Monachyle Mhor

  A magazine asked me to supply images of the Chef and owner of Monachyle Mhor, a lovely hotel near Calendar. Tom Lewis is a real character, speaks really fast, laughs  a lot and manages to keep 5 conversations going at the same time. I wanted to try and bring that to the photograph but also create a sense of the landscape that he works in. He uses a lot of organic produce, in particular Venison which he shoots himself, guts himself and cooks himself so the landscape that provides him with his ingredients was important.

 

 

Glasgow Caledonian University – Postgraduate Prospectus Cover Shot

  Glasgow Caledonian had to find a cover shot for their Postgrad prospectus, typically they had a pretty good brief and all we had to do was get the shot. The cover design was sketched out in advance so I knew that we needed a small group of students in the foreground with possibly another small group in the background. They wanted bold colours on the left hand side of the frame to push the viewers eye to the right. Knowing the campus well we chatted through the options and then settled on this area. It was a corridor with lots of light on 1 side making for a potentially unbalanced shot so it was necessary to use flash in very specific areas of the shot to bring a sense of balance back.

 

After a half day shoot we had a good bunch of potential shots in the bag but this was how the cover ended up

Angus College

  Angus College needed some stock photography of their construction courses, there was no specific brief – just supply generic images for use in prospectuses and adverts. I spent a day working with the lecturers and students who were all great to work with.

 

Jewel and Esk College

One of my education clients is Jewel and Esk College, as part of their green initiative they encourage cycling to work. This image was used as a press photograph as well as in their prospectus, it was taken on a very cold day with a pretty bad sky. Not ideal!

University of Edinburgh – Prospectus Photography

Another Education client is University of Edinburgh, I was commissioned for 3 days to produce a number of images that can be used in the Prospectus. Some were planned (like the front cover) others were taken “on the fly” during lectures and classes.


This will probably be the front cover

This was one of the spontaneous shots – I really like this one

Studio Photography for Mandarina Shoes

This was my first job for Mandarina Shoes and it was not without its challenges. It was basic Hi-Key studio photography but the issue I encountered was trying to make sample shoes (that had travelled from the far east in a box) look like they were in perfect condition. Frustrating – Never! Lots of fishing wire, blue tack, newspaper and a helping hand.

Commercial Photography at Jewel and Esk College

One of my clients is Jewel and Esk College, one of the many educational establishments that I work for on a regular basis. These photographs are a tiny selection of the many I took for the prospectus this year.




Jewel and Esk have a brand new and very professional music section and they are rightly proud of the investment they have made here.
They also run a very successful restaurant on campus which is part of the training of catering students – very nice it is too.





They also have a successful engineering section at their Midlothian Campus training people for various posts but with a specific involvement in the oil industry.

Part of the brief was general shots of student life that can be stored on their image library and called off for future use. I liked the circular windows in this room.

And finally, some general shots of the buildings