A colleague and friend of mine recently shared a link to some fantastic Star Wars photos: behind the scenes images from George Lucas’s ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ As it’s such an epic film that brings about a fair bit of nostaligia to a lot of people, I thought I’d share them with you. The images appear to have come from various sources however it is worth noting that the official photographer for the film was George Whitear who later went […]
With my love of film, I recently went to a networking night held by Shooting People -an international networking organisation dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking. Shooting People have recently partnered up with the bigwigs at Channel 4 to help promote their Alpha Fund tour and as a result, Channel 4’s Avi Grewal was present to talk about the opportunities available to talented new filmmakers. Channel 4 are looking for emerging writers, directors and anyone else with […]
On Sunday I did a specials shoot for the Creative Film Network’s upcoming family feature, Guy. With a 5:30am start, we wanted to catch a glorious sunrise cresting the hill of our chosen location in Moseley Bog (the very same bog alleged to have inspired legendary Lord of the Rings author, J.R.R. Tolkien for his vision of, ‘The Shire’). It seemed we were in luck as there wasn’t any hint of rain as we set out with our lights and […]
Huge congratulations to Layla for coming second in Big Brother Australia 2012! I had huge hopes for her winning it but coming away from a great experience with new friends, a new car and $10,000 can’t be bad! In homage to Layla, I thought I’d release a few more images from one of our fashion shoots way back in the day! This was from a test shoot we did in Manchester looking at the hide and reveal nature of lace […]
Back in June, I got in touch with legendary stills photographer, David Appleby, to see if there was any chance I might be able to assist him during any of his upcoming work. I am a HUGE fan of David’s photography and his prowess with a camera has seen him work on over seventy different feature films across a 40 year career. Shooting the likes of Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Junior and Arnold Schwarzennegar, David has worked with legendary […]
Ever heard of femto photography? In this amazing TED Talk, Professor Ramesh Raskar unveils a camera developed by he and his team in the media lab at MIT, that can photograph a subject at a trillion frames per second. The video above demonstrates the camera’s ability to even record light itself as it moves across the frame as well as how this photon-imaging technology may one day lead to cameras that can see ‘around’ corners as well as inside the […]
Ever wanted to travel the world? Unfortunately not everyone can afford to go gallivanting off on the holiday of a life time but Australian photographer, Shantanu Starick, has come up with an ingenious way to do just that without having to spend a single penny! ‘The Pixel Trade,’ is quite possibly one of the most brilliant ideas for a photo project I’ve ever come across. Starting with a couple of business owners in Australia, he offers his time as a […]
Last year I got a call from my good friend and talented actor, Amed Hashimi asking if I’d be interested in working on a film with him and up and coming director, Paul Tanter. I was. So I jumped on a train and headed down to Wimbledon Studios where we were due to film the riot scenes of the film which at that point in time had the title of, ‘Money For Nothing.’ It was a great day for stills […]
As mentioned in my previous blog, I recently returned to the realm of studio photography, to work with the lovely, Lucie Webster, on a somewhat messy photo shoot involving a lot of dry paint. Unfortunately, covering the white studio floor with bin liners and tarp didn’t spare me from a 5 hour clean-up operation trying to restore the now pink studio, back to its original shiny state! Note to self: next time, use sand. Timing is everything with this kind […]
These days I tend to spend most of my time shooting out on location, but I recently had a commission from the lovely Lucie Webster, which required me to re-acquaint myself with the studio. There’s no lack of well-established photography studios in Birmingham, however I chose to try out the newly built, White Room Studios, run by friend and fellow photographer, Dan Stone. White Room Studio is based just outside Birmingham City Centre and with 2500sqft of space it houses […]