Why should you hire a professional photographer for your business head shots?
Showing some before and after photos using a few people skills to get the best natural image of someone and relax them in front of the camera.
I always enjoy taking photos of buildings, and the spaces they provide. In this case it was several London office / work spaces which had recently been converted to shared use work spaces.
It’s always a great opportunity to really look at the buildings your photographing and understand them and to communicate that in the images.
Ever since I can remember i’ve always been fascinated with the design of cars. I just love the aesthetics of them. The way the look, the emotion they give off, the differences in them, what they say by their looks.
Of course the older cars are more interesting to look at and from a design perspective. To be honest, I really couldn’t care less about the engineering and what’s under the bonnet or how they work. I just love looking at them.
I’ve been photographing classic cars in the same way since 2014 on my phone and posting them to Instagram and calling it #ishootcars. With a bit of time on my hands, I thought i’d have a quick search of my photos on my phone and put together a collection of them. (I don’t think this is all of them, but it is most).
I tend to shoot the cars for this makeshift project when i’m out on my bike or driving around. I’ve been known to pull over and run after a car if it’s really special. Or chase them down in traffic. There are a few rules I set my self for the project, like always shooting from the side. Try to get low down. Usually a car before 1990. Sometimes a car after 1990 if it’s really special or personal to me. Always on my phone.
So there you have it, 6 years of shooting cars and a morning going through my phone.
Hope you’re all keeping safe and sane.
Much love
Adam
What can you do when you only have five or ten minutes to photograph people?
Well I’ve been shooting portraits for a few different educational clients over the years and one thing i’ve learnt is to put people at ease very early on when you need to photograph them to take their portrait.
I’ve got one client who runs lots of different schools, college’s and universities and they like to feature students for their case studies and websites. So we tend to line up a day of photography in order to take as many portraits as possible.
However I tend to only get five or ten minutes with students as we can only drag them out of class and lessons for a very short time. I can also tell you that photographing students who mostly are all very self conscious can be a tricky thing. But if you treat them with respect and talk to them, find out a bit about them and try and make a connection, it can really help. Of course having lots of experience photographing people, knowing your equipment, what makes a good photograph & being a professional photographer helps as well.
So here are 150 portraits of students all taken on location and all taken quickly.
Last months theme for the portraits for my ongoing photography project with Viva Brighton magazine, The Way We Work was ‘care’ so we thought we’d photograph care workers.
So we headed down to the wonderful Martlets Hospice in Brighton & Hove, Sussex to photograph some of the amazing people who work there.
This morning I received this lovely email passed onto me by the magazine:
”I just wanted to pass on a huge thank you to you and Adam for the incredible ‘Way We Work’ Martlets feature in this month’s Viva Brighton – so many people have mentioned it to me and noticed it. All the people in the magazine have asked for extra copies for family and friends (considering they all ‘hate having their photograph taken’ I think that shows Adam’s wonderful talent that everyone is pleased!) We’re also delighted to be in such a wonderful edition – it was quite hard to get any work done when it arrived...
I hope you are all well, best wishes and many, many thanks again.”
It’s always nice getting feedback, but from people who literally change peoples live, it means a lot.
If you’d like to see some more of this photographic project which i’ve been shooting for over five years now, just click this link.
Portraits and profile shots of Guy Parker-Rees is a British illustrator and author of children's books taken in his Brighton studio.
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Dramatic and creative photography of Brighton board game players in the Dice Saloon. The Way We Work, photography project featuring Brighton board gamers from The Dice Saloon playing Dungeons and Dragons as well as other strategy and fun games.
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