What Photographers do when they’re not on a Brand Shoot with a client?

As well as doing all the day-to-day tasks of running a business that can take up to 80% of our week, I like to practice and perfect my craft and, on this occasion, I created a still art piece of work using dessert and teaspoons. Each was filled with a different spice: Paprika, Turmeric, Rosemary, Basil, Oregano, Minced Garlic, Crushed Chilli, and Sesame Seed. In between the spoons were fresh ingredients: Ginger, Chilli, Lemon Grass, Garlic Cloves, Thyme, Parsley, and Basil. All were placed on a dark grey marble effect background and I used natural light to light the subject. I then entered this photo into an online photographic competition called GuruShots. 

GuruShots is an online platform for all photographers at all levels to enter their photos into various competitions and there are over 50 different challenges each month. When you join GuruShots there are 9 levels of expertise, they are Newbie, Rookie, Challenger, Advanced Veteran, Expert, Champion, Master, and Guru. I am currently at the Champion level. Each time you enter a competition you gain votes from other people that have entered the competition and you are also able to vote on other people’s work as well. The Challenge I entered was called Creative Still Life, for this particular challenge there were over 120,000 entries, and I received the award of Guru’s Top Pick Winner, my work was published in a digital magazine/exhibition that covered America and Asia. I was very proud to receive this award for my work and I’m always looking for the next project to create and shoot.

Below created by myself for a clients kitchen is another example of Creative Still Life, five peppers on a piece of grey slate. I had this image processed by Rydal Photography’s professional printers Loxley Colour and is nestled between an acrylic face-mount and a slim aluminium panel with a black core.

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Personal Branding Photography shoot for Mawgan Stott in Exeter

It was an exciting personal branding photoshoot with our client Mawgan Stott in Exeter in the late Autumn of 2022. The location was The Bootlegger cocktail bar, where she will be appearing on Friday, 17th February. We took about an hour to obtain all the images Mawgan was looking for, which included a couple of dress changes along the way. She was the perfect model but with a difference, as we enjoyed an impromptu private performance towards the end of the session.

The Bootlegger Exeter is an independent cocktail bar and live music venue at 162-163 Fore St, Exeter. EX4 3AT (located behind St Olave’s Church). The entrance to The Bootlegger bar is via the passageway alongside the church leading to a flight of stone steps to their front door. The bar has a great atmosphere, with a stark bulb mood-lighting theme featuring the main bar with barstools to the left and customers’ seating area to the right. Then halfway on the right is the opening to the cocktail bar and open mic stage, where we situated the photoshoot.

Mawgan is a professional vocalist, performer, and vintage singer with an impressive repertoire of numbers (songs) to entertain, whether they be classic Jazz, pop favourites or some old-fashioned blues/rock songs that are our favourites.

It’s good to see our client using the content created from her personal branding photoshoot in Exeter.
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Amano Hotel Covent Garden Branding Shoot

This morning I attended the Amano Hotel in Covent Garden with my client for a Branding Photography shoot of their products that have been installed into each suite throughout the hotel during its recent construction.

The Amano Hotel Covent Garden, is located at the junction of Drury Lane and Russell Street in London, UK, and is a highly appointed 4-star luxury hotel that favours incredible views across London, particularly from the Garden Rooftop Bar seen in the image above. The ambience of this bar, with its skyline views across London needs to be experienced, alongside the welcome of their staff serving Cocktails from their signature range.

My photography below capture the luxury of the hotel suites and the quality of my client’s products that have been installed in each.

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