Our research and development team (that’ll be me) have been working hard on new lighting and shooting techniques for my Teesside location portrait sessions.  This shot of Owen was taken this morning in a wooded area on the outskirts of Norton, Stockton on Tees.  I had my sandbags holding down my lighting stands, thanks to Ophelia (the hurricane, not my new assistant).  This new technique makes Owen pop in the panoramic frame. I’ve also got a couple of other new ideas that I’ll be posting over the next couple of weeks. Going out on a portrait shoot armed with only a …

10th June 2011, I’ve just finished photographing a wedding and I head over to Seaton Carew at 7.30pm to meet up with John McGough and a young lad that he’s been bending my ear about for weeks.  We’d stand and chat at the Crathorne Hall wedding open evening events and John would tell me about this talented young lad who could fall out of bed and go straight into recording a fantastic vocal, I knew if John was impressed then he must be special.  I parked my car on the seafront and wandered over to John, who then introduced me …