Category archives: Client Albums
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- How to show more than just the product in your commercial photography.
It’s a sweeping generalisation, I’ll admit, but here’s the single biggest difference between what you get from a design agency and a Preston commercial photographer, and someone from the office who’s got the latest iPhone:[...]
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- Marilyn Monroe, Stacey Solomon, a Nolan Sister and Captain Jack Sparrow. Photo shoots aren’t usually like this, but the process remains the same.
Event photography is a lot like singing a song on stage. There’s timing, the requirement to ‘perform’ – to get out there and take the shots that co[...]
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- Which is better for your commercial photography? There’s only one way to find out...
In my last post, I discussed how people can help bring architectural or facilities photography to life. But which people?
In the school prospectus photography discussed in my last post, it was the students [...]
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- Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to shoot facilities in a way that engages.
Back in April, I visited Hope Academy in Warrington and spent the day putting together shots for the school’s new prospectus. I was there to capture the life of the school in a number of areas includin[...]
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- If you’re updating your look, make sure the portrait photography that sells you and your business is updated too.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve taken portrait shots for Stephen Bayliss, singer, songwriter, performer and all round lovely chap. On every one of those occasions his [...]
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- Hiring your own commercial photographer can make all the difference to your website and business literature. Here’s why.
Hands up if you’ve got stock photography on your website. A smiling lady wearing a headset? A man and woman looking smart and business-like and staring into the middle dist[...]
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- MyTime Active’s strapline is ‘Feel Amazing’. I’ve been capturing the lifestyle photography that shows what they mean.
You can say that what you do makes people feel amazing until you’re blue in the face, but nothing is as effective as showing it. That’s why MyTime Active asked me to capture r[...]
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- Exploring the imagery that sells your school.
Every Lancashire lifestyle photographer has their own particular favourite topics – the things they just know are going to look terrific before they ever take the camera out of its case. One of my favourites is school prospectus photography, and l[...]
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- Whilst you've got me, use me...
Returning to visit past clients is a pleasingly regular occurrence. There are, I'm happy to say, plenty of organisations that, when the time comes to launch a new product or service or promote their latest news, award or social activity, give me call.
But t[...]
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- For any social organisation, it's not the nuts and bolts of what you do that counts - it's who you are and the difference you make that matters.
MaxMedia is a Lancashire creative agency that specialises in the social sector. I've worked with them on a number of occasions and this time the bri[...]
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- How “acting natural” can suck the life out of your school prospectus photography.
Even before they hit the age for selfies, kids are naturals on camera – especially when you’re not asking them to stand still and pose.
This week was a perfect example of that. Mytime Active is a national soc[...]
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- PR photography doesn’t get more inspirational.
The businesses and organisations I work with want their commercial photography to create a reaction in the viewer. They want it to inform or inspire; they want to compel people to find out more, to “click here” or “buy now”.
Today, I’d like th[...]
