I’ve had some prints made from the ‘We Are Loughborough’ series. These are Platinum prints made with a very old school print process by the guys at 139 Printroom. A platinum print uses platinum instead of the traditional silver. Best explained on their website:
“Platinum/ Palladium
Developed by William Willis in 1873, the Platinum Print is, for many, the epitome of photographic printing. Famed for it’s long tonal range and delicate warm colour, a Platinum/Palladium print possesses a luminosity not seen in more contemporary printing processes. ”
Tress in late summer shot in Ruskin Park on my 5x4 camera last year. Yes its film! I still have a bag full of dark slides or plates.. sheets of film to use up on my last hey ho with shooting film.
This photo gets me stirred about the whole Film Vs Digital hoo ha. My take is this. I have shot for most of my career on film and now I ...
We had some fun this week shooting a prosthetic arm for RAPP.
And here is the final result Excema Flare Animation
Our brief was to shoot the progression of an arm inflamed from ezcema as the patient scratched it and it began to heal. As there were several stages to illustrate ...
As I mentioned in the introduction to this post a short while ago, “What do you do?” my commission to shoot Royal Navy recruitment advertisements for Y&R Rainey Kelly in 2003 was far and away the most complicated shoot I have ever done. There were 6 print ads that we shot all over the UK starting on the Isle of Skye in Scotland and including the beaches of Cornwall, the bridge of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth and finishing on the canals of Camden in London. In this post I am going to show how we took the ‘Navy Sub’ from a line drawing to a finished ad.
On paper the ideas were overwhelming. 6 print ads that would appear in mens magazines over several months. Each advertisement included multiple scenarios representing real life situations that you might ...
