Barcelona Photo Blog
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Home Studio Shoot – Hugo
Another home studio shoot. Photographing people in a home studio can be a rewarding and challenging endeavor, Hugo arrived and was nervous. This is very common, portraits shoots are as much about psychology as technique. It is good to have your technique refined so you don’t even think about it. Get to know your subject:…
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Kiera Walsh, Lioness and Barca Player
Kiera Walsh, Lioness and Barca Player The Sunday Times to the rescue… one of the Lionesses, Kiera Walsh, now plays for Barcelona FC and I got the chance to photograph her. The job took a lot more emailing and arranging than is normal. The deadline of a Christmas publication, and my first flight out of…
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Another Magic Fountains Shoot
Return to the Magic Fountain About a week after doing a corporate portrait shoot outside I got another inquiry. Murat Uslu wanted a mix of shots but doing indoors and outdoors in an hour is not so feasible. Apart from setting up the studio you are going to need at least half an hour jus…
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Looking to refine my Corporate Portraits
Corporate Portraits? I feel the need to experiment. A large amount of my work of late is corporate portraits and the vast majority of these are headshots against white backgrounds. Now studio style photography is fine and would be awesome if I had a proper full size studio. But given the choice I still prefer…
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OOH Capital
Bloody hell a paid job, thanks OOH Capital. Post-Covid is still proving to be difficult. Work is not back to its normal level. This job with OOH Capital is pretty typical of what was common pre-pandemic. A set of headshots and a group shot or 2. We were working at the Almanac hotel just…
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Another Short Film
So, another short film. I decided to return to the Model Management site. The first time I used it I got around 30 contacts. Maybe 2 of these had potential. In the end only one had any merit. The second attempt was pretty much the same. This time it was a girl who wanted to…
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Jarrod Lee
Jarrod Lee Fitness Instructor I get a call from Jarrod Lee (Instagram) about a portrait shoot I thought ‘Well that’s something at least.” The summer was very quiet regarding work. September did not exactly prove busy either. Luckily he decided to go for something a bit more involved that would last half a day. Jarrod…
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Arty Teeshirts BHS
Arty Teeshirts BHS My friend Viviana now designs arty teeshirts. She is in the fashion business and to destress and for fun started painting little paintings she was soon selling on the internet. Through her connections from work in China, she found a client who wanted to put her artwork onto tee-shirts. This is where…
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Confesiones, a short film
How I came to make confesiones, a short film based on the monologue by Carolina Tejeda Stuck in Barcelona for the summer I was looking for something to do as there was no work. I wanted to try some things with a cinema camera and lens so put a casting up on Model Management.…
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The Great Outdoors
Yes, finally a corporate headshot session in the great outdoors! Barcelona is quite hot (bearable) and sticky (less so), so… not having to set up a home studio was a nice change. Giuseppe wanted this and i was more than happy to oblige. I remembered near me there is a small park behind the library.…
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My First Film (Part 1)
During Lock-Down I decided to learn more about film making and decided I wanted to make my first film. This wasn’t it. Like most people who start out doing something new there is a tendency to be delusional and say to yourself ‘how hard can it be?’ Of course I have made other films and…
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Working with Humaans!
The Client was Humaans. After a few quiet months a decent job! and for Humaans. Not a typo, its a company name. You can only rely on foreign companies to pay anything half way decent, the local market is basically for pocket money. The job for Humaans came via a recommendation from a mother…
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That Day on Montseny
The Montseny Hike Too many months of lock-down. Then a window opened, for a while, and you could almost live a normal life. My oldest friend by sheer coincidence ended up moving to Barcelona as well. His son was playing at a football academy . Now Brett loves a hike and occasionally I go along. …
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Football Academies Photo Shoots
Barcelona is famous for its football academies. In fact, youth teams come here from places like the UK because of the chance to play on the Camp Nou pitch. This I know because several years ago a very large group (50 youth teams) turned up… and it was hell. I wrote about it at the…
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JC & The Echo Chamber
JC & The Echo Chamber I met JC from JC & The Echo Chamber at Soho House when I was a member. He asked me if I would do some photos of them whilst they shot a video. This was the start of a series of shoots I would do. Publicity work, rehearsals, and…
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Decor Video Editing
Decor Video Editing A job for Decor. During lockdown, I decided to learn more about video editing and postproduction. I had started with Apple’s Final Cut Pro, but after being burned when they dropped Aperture, I decided to switch to Davinci Resolve. I have often been asked to shoot videos on jobs and decided with…
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Motocross in Olvan
Wilkinson Motocross Racing Team in Olvan Though most people could not travel in early 2020, some people including pro sports types could. So one day we made a trip into the middle of the Catalan Countryside to film Motocross. Well, a special kind of motocross that involves special bikes with sidecars. It is a niche…
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Albert Ferrer, Me and My Medals
Albert Ferrer ‘Chapi.’ The Times Newspaper. Though Covid has affected work terribly I did get a couple of jobs from UK newspapers which tend to be interesting and relatively well paid jobs. Albert lives out of Barcelona in a small town called Masnou. I went with my friend Brett who has a car and a…
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Pento; 50 Portraits in Four Hours
Pento event at the Arts Hotel. As I mentioned in another post there was a brief hiatus in the ongoing Covid saga that allowed me to get some real work. Another one of these clients was Pento who held a quite large event over several days at the Art Hotel. They contracted me to go…
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Mailersend Brought Back the Good Old Days
Mailersend and Mailerlite event photography. It’s fair to say that Covid hammered the availability of work, as most of the real work I get comes from foreign clients. During a period when things relaxed for a while companies based in the northern parts of Europe made their escape to sunnier climes and for a short while…
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Kuala Lumpur, A City After the Storm
The humidity after the storm was overwhelming; I soon came to learn that Kuala Lumpur is always a city after the storm. The taxi from the airport took an age, the traffic jam and the torrential rain reduced everything to a crawl; All you could see out of the windows was an en endless smudge…
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partycasino saved me from Halloween
A late job with partycasino saved me from fancy-dress hell. I hate fancy dress, even as a kid and Halloween, it never floated my boat. The event I was photographing was kind of themed but, no ghouls in sight. You deal directly with a corporate communications companies, which is the normal way of doing things. …
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Jordi Petriz, from Telescope to Microscope
The beach seemed as good as a place as any to start the job. Jordi Petriz was the subject.The theme was where he liked to go when not in the laboratory… I really was hoping to spend time in the laboratory, the potential for over-the-top lighting and all that tech. Hey ho. The client was…
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Beach Sports in Barcelona
I came to a conclusion a while ago that sports photography might be an ideal speciality for me. It has the advantages of fashion, hopefully without some of the problems. That is a subject for another day! Basically, you are photographing people who look good doing interesting things and one would hope wearing colourful or dramatic clothing.…
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Home Studio; Cost Effective Portraits
I would love to have a studio. But I don’t particularly want to spend my life working in one; I still prefer the idea of environmental portraits. But, at times the ease of a studio is very seductive. So, home studio or even pop-up studio, call it what you will. If the results are good…
