Sir Michael Caine – The great London actor – 6 times Oscar nominated, Knighted, A legend.
Those eyes have seen a great deal of life. On first glance they look sad, then look again… Sir Michael Caine Or Maurice as he has always prefered to be called, is a “bloody funny bloke”… We have rarely laughed so much in as short a time, both the studio assistants were crying with
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Nikon D4 Review – The wrong camera, too late – 16mp -1080p 30 HD video – ISO 12000 – XQD? – is that it? V Canon 5D , Hasselblad H4D, Pentax D645
No camera will make you a professional photographer. Never the less we have been waiting to see the D4 for a long time, was it worth the wait? In a word: No, not on your nelly.* (*London slang for no never!) Shooter 1 got his hands on the new Nikon D4, the latest incarnation of “top of
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Image Manipulation. The best retouching is sometimes an art, but it can go too far.
This Photographic retouch took about 16 hours @ £100 ph, it is about as high a quality of professional retouching as you can get, not just because the work goes down to pore and fabric level, not just that the original image file was of huge pixel quality, but also because there are a million
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Daniel Craig Portrait Photograph – Life, Love and Film Career after James Bond, all in one look.
Shooter One photographed Daniel Craig recently, as a clash of two amazing talents we knew this image was going to have a confrontational quality well beyond Daniel’s intense gaze. Most of the still images of the actor to date have been massively disappointing, some of the very best photographers have consistently failed to capture the
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Measurements, ratios & dimensions of A Paper Sizes A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9
I am always forgetting the sizes for A paper, this is so annoying that I keep a small chart on the print cutting table so when I am ordering frames for an exhibition or display items for conferences or retail display etc. Nothing special, i can often remember them all, but it saves time and
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Website Photography – presenting artists to the commercial world
We recently accepted a commision to do a photographic documentary for a bespoke terracotta pottery, this company produces work for the royal family, the finest stately homes and gardens in the country, they export their production all around the world, and are one of the worlds biggest ceramic exporters to Japan (the nation that probably
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Location Scouting for filming & Photography – An iPhone Android App Idea -
We are looking for photographic Locations all the time, the search is endless and mostly fun. But it could be more productive… Sometimes we are hired as location scouts without any filming or photography component, just because of our expert knowledge of London and UK locations, and I guess the fact we get results quickly.
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Watch Gallery Corporate Image: New Photography – Publicity – Business cards – Advertising
We have won a contract to produce a full corporate image for an esteemed but hopelessly 1990′s central London company that sells rare and valuable wrist watches. What you see here below is the test image over laid with our watermark. The bases for the logo is an image of the founders bride to be;
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Product Photography Motorcycle Components
Some of the work of honest photographers is simple fair, but there is Zen in the very smallest task, a pride in doing things properly and then some. Some jobs are just the most basic of photography’s labours, and we love these little bits of work, they are the things that define a professional.
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Fashion Show as Art
Shooter One went down to the Sorapol London fashion show as a special guest of the designer and the publicist and co creator Dan Lismore. He was just meant to attend as a VIP guest, but he shot a “couple of images” of the show and of the backstage. They are some of the most
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We got this great little Canon to do a little video work, we only had two Canon lenses for it though, a very decent 50mm 1.4 and the wide zoom legend 16-35 2.8 (that cost 50% more than the body itself). After doing the video job and for a couple of weeks, it sat on
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Card Sharing UK: or How people get Sky HD TV, Sports, Sky movies for free using a minidish, the internet and a Dreambox DM800HD and why it is wrong….
This post contains a detailed technical description of how card sharing works as well as how we stumbled onto this activity. Recently did a shot for our long term art photographic project called “Workers”, there is no one paying us, it is a bit of “personal work” as they used to call it. That process
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Product Photography
Oct 2011 We do quite a lot of top quality commercial still photography, most of the time the clients have a very clear idea of the type of glossy image they are hoping for. We almost always do a far better job than the clients were expecting, mainly as we have between us a vast
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Industrial Portraiture
We were recently asked to shoot an “at work” portrait for a series of wonderful craftsmen in there places of work, these images will become a big bold book. We were highly inspired by this large budget commission, not just the joy of being paid the going rate for some professional photography. But we were
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This is one of those truly great lenses, the basic truth about photography is that the equipment does not matter and that any camera or lens that half works will get the image better in the right hands than the best equipment money can buy if the user is uncreative. Of course that is true,
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Music is the food of Love
We have been shooting material for a couple of new CD albums, each at opposite ends of the cost spectrum, but both enjoyable to work on and both involving truly talented performers. The first album is for a male singer guitarist (we can’t say who for now), this is a fantastic multi level project
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We are the official professional photographic consultants to jeangenius.com an online jeans store. We are currently working on the imagery for the new killer website, magazine advertising and some very clever bill boards. This is a major international campaign that we are undertaking, we are making a lot of amazing creative content for a small
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Gym Publicity & Advertising Campaign
We were approached by a bespoke gym frequented by celebrities, the ultra rich and some professional athaletes! They had been to several adverizing agencies and seen ideas from about 12 other professional photographers based in LA, and New York. They were basically very unhappy with the standard of work. They contacted us because they
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Photography in Cuba
Like almost everywhere we have been on location to do professional photography, in thiscase advertising photography, Cuba is full of little possibilities to snatch a little image or two with a compact camera that can (even when set to auto) be in many ways the key photographic evidence of the actual experience of the
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A few shots in the sand…
We are currently involved with making an interesting art film about off road motorcycling or dirt bikes, we are working on something the sector has never seen before: an art film with superlative cinematography and massive production values. mmmm In the process of doing this work, we have been working with some of the
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The Slow Motion Murder of Michael Jackson
We were doing some slow motion stuff and the subject of MJ came up in conversation as an example of a thing happening in a kind of media powered slow motion…. Oh Jacko… Michael Jackson had been living in public since he was ten. He was the prototype for ‘The Truman Show.’ Imagine going through
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Hair Whip Heartbreak
Naomi is 16, and works with us at photography factory when she is off school pretty much as an equal member. Lets be honest age is irrelevant in a great picture, plus she has a sense of the social media space to rival the best new media agency analysts. All the newest trends are always
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Slow Motion Testing Goes Slow
We are taking a while to get our next bunch of slow motion tests under way… They will be worth the wait…
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