Visual Branding
How I approached a series of portraits from a visual branding perspective. Spotify states: Any artist who thinks they can build a career just on the merit of their sound would be wise to take a glance back at history. From Elvis’s hypnotic hips to the Rolling Stones’ impudent tongue logo to Madonna’s outré Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bras, […]
What is photography?
We all take photographs but what is photography? And would understanding what photography is, help us to make better pictures and identify where photographs can be used to best advantage? To paraphrase Stephen Shore: Photography is an analytical discipline. Photographers start with the messiness and complexity of the world and simplify the jumble through analysis […]
Thinking Photography
Great photographers are also editors – they are always thinking photography “I don’t just take photographs, I think.” Don McCullin Storytelling requires thinking photography Thinking photography is about about making considered decisions from the outset of a project so as to end up with the story you want to tell. Like all stories, documentary is […]
Looking for visual interest
Last year I was taking photographs for a client (Pilon) who operates in the Social Housing Sector providing construction and refurbishment services throughout the London and the South East. The challenge, as always, is to find visual interest in situations that might not present the most glamorous of subjects. Business Photography can be visually interesting In addition to […]
Portrait Photography – a guide for people in front of the camera
Portrait photography is a broad discipline. A portrait is a portrayal of a person, and a portrayal is defined as a depiction of the subject matter, which could be in the form of a picture, performance or paragraph. What is portrait photography? In portrait photography, the portrait is a true likeness of the person being […]
Writing great photography proposals
Getting photography proposals accepted requires time, effort and imagination. The worst photography proposals I’ve read are the ones that are clearly templates written with chunks of text that are cut and pasted. All too often the name of another client appears, the grammar or tense changes mid-way through, or the proposal just doesn’t make sense […]
Film Noir Photography – 6 Images Analysed
In this article, I’m going to analyse 6 film noir images. But before I do that, let me just clarify what is unique about this particular style of photography… What is Film Noir Photography? Film Noir describes a genre or style of movies that enjoyed their heyday during from the 1940s and 1950s. They were […]
Visual Storytelling for Photographers
One of the most universal visual stories is a series of images that read left to right, starting with an ape bent over and finishes with a man walking upright. The story is of evolution, and it is so familiar to us that we don’t need any text to explain it, the images are sufficient. […]
