Barcelona Photo Blog
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Rejuversen Revisited
Rejuversen Revisited I have done a few jobs for Rejuversen now. This is the second time I visited their research lab at Parc Scientific Barcelona. Things have improved a lot there! The last time I visited I ended up having to clean up the images because the lab looked like a bomb had hit a…
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Ivan The Mysterious
Ivan The Mysterious A couple of months ago I rejoined Soho House and fairly quickly met Ivan in the exercise classes they have. Soho House was always good for meeting new people and potentially new clients. Ivan became a Soho House friend and then a client. Result. He was keen to do shots…
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My Second Short Film
My Second Short Film. About 6 months after my first short film (La Puerta)I decided to do another one. By this time I had joined a new group and again became a little impatient. There was a lot of talk and precious little action. We met most weeks in bar and I find this very…
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Ariadne KIng Photo Shoot
Ariadne King Photo Shoot I have a client for whom I shoot interiors, his daughter Ariadne is a budding actress. He decided it was time she got some professional images for her book. We decided to start at sunrise… yippee… plus the clocks had just gone back so that was an hour less. I woke…
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My First Short Film Script
My First Short Film Script I wrote a short film script and then made a film in 2022 with a film group. It was called La Puerta. My interest is the the logical progression into cinematography from photography. The trouble is that after a couple of weeks I realised everyone was talking. And then…
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Home Studio With Siphokazi Oranuba
Home Studio Siphokazi Oranuba I got back from holiday and the day after had a home studio shoot. It has been a while and still being in holiday mode I was not looking forward to it as much as usual. Plus, these days I kind of prefer to find outdoor locations where I can fake…
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Short Film Contest
A Short Film Contest Several of us in The filmmakers Group decided to participate in a short film contest run by Sala Montjuic. I had an idea that seemed fairly simple but this is rarely the case. I should realise this by now having made a few short films. Also I wanted to use kids… …
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Jordi Cruyff, The Nice Guy
Jordi Cruyff, The Nice Guy Several UK papers contacted me to photograph him. .Basically, the journalists sat with him for nearly an hour and I had 2 choices either twiddle my thumbs or try and get some shots. I set up one light to sidelight him and also the background and flags as I…
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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…
