Pr photographer Scotland – Business Portrait Photography

A lot of my work is business portraiture for PR and Media companies and this job was no different – well actually it was. I had 1 hour to capture 5 different images of the new Global Sales Director of one of my clients. The job was booked through the PR Agency and they had commissioned the Dakota Hotel in Edinburgh for the job. To get a head start, I arrived about an hour before my client was due to find locations, set up equipment and prepare for his arrival.

The brief from the client was that this had to be a very strong business portrait, this is a very senior member of the team worldwide and the picture had to convey his position and responsibility:

 

This final shot was the lead shot in the company magazine. Dramatic side lighting conveys a sense of power.

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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.