Studio diary of Hampshire photographer - Mike French
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We have just completed a product photography commission for a local wedding vendor – who are in the process of updating the images for their website and marketing materials. This Hampshire commercial photography job was to create images of their wedding stationery on a clean background but with some additional colour and context from some beautiful wedding flowers supplied by Lynda Robson at Exclusively Weddings.
I spent yesterday morning in the company of Lynda Robson of Exclusively weddings at her Southampton based workshop for a corporate shoot. Lynda was looking for some new PR images of her working, preparing some of her beautiful floral pieces and arrangements.
Just before Christmas we were asked by Little Media the publishers of Baby Hampshire magazine to support an article they were having written on siblings. This magazine editorial was going to run over all of the Spring issues in the house – Baby London, Baby Surrey and my local issue – Baby Hampshire. They all go on sale today on the 15th February, which is why I can now share the images with you.
This morning we completed a commissioned editorial shoot for a series of high-end lifestyle magazines. With no available images it was down to us to create a set of photographs that fitted the brief and gave the designer variety and layout options. Working closely with a senior member of the publishers staff who provided art direction we brainstormed some scenarios and scenes, and then sourced some models to feature in the shoot and a location.
Todays commercial photography job was a PR shoot for a Lee-on-the-Solent leisure business. Images from today are going to be used in press releases, are likely to be featured in the local papers, on their website and of course added to the archive for the next 100 years celebration.
I spent the afternoon on a commercial photography commission in Winchester, Hampshire with the team at The Place For Mortgages (TPM).
This morning I photographed an innovative process cooling unit for an Eastleigh based company. The unit was in the process of final assembly before being sent to a customer and my client was looking for some high quality images of this new unit for sales and marketing materials (website, brochure etc).
I photographed some industrial units in Fareham over two periods of today. The client is the owner of the site, and they were looking for updated images of some of the units to update their brochure and website. All the images were taken on high resolution digital capture equipment using specialist architectural lenses to maintain the verticals and correct perspective.
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.
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.
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.
A Fareham school commission us for some images for internal usage, and today we went onsite and did the commercial photography.
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.
