
Another wonderful newborn baby session in the studio this time with the babies father present as well, allowing me to capture these fine art newborn baby images.
Studio diary of Fareham, Hampshire based photographer - Mike French

I have just finished processing another newborn baby shoot from a few days ago. Another little girl – this time three weeks old. This little one had been in the car for a while as her parents travelled down from Surrey for the shoot, and so we worked quickly to take advantage of the last bits of sleep.

Powdermills Hotel in Battle was the venue for Wednesdays pre-wedding shoot. Helen and Graham are holding their wedding reception at this lovely hotel in the countryside just outside of Battle in East Sussex. This wedding is a third generation referral as I have photographed the weddings of two of Graham’s work colleagues the first back in 2007, and then another in 2008.

Today I covered the PR for the Lee-on-the-Solent Tennis Club on their annual Open Day.
This year both Pat Cash and Andrew Castle visited the tennis club to be part of this well prepared, and executed event.As with last year my brief was fairly straightforward. Capture the day, photograph some PR images of the celebrities with the sponsors and their families, and then shoot the tennis matches.

Once again I will be the official photographer for the Lee-on-the-Solent Tennis Club open day, commissioned by the club to cover the day and to photograph a series of images for them. This year the club has Pat Cash, and Andrew Castle returning to do battle in some exhibition tennis with Chris Wilkinson, the club’s Director of Tennis, and commenter/umpire Matt Chilton also there – it promises to be bigger and better than last years amazing event.
We just completed an executive portrait for a management consulting company based in Whitely near Fareham in Hampshire. The Operations Director visited the studio for a formal business portrait and we quickly created a series of different looks and lighting and some high quality portraits before he left.
Well it is election day, and for the last few weeks we have been receiving election flyers from all of the main parties – Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Labour, and some of the independent candidates and smaller parties. Frankly I have been shocked, and not by some of the policies and promises but the quality of the portrait images, and election campaign images being used by the candidates to promote themselves.