Hasselblad

Was at the Canon Pro Photo Solutions show today at the Business Design Centre in London. Whilst there I had a good chat with my good friend Mark, who works as part of the Hasselblad marketing team. He encouraged me to have a play with their H3DII 31 Megapixel Medium Format Digital camera. I've always known that the image quality from medium format is far superior to the 35mm professional body I'm currently using, but I didn't realise by how much until today!

Firstly, there's the image size.... The images are big! Really big! I've posted an image below to show the detail you get. On the left is the full image, and on the right is a 100% crop (click to see it full size)



Then there's the tonal range. The images are so silky it's unbelievable! With really beautiful skin tones and ultra sharp definition.

There's way more info on their website so I won't bore you anymore, but to cut a long story short... I want one!

Dear Santa....... ;)

Max Power Greece : October 2009

Got my work on the cover of the October issue of Max Power in Greece.

New Website : Keeping things Fresh!

It's important to keep things fresh, and because I'd had my previous website design for around 18 months, I thought it about time for a change and revamp!

The first thing I wanted to do, was make the new design instantly different, so opted for white instead of black. One of the criticisms I had of my old site was that there wasn't enough of "me" on it. Commercial clients hire photographers not just on their ability to create consistently good images, but also how they work with others and come across as a person. Based on this, I've added a Bio page and also put an embedded video on the home page to enable clients to build a better idea of who I am and what I'm about.

For the portfolio pages, I wanted to keep that large images, but I didn't want to use flash galleries this time. This is partly because I'm an iPhone user and flash is still currently unsupported.

Finally, to fit in with the new design, I've changed the template for this blog, and also updated my Twitter background.



I'd like to take this opportunity to thank a few people who helped with the new site....

Nick Cannons An awesome designer from my Art College days
Sean McCormack My first port of call for anything Lightroom related
Karen @ Mimique Digital A great webdesigner who helped code my site... she rocks!

Redline : November 2009

The latest issue of Redline magazine is out this featuring some of my work.

A couple of months ago they were giving away free laps of the world famous Nürburgring circuit. I was asked to cover a trip to the Ring to show people using the free laps.

I've also got photos from my coverage of Trax @ Silverstone from back at the beginning of September.