Shot a fun lifestyle test for my folio / reel in glorious London sunshine at the Cantelowes Skatepark last week, with lots of help from talented mates Katie Ackerman & Jack Flynn, plus our lovely models. Here’s a couple of taster images from the shoot.
Heres a pic from the lifestyle shoot we did in Camden recently….
An irrational love of trees and sheep mean that I live out in the beautiful english countryside, but loads of my work is in London…. So I’m delighted to now have a full time london base at the super-cool RoofUnit! It’ houses desks full of talented photographers, plus me(!) and a studio… Really looking forward to moving in soon!
David Milligan-Croft is organising an Art Exhibition / Auction to raise funds for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I was more than happy when I was asked to donate a framed print of my Gorilla photograph to the cause. Find out more information here and here. The auction is tonight in Manchester. Its a great project and I hope they raise lots of money!! :::: UPDATE over £5000 raised!
Here’s a little behind the scenes snap of us working away on a great little lifestyle photography shoot at The Diner in Camden. We’re starting to combine shooting motion tests whilst on personal projects, look out for the shots and a reel soon!
I had a new portfolio made last year by the lovely Cathy Roberts in London. I’m just getting round to pimping it around agencies and clients, so thought I’d show some pictures here too. I’ve got a Lifestyle book and a Portrait book, plus a swanky iPad folio with some other work, projects and video on, using the great foliobook iPad app. Its quite rare these days to get my book called in by clients, but its a lovely thing to see all the work on paper! I’m looking forward to getting the books out there…. If anyone wants to take a look, get intouch!
My mate Natasha Freeman has got herself a sparkly new blog! With suspiciously good taste in wordpress themes, she presents delicious unmissable delights, such as me walking backwards (see above!)… Natasha is a very talented artdirector / producer / stylist based in London. Defo check her work out here!
Here’s a bit of colour to get away from all the Black & White’ness on this blog recently!!
I shot at a great recording studio, Monochrome Productions, and here’s an early preview of some of the retouched shots…
Here’s a quick behind the scenes vid I shot with a little FlipVideo on a recent Advertisng Shoot job for the lovely people at SFR / Leg in Paris. I’ll post the shots up soon!
Paris Shoot / BTS from Simon Winnall on Vimeo.
Here’s a recent snap of Karl…
Made a nice change to shoot some Black & White work whilst on a recent project in East London…
Been buying a load of BW film and old cameras from eBay so expect plenty more! I can almost smell the nostalgic aroma of developing chemicals of the darkroom!!!
Styling & ArtDirection by the lovely Natasha Freeman
I completed a lovely business shoot for brand Amadeus with agency Viva | Aspire this spring. Great client, creatives, crew & cast!
A quick out-take from today’s shoot in London…
Here’s a lifestyle shot from a commercial job last month…
A shot from today, runner Kate…
I shot another little lifestyle test in a local recording studio. Again, I’m experimenting with a slightly different colour grading technique that I think really works with this image. Thanks to the model Louise…
I shot some new lifestyle snaps for my book and for Getty Images in a rather lovely apartment in Camden.
I’ve been working on a different style of colour grading with these too!
I was really delighted and more than a little surprised that my shot above from the vintage snapshot project won best image at the SUN AWARDS last night in Manchester. I must say a big thanks to Natasha, Hannah and ‘The Wife’ for their help with the shoot! Location was at Vintage Vacations.
The SUN AWARDS (shot up north) are a great collection of work from Non-London based photographers, Ed, Doug and the team do a wonderful job running the show!
We recentley shot a little lifestyle photography test with my friend Natasha Freeman in my parents lovely garden. Models were from the ever helpful Alan Sharman Agency.
Finished this fun little image recently, shot in wonderful Kenya where me and wife got married…