tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21311561738754390202012-01-18T13:37:54.329-08:00An editorial, commercial and corporate photographer based in London, United Kingdom.Andy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09971848575074616667noreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131156173875439020.post-75645976018559271662012-01-03T13:21:00.000-08:002012-01-04T00:14:56.898-08:00

Sustainable Cocoa Production, Ghana from Andy Smith on Vimeo.Between 25 November and 5 December 2011 I worked on a corporate shoot about sustainable and traceable cocoa production. A film crew and I visited the cocoa growing region of Western Ghana, documenting everything from seed nurseries to distribution depots. As well as six local community projects: farmer training, seed nurseries, malaria

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In October I photographed Graeme Scrivener for the December issue of RBS World Magazine. Graeme works in investment banking and has cycled 37,000 miles across five continents. He has one more ride to go in South America. You can read more and see pictures from the bike rides he's doing for charity at his blog here - www.whereisgraemescrivener.blogspot.com

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If you want to have a read click the pages to make them bigger.Thank you F2 Freelance Photographer Magazine

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Portraits of staff for Britvic Life Magazine, in the Britvic factory in Chelmsford. For Specialist

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3 X 48 sheet posters and 1 X 96 sheet poster for Leeds City College 2011 outdoor campaign.

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British Artist Michael James Smith for the October cover of Artists and Illustrators magazine. Michael currently has exhibitions in the USA and in the UK. You can see more of his work on his website here

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Portraits of Sonja Simon, Head of Group Accounting and Reporting for SAP, for the cover and main feature of IBR Magazine. Shot last month at the impressive SAP headquarters in Walldorf, 100k's south of Frankfurt.

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In November 2009 I wrote a blog post about Photoquai, a photography exhibition on the banks of the river Seine in Paris which I stumbled across by accident.The exhibition's PR team got in touch and asked if I'd mention it again so here it is. The image above was shot by Julian Lineros of Colombia and shows a child soldier being trained by paramilitary soldiers in the Colombian rainforest. If you

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A figure drawing class I photographed recently at the London Atelier of Representational Art for the September 2011 issue of Artists and Illustrators magazine. Thanks to Art Editor Chloë Collyer and life model Eli Goldstone.

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New lifestyle photography portfolio online at - andysmithuk.com I've been meaning to get around to this for a while. The talented bunch responsible for the new portfolio of work at my website (link above) are: Rosalind Keep - Stylist Elkie Phillips - Hair and make-up artist Katy, Meme, Olivia and Charlie represented by Mustard Models - London and Bristol.

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Corporate portraits of Pete Drysdale. Associate Director, Barclays Finance. 30 floors up in Barclays Tower, Canary Wharf, London. Cover sand main feature for IBR magazine, July 2011.

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Like all keen bloggers I like to look after my loyal reader by writing up to the minute content once every six months.So here are a few shots I did recently with Richmond upon Thames College for their 2011/2012 prospectuses. Click on the image to see a larger version.

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Portrait of Paul Squires, Head of Trading at AXA Investment Managers outside St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Shot last month for FIX Global Magazine.

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I was very pleased to be asked recently to exhibit four portraits at the 2011 Brighton Fringe Festival. I've never exhibited work before so I'm looking forward to seeing how collectors/the fine art market might (or might not) respond. There are four photography exhibitions taking place at the AM Gallery in Brighton under the heading of The Fringe Show N.S.A.P - Narrative, Still life, Abstract and

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Portraits of Peter Dickson, voice-over man for the X-Factor, E4 and other TV and radio shows/ ads. Few more at my website on the homepage here and in the editorial photography portfolio.

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Last year I started a series of images as a personal assignment called the Psoriasis Portrait Project. They're now online at my website in the personal portfolio, you can see them here.Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition and is caused due to increased speed of the human bodies’ natural skin replacement process. Ordinarily it takes around 30 days for this process to complete. In people who have

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A design agency in New Orleans got in touch last month and asked me to photograph an alumni from the University of New Orleans for their 2011/12 prospectus. Gioel Gioacchino, who had studied International Affairs at UNO is now continuing her studies at Cambridge University. The concept the design agency was working with was to photograph portraits of former students in their new environments, so

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We were lucky enough to try some of the food cooked by Ken Hom on a shoot recently in London. As you can see here it was served in bowls. Had somebody told us we had to eat if off the floor though, I don't mind admitting I'd have been the first one to hit the deck.Ken certainly knows his way around a wok.Shot for 3Sixteen last month in London as part of Chinese New Year celebrations.

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Polo player Sbu Duma is back in the news. This time in The Witness, a local newspaper in his hometown in the Dargle Valley, South Africa. We shot the image below (top in the article) by strapping the camera to Dieter Rowe-Setz, Duma's Mentor, whilst he galloped along behind him. Some several thousand shots later we had this one that worked. Its not easy taking pictures when you can't see what's

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Last new years eve I worked on a project for a report about violence and aggression towards staff in Southampton General Hospital Emergency Department for ESRO and the Design Council. We started at 7pm on 31 December 2010 and left at 5am on 1 Jan 2011 and it certainly felt as though a year had passed in the meantime. We had nothing to complain about though, the Consultants, Doctors and Nurses

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© Ronald Kakulu 2010.Last Christmas I decided that instead of buying cards and sending prints to clients I would loan the money I would have otherwise spent through Kiva, a micro finance organisation. On behalf of said clients I loaned US$200 to the Kanyogoga Bakyara Tukore Group in Uganda. Our loan was put together with those of other lenders who did the same, and it was used to backfill a loan

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December 2010 issue of the FIX Global Journal and a portrait I did in November of Stuart Baden-Powell, Vice President Execution Sales and Strategy at the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, London. Stuart is a popular man this month so as well as shooting portraits on the RBC trading floor we did some others for various publications. There are a few of those below with the Gherkin in the

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How cool is this? During the search for Christmas presents I came across this website by Erin Paysse, based in Seattle WA, USA via a link on Twitter. Erin makes beautiful hand crafted pinhole cameras from old books. I've never seen anything like them before and thought it was an amazing idea. There's some more photographs of this particular camera inside this post and if you want to visit her

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When I received an email from Chloë, the Art Editor on Artists and Illustrators magazine, asking if I would be able to photograph Sir Peter Blake for the December issue I could have jumped on the tube and gone to their offices to give her a big kiss. In the interest of our professional relationship I didn't do that in the end but I was very, very happy. Photographing people is like a night out,

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A few outakes from a recent assignment in Bury, Lancashire. Peter Waddington is a Koi expert and Author of several books on the subject. These were taken in his back garden, there's a couple more in the editorial photography portfolio at my website. And if you're interested in Koi, you can see a selection of Peter's books including Koi Kichi [Kichi I'm told means crazy in Japanese] along with his

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I had a portrait to shoot in Wales last Saturday and stopped off at a supermarket on the way back. Just in case local shoppers in Cardiff were in any doubt about which side of the English - Welsh border their Daffodil bulbs came from this company decided to make things as clear as possible.They're not just Welsh, oh no...

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I moved to London from Yorkshire about six months ago, [for the benefit of any Londoners, Yorkshire is north of Luton] and having been dragged up there surrounded by whippets, sleet, hail, wind and coal, the last thing I would have expected to find on the Yorkshire coast was surfers. You're unlikely to find bikini clad blonde bombshells paddling out through pristine clear waves and board short

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A couple of tearsheets from the FIX Global Journal who commissioned me to shoot these two portraits of Dale Brooksbank at State Street Global Advisors and Ian Firth at Aviva Investors in June. Dale was in Canary Wharf and Ian in The City, fortunately I live bang in the middle of both so didn't have far to go. There are a few more from this assignment and others at the corporate photography

Andy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09971848575074616667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131156173875439020.post-621937995344467152010-07-07T04:24:00.000-07:002010-07-07T04:27:48.667-07:00

Quick one got to dash.News of the gold award for the Leeds City College summer ad campaign is spreading fast, read all about it here at Creative Match.

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Its a bit thin on the ground for the time being but there's a new corporate photography portfolio at my website. Some of the shots were done for existing clients in London and some newer portraits were shot for FIX Global Journal just a few weeks ago.Check out more of the new work here - corporate photographer London.

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Slightly off topic for a photography blog but on a musical note for a Friday afternoon I just heard Roy Orbison singing I Drove All Night and wanted to make a few points about some lyrics:"I drove all night to get to you,is that alright?"Fair enough, I suppose its quite romantic. Some women would appreciate the sentiment, others might think its a bit OTT but you could probably explain your way

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In early May I was asked to photograph dragon slayer/TV chef/musician and all around cool bloke Levi Roots for the launch of a new range of Caribbean chilled meals. You can see a few more portraits of Levi in the corporate photography portfolio at my website. Above is the music video to a track called So Out of My Mind which is on the new Red Hot album launched earlier this year and features Levi

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After shooting an outdoor campaign for Leeds City College last summer it was entered in to the 2010 HEIST Awards which celebrates the best in education marketing on an annual basis. The Leeds City College campaign won gold in the main category 'Best Integrated Campaign'You can see the 96 sheet posters that were shot over the course of four days in the advertising photography portfolio. along with

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In May I photographed Portrait Artist and Painter June Mendoza for the cover and a feature inside the July issue of Artists and Illustrators magazine.

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You may have seen the post from March about the Media Trust photography mentoring project in association with Mediabox and the Guardian Media Group [Guardian and Observer]. To recap, I was asked by the Media Trust to volunteer as a mentor to young photographers who would benefit from one-to-one mentoring through the Media Trusts' projects which connect young people who are interested in working

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Artists and Illustrators Magazine is the UK's leading magazine for artists and illustrators and in the June issue I photographed Sculptor Nathan David for a feature about him and his work. The video above shows Nathan and myself in his studio in Barnes, London, shooting his portraits for the feature as well as a short interview about him, his journey as a Sculptor and his work. For anybody that's

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Artist Mark Braithwaite appears on the cover of the May issue of Artists and Illustrators magazine, which I shot last month in Mark's studio in York. On Monday April 12 I'll be heading to South London to shoot another feature for Artists and Illustrators, along with a video to show the readers, as blogged about by Editor Steve Pill at the Artists and Illustrators blog.

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I've never really dabbled with fashion before but when I was contacted by a friend and colleague and asked wether I would be interested in getting together with GingerandBrown who are a combined team, one an Art Director and the other a Stylist, I thought why not.GingerandBrown came up with three different concepts and outfits for our cold but very helpful model Zana to wear and off we went to

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Late last year I was contacted by the Media Trust and asked wether I would be interested in volunteering to mentor young photographers. The Media Trust work with people from all over the UK and match them with professionals from all areas of the media from photography, film and sound recording to television presenting, journalism and script writing... the list goes on. By matching young people

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My trusty assistant Kevin kindly posed for a spot the ball competition photograph. You know the score, we've removed the ball and you have to put a cross where you think it is. Drag and drop the file on to your desktop, open it in PS, have a rough stab in the dark at where you think it might be then email it back to me.Whoever is closest wins a romantic all expenses paid weekend break for two in

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In mid-January I was asked to photograph Artist Angela Smyth for a feature and the cover of the February/March issue of Artists and Illustrators magazine. Angela has a studio in Sowerby Bridge near Halifax in north Yorkshire. To see more of her work you can visit - www.angelasmyth.co.uk and to find out where you can see Angela's work exhibited take a look here for information about galleries you

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A recent project photographing heroic portraits of sports people lead to this short video of us shooting a swimmer last week. There's some photo-geeky stuff on the end of it about how we waterproofed a flash and pocket wizard transceiver for any photographers interested in knowing how we shot these images but other than that its just a look at what goes on behind the scenes of what for us was

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Well my first attempt at winning the Travel Photographer of the Year competition has slipped through my hands. I didn't even get a twelfth place, runner-up, dishonorable mention in the blind, under two year olds with an injured, fractured or broken shooting finger category. Well done to those who did though, its hard work pressing the shutter when your finger is broken and to do it at such a

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Some shots from a recent stock project for Photolibrary. An explanation of the how, where and why after the continue reading link.The idea was to create a set of images that captured the atmosphere of an Algerian restaurant in Hyde Park, just outside Leeds city centre. Zana the model was chosen from three possible female models for this shoot. The Creative Director suggested it might help us

Andy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09971848575074616667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131156173875439020.post-65299683537252360342009-11-11T01:49:00.000-08:002009-11-11T02:23:58.320-08:00

On a recent visit to Paris I came across an outdoor exhibition called Photoquai and saw some portrait photography that made me stop and look, for a good few hours, on the freezing cold banks of the River Seine. Hit the next p[age button to find out what its all about, the snappers exhibiting are well worth a look if you like portrait photography."Created in 2007 by the musée du quai Branly and

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Ever seen Minority Report? Maybe its not that far fetched after all. Check out this video of Outside Magazine shooting a motion cover and inside spread.

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If you do, you may have noticed a few changes. If you don't, here's what they are:I have a new domain name - www.andysmithuk.comand a new email address - andy@andysmithuk.comAlso, I recently updated a few portfolios with work from September and October, you can see new work by the following links:Editorial portrait photography.Commercial advertising photography.

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Myself and a film crew from KHouse Media did some work last year for the Maybach Foundation in South Africa and Argentina and I received an email recently with news of their new website that's just gone live with some of the work we did. I mentioned a while ago how four of the protegés on one of the Maybach Foundation's programs were photographing the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site in

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We've continued to shoot the many and varied courses that Leeds City College offer to their students over the last couple of weeks since the students have returned to studying after the summer break. We've done this video primarily for a talk I've been asked to give to students at another college in Lancashire called Nelson and Colne College, about working and lighting on location which I'll be

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Rushing... I'm trying to answer this quickly whilst packing my bags to head off to exotic Birmingham for a job there this week so here goes...I received an email from a student this week, who shall remain nameless at their request, regarding one of the images in the billboard campaign we shot for Leeds City College over the summer. The "character" they referred to was one of the rugby players in

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Keeping with the campaign theme for little longer, as promised here are a few snaps of the campaign we shot for Leeds City College, out and about in the city. I'll post more up here as and when I get chance. And in case you missed it, here's the video of us shooting it... again!

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As I mentioned in the previous post, we managed to cut together some [very] rough bits of video of the Leeds City College Summer '09 photo shoot that I've been working on over the last few months. The campaign is now up throughout Leeds and Bradford. The video below shows how we did it.To read more thank yous and for who was involved hit the continue reading link.Another thanks to the following

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These two images are part of an outdoor media campaign I recently photographed for a newly formed college called Leeds City College. They are displayed on 96 sheet billboards, along with other campaign images on adshels [bus stops], supersides [buses] and telephone boxes throughout Leeds and Bradford between now and September 2009. [click on the image above to make them larger].To see the adshel

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Photographer Sean Malyon recently photographed Bryony Shaw for Sportsister, an Olympic Bronze Medalist Windsurfer in Beijing 2008.Using the new Nikon D90 Sean managed to capture some of it on video and over a few light ales in Bristol recently, talked me through the shoot. Hit continue reading for a full lighting set up diagram and a short description on how it was done.I asked Sean about his

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I found this site a few years ago and they sent an email recently with a reminder of what's going on. ISSUU is a self publishing platform which when I joined and uploaded an "e-picture book" was in its very basic stages. Since then many more people have joined and the options now for publishing online, sharing your work and socializing with a community of people who are doing the same thing are

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As part of an ongoing project I've been working on for some years now, I was very lucky to meet Sbu Duma a few times last year, a talented young polo player from a small town in South Africa. Sbu has just made it to the UK and will be playing his polo this summer in West Sussex.Images I shot as part of a promotional campaign for the Maybach Foundation in South Africa and Argentina have recently

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A couple of months ago I received an email from Gallery Stock enquiring if I might be interested in submitting some work. I'd never heard of them before and did a little research and found out more than enough reasons to say yes. I've never really committed to stock before, largely because I haven't had much faith in the agencies I've sent work to in the past. Some stock photography agencies now

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I came across this a day or two ago and wanted to offer it out there as a fantastic opportunity if you're available and can be in Bristol on those dates. This is something I've worked on for clients in the past and we've had broadcast Editors put the final slideshows together, which costs money that you as a photographer could be earning. This course is £300 a day for a freelance, a broadcast

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As discussed in the previous post the live in conversation evening at the National Media Museum in Bradford just over one week ago was a fascinating event.Incase you missed out, you can listen to the podcast of the entire evening by clicking here.In the introduction to the conversation, Curator Colin Harding describes McCullin as a legend, which isn't unfair to say in photography terms. This

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I'm very lucky to have the National Media Museum half an hour down the road from where I live, there's always a decent flic to watch or an interesting exhibition to see [not to mention the endless supply of the countries finest curry houses just a stones throw from it's front door]. This time they've really gone to town however. The National Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire, is opening an

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© Andy Smith 2009. A child holding a chicken at a temporary traveler and gypsie site in Costessey, Norfolk, England, UK.As mentioned above, other galleries have been updated with new work from recent projects I've worked on in Norfolk and Swindon.The new work can be seen in Portfolio 1 by clicking on the link below:Commercial Photographer UK.

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A family selling fresh fruit at the side of the road. Rarotonga, Cook Islands. © Andy Smith 2009.In December 2008 and January 2009 I worked on a stock assignment in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and Goa and Mumbai in India, some images from which are now live on my website in Portfolio 3.Other galleries are currently being worked on to be updated, but in the meantime you can take a look at the

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If you like looking at pictures you're going to love this.Life and Getty Images have teamed up to create an archive that spans all the way back from your Great Great Greatest of Great Gran's first day at primary school, until a week next Tuesday.Check it out here.

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© Marika Asatiani.In the previous post I talked about an assignment I worked on in Argentina in late November 2008 for the Maybach Foundation, who are supporting the progress of four photographers, working on documenting the rebuild of the World Trade Centre construction site in New York. The Foundation kindly passed on a few questions to Ben and Marika, two of their photography protégés, as

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UPDATE: New video here - KHouse MediaIn late November 2008 I worked on an assignment in Lobos, Argentina for The Maybach Foundation where myself, Producer Sarah Gillbard of Lucky Horseshoe Productions [Nottingham, UK] and cameraman Gary Osbourne of K House Media [Brighton, UK] were documenting the progress of Sbu Duma, a South African Polo player, who is being supported in his development by The

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It's very important to have an interest in other photographers' work at any stage in your career as a photographer, but particularly at the beginning. What you look at will influence you a great deal and have an impact on your own work. For anybody who may not have heard of Annie Leibovitz you're in for a real treat. You know when you say to a friend, "have you seen the new Bond flick?" and they

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Not specifically photography related this one but a rant in that general direction and more than anything a great tip for accommodation in Nottingham if ever you find yourself looking for an interesting place to stay. Langar Hall is now up there in my top five favorite places in the world to knock out a few Z's and it's shot straight to number one for places to edit en-route. After a day shooting

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Phil White is a Freelance Cameraman based in the Midlands, UK. He has a career that spans 30 years and an enviable list of documentary and corporate clients worldwide, including The Discovery Channel, the BBC, Audi and Coca Cola. Phil has kindly agreed to give up some of his spare time to answer a few questions which will hopefully shed some light on the profession, which for obvious reasons is

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Pietermaritzburg was the location of a documentary assignment I've just completed in South Africa as of last Thursday. I have yet to receive permission from the client on publicizing the exact subject of the work but that's OK because I've got a short video to edit and put together which is going to take some time anyway. *One of the photographs is from me testing a remote shutter device which I

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I was in a bar over the weekend enjoying a few drinks with friends when a song came on that reminded me of an idea I had for a series of posts about photographers. Everybody has their influences and sources of inspiration in photography. This particular photographer isn't so much a direct influence [on me personally] but he is undoubtedly an inspiration. If he's not an inspiration to you now,

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This was my reaction when I found out that my website had been dropped down the Google rankings due to various [and still unknown] recent changes. A certain degree of calm and some very useful information came from John Harrington's post titled Search Engines and your Website as it also did from some recent contact I've had with my web designers who have been nothing but helpful about the whole

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I was listening to the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio Two earlier today and there was a very interesting feature about greeting cards and how images are sometimes used on them. Allison Pearson of the Daily Mail was having a rant about how she didn't approve of the content of various greeting cards whilst somebody else from a card design/print company was defending their corner. You can listen to

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Further to the previous post called 'Assisting' this video from PDN Online might be of interest to you Mike. This highlights an interesting point for me in the sense that when I personally look for an assistant, one of the last things I'd be interested in, from a point of view of having an assistant working with me, is their photography. That's not to say that a photographer wouldn't help their

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Hi AndyThanks again for the great feedback on my first question regarding pitching it was really helpful and opened my eyes to a few important things. So now i have another subject i'm hoping you might be able to shed some light on and this is assisting.I did some assisting in my younger days before taking a different direction and finally ending up back in education last year to do a photography

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An assignment I recently finished in Cumbria, work from which can be seen in 'Portfolio 1' at my website portfolio, highlighted just how powerful photography can be when used to connect people with a subject. This is fairly apparent when you think about it but to experience it first hand and to be the one taking photographs that are making the connections is a good feeling.In Feb '08 David

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OK that's an outrageous statement but there's a tiny element of truth to it if you're a photographer, particularly if you're at the early stages of your career. Or at least sometimes it feels that way. Yesterday something happened to my website that made me drop my tools and make a few frantic telephone calls. My website had dropped off the face of the earth. Well, it had dropped off the face of

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Hi AndyThanks alot for the reply and i do have lots of questions to be honest but i'll just start with one ay? I don't mind my name being shown if it goes on the blog.So my question is...The thing i'm finding hard in making steps to becoming a working photographer is approaching people or potential clients. Actually selling myself or trying to get work seems a little difficult. Could you give

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Hi Andy,Love what you’re doing with the blog. It’s great to see someone opening up a forum of accessible advice and guidance.My main question is how do I become a professional photographer? I’ve never had any formal training and I have very little understanding of the commercial industry so it’s hard for me to know where to start in terms of selling my photography. I have a website up

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Thanks for looking.The Why.The plan here is to create a forum style blog which will allow photography students, or any other people, to ask questions about photography. I'm an editorial and commercial photographer based in London.Three or four years ago I had a million questions to ask about everything to do with photography. Fortunately I had one very helpful person to answer them for me. My

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