This image of Jen (my wife) is made up of 300 individual pictures from over the years.- I loved creating this and it's an unusual and interesting way to create something slightly different from the typical portraits.
My son will hate me for posting this, but it's one of my all time favourite images - it started life as a very candid shot of George which lent itself well to creating this high key black and white image, allowing his incredible eyes to shine.
This was my first family studio shoot, and I was so pleased with the result. I love the feeling of warmth and comfort from young Hari - he looks so content in his mum's arms. Obviously, shooting such photogenic people always helps with the end result, but it still takes patience, time, luck and a lot of photo's to capture that one shot that makes it all worthwhile.
Just playing around with the colours and tones sometimes can give you a totally different end result - in these two images I subtly played with the range to go from a warmer more nostalgic feel (above) to a cleaner, sharper, more modern-feeling portrait (below).... which do you prefer? Answers on a postcard (or in the Contact Form) if you please.
I'm a huge fan of candid shots, and believe you can really capture so much more character and feeling than with posed or staged images. This is especially true when working with young children (or difficult adults!) - you can see the mischief and curiosity shining through in this shot of an incredibly cute young lady.
This is another example of the candid shot working so well to capture far more than you could ever experience through a posed portrait - here I'm whisked back to the days when Emily (our beautiful daughter) was still endlessly entertained with the simple joys of a small park... long before vast, digital worlds of Minecraft, Roblox and Tic Toc stole her away for hours on end. Candid shots like this are amazing for bringing back the emotions, sights and sounds which would otherwise be long forgotten.... precious memories are our greatest possetion.
My amazing young man captivated by something in the woodland floor - this was a cold and crisp day and whatever was so fascinating kept George busy long enough fro me to take some shots of him without him pulling a silly face or running away. Thank you bug/spider/whatever you were! :o)
Although this is not the perfect picture from a technical point of view - the composition could have been much better and the background much cleaner - I still love the spirit of it. Sometimes a great shot doesn't hang around for the right conditions and even though we could spend hours in Photoshop removing unwanted people and objects, if the picture brings a smile when you look at it, then it doesn't always need to be perfect.
This is Albie, our Bassett Hound, and this is one of his favourite poses! I love this shot not only because it shows his (lazy) character, but for the warmth of the colours and the cozy feeling it portrays.
Sometimes you just have to thank the [insert subjective here] that camera's were invented... this is Lizzy, my daughters Painted Dragon when she was around a month old. That's Emily in the very blurry distance, transfixed on her new tiny pet dragon, and my grubby digits in the foreground - technology is an incredible tool to help us see the natural world from a different perspective, and I just love messing around with my toys.
The light was just incredible when I snapped this image, and it's not always easy to get a good quality picture when there are such extremes of light and shadow, but the colours all around in this wooded area were so amazing I couldn't stop until I'd managed to find the right shot. Sometimes candid, instant shots are what you need, but other times you have to put in the time, effort and hard work to make things happen.
