I am sooo excited to be able to share these images! My largest commercial job to date was shooting for the photography retailer Firstcall Photographic! Check out their newly updated website HERE.
I really love working with businesses so to have the opportunity to create images for a business that is as mad about it photography (and film photography no less) as I am was doubly awesome!
The brief was to create some product and lifestyle images for their new website as well as the catalogue and other marketing materials.
Firstcall are a major supplier in the education sector as well to the general public, using this as the inspiration for the whole shoot I came up with the idea of a sequence of images which would hang together based on the theme of a person going on a learning journey through each stage of the photographic process - from shooting, developing and printing.
For the shoot I hired a local venue ‘the room’ at almondbury - it was the perfect location with some lovely natural light and a large, clean work space it’s in a beautiful secluded spot just on the edge of Huddersfield, check them out HERE.
To help us tell our narrative I contacted a couple of models who I could trust to do a great job - I’ve worked with Jess and Becca on a few different shoots now and I knew that they’d be perfect for this project, in fact it’s fair to say that once I’d settle on the theme for the shoot I had them both in mind right from the outset and they did not disappoint! Check out Jess’s portfolio HERE and Becca’s HERE. Thank you both for being totally awesome on this shoot!
A big thank you also to my friend Ruth for assisting me with the shoot, your eye for detail and skill with lighting is second to none!! Check out Ruth’s amazing photography portfolio HERE
I enjoyed every aspect of this shoot and I’m very pleased with how the final images came out - I think I am most happy with the set of images which show Jess at work in the ‘Darkroom’ this required some creative thinking and forward planning to create the sense of being in a real Darkroom - which I think we did, in fact if I hadn’t mentioned it maybe you wouldn’t have noticed…. DOH! ;)
The other stars of the show are some of my very own film cameras - in particular the Nikon F2 cuts a very fine figure in our little photo narrative!
I must give a special mention to ‘Photography Backdrop Club’ where i purchased the amazing wood effect backdrops that add so much character to some of the product images, I was really pleased with the results - I can definitely recommend their backdrops, in fact I like them so much that if you click on this link HERE you can get yourself a tasty 15% discount - sweet!
That awkward moment you forget that you don’t have a warehouse for storing products for shoots… my living room after taking delivery of all the items to be photographed!
This shoot provided me with my biggest commercial challenge to date - from developing the creative concept, to planning the shotlist and just the simple logistics of getting all the images shot within the timescale - I absolutley loved the process, to be able to bring all of this together and to give the client a set of images that they too can be proud of gives me immense joy.
It has been a real pleasure to work with Firstcall Photographic and it gives me great joy to see the final results of their website at last!! If you have a business or creative project that you think would benefit from my involvement then please do get in touch!