Studio diary of Fareham, Hampshire based photographer - Mike French
We are currently shooting some work at 1000 Lakeside for one of our commercial clients, who is in the process of refitting an office for a national company. 1000 Lakeside is a prestigious office space in Cosham just north of Portsmouth, Hampshire which is rapidly filling with companies.
On Friday afternoon I went up to Somerset House for London Fashion Weekend to shoot the catwalk shows. I once again had an accredited pass to the catwalk shows and was looking to get some great images of the clothes and of course the models. Each catwalk show was divided into four set of clothing – three different looks, and the entire Betty Jackson collection and the show was repeated in it’s entirety.
I met up with Harriet at Hill Head beach to take some headshots for her. Harriet is a an acting school up in London and needed a promotional headshot, specifically to place on to Casting Call Pro a web directory of actors and actresses looking for roles in film, theatre and TV.
We spent today at 1000 Lakeside in North Harbour, Portsmouth at an AQ Networking – connecting for business event. We were working for the organiser Laura Swetman capturing some PR images for her business and also had our own exhibitor stand in one of the offices which we had transformed into a studio space
Earlier today we covered a business seminar event at the Regus offices in Whitely for AQ Networking for Business. Capturing images of the seminars and speakers, the exhibition area and some of the networking taking place. These images are planned to be used on the website and for promotional purposes for future events.
One of my clients from earlier this year returned for another portrait session today. This time it was for a business portrait.
Commercial photography shoot today at a leisure club in Hampshire. As well as the bar, restaurant and reception area I also shot the squash and tennis courts, weights room, gym, fitness/dance studio, steam room, and the snooker room.
We have just completed a piece of commercial photography for a Hampshire based sports clothing company. The company is updating their website and wanted us to photograph their latest range of cricketing apparel, and so we have been shooting tops and trousers, cricket jumpers and blazers, and some caps.
or many social photographers this signals the end of the wedding season, and a time to wind down. For many others though this is the busiest period of the year – even allowing for a hectic summer schedule of weddings and other work. We are definitely not winding down. Contained in the post are some of the key dates and deadlines for the rest of the year.
A Fareham school commission us for some images for internal usage, and today we went onsite and did the commercial photography.
I had the opportunity to work up at London Fashion Weekend today on an official photographers pass and so travelled up from Hampshire to photograph the catwalk shows and models.
On Sunday I had the great pleasure to work with Kalm Kitchen Caterers from Guildford at the Gate Street Barn for the wedding of Katy and Rob. It is rare for me to single out another company I have worked with at a venue, and my blog post about the wedding which is on it’s way will cover the excellent venue, florist and DJ as well. However Kalm Kitchen were exceptional on the day and I just wanted to call them out for it.
Today was a commercial job. I was doing the PR photography for the Arundel Community Partnership in West Sussex as they celebrated the opening of the new mooring and fingerposts in Arundel with special guest Ben Fogle, TV presenter, celebrity and adventurer.
This evening we covered the PR photography for the Lee-on-the Solent Tennis and Squash club’s squash open evening. Organised by club pro Tim Vail (England mens racketball no2) the format was similar to the tennis open day we covered back in the summer with Pat Cash in attendance. This time however, Daryl Selby the England mens racketball no1 and highly ranked England squash player was the star attraction.
Yesterday I provided PR photography to Eclipse Archery who had organised a sponsored archery shoot in North Waltham, Hampshire in aid of Help for Heroes. The images were provided in an online gallery for the competitors to view and I know that Phil is planning to have this event covered in some of the relevant magazines, and press releases supported with my photography.
