as well [...]
Escape to Africa
March 23rd, 2010My latest photographic adventure took me on a relatively short trip down to the Dark Continent. I was commissioned to photograph a unique Moroccan-styled townhouse in Tangier, Morocco. As that I live in Southern Spain, getting to Tangier involved a short car ride into the expansive port of Algeciras followed by a one [...]
Quality Images Sell
September 30th, 2009The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” certainly holds true in our fast paced and image conscious world. Today’s real estate world is largely based on Internet and print publications. As that virtually every property on the market has been advertised using images, high quality photographs can make a huge impact on [...]
Panorama Perfect
September 7th, 2009We’ve all been there and seen it…… So you’re on holiday or just happen to be taking a drive out into the local mountain range (if you happen to be lucky enough to live in a place like that) and there it is, the most amazing view! You have your camera on you, however the [...]
Stock shoot Kids ‘n’ Balloons
July 23rd, 2009OK, so shooting stock photography is somewhat of a gamble. Even after working out the details of each shoot and the various concepts ahead of time, and after you’ve shot 1500 images in a day and then had your editor cut your day’s shoot down to a mere 20 to 30 shots, you still don’t [...]
How to photograph a 100-TON CAT
March 25th, 2009Our CAT adventure began at 4.30 AM on a cold Spanish January morning. After three cups of coffee and a final equipment check, we set off for the Malaga-based corporate training center for Caterpillar, the world’s largest and best-known maker of construction and mining machinery. My team and I were commissioned to capture images of [...]
Powerboat shoot in Sotogrande
December 23rd, 2008This past December, our team were commissioned to create images to be used in advertising campaigns for a new business venture featuring ultra fast powerboats based out of Sotogrande in southern Spain. This assignment presented with its own unique challenges. Orchestrating the positions of both the 20 meter Sunseeker shoot boat and the [...]