Studio diary of Hampshire photographer - Mike French
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After a lot of preparation and planning in the run up to the event today marked the opening day of the British Colleges Sport 34th National Championships taking place at the magnificent sporting facilities on the Bath University campus and at two other venues nearby. Over 2500 competitors took part in 13 sports over three...
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.
Pat Cash returned to Lee-on-the-Solent for the tennis club’s centenary open day. Joined this year by Dan Lobb from ITV’s Daybreak and recently Loose Women, Dan was previously a UK top 20 professional tennis player, and played country tennis with the club’s Director of Tennis Chris Wilkinson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yesterday I covered the Open Day for the Lee-on-the-Solent tennis and squash club here in Hampshire. The club were looking to use the images for PR and promotional purposes and also to have as event coverage for the visitors to the club to be able to look at online very shortly after the day. Starting...
