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Indian Summer

Jan 13, 2021

Back in the warmth of summer we ventured to the beautiful Peak District to shoot Royal Enfield's latest motorcycle, the Meteor 350, in it's pre-production guise. A "recce" mission the day before the shoot was essential to find perfect locations for a busy day ahead, which also involved sharing the bikes and riders with a film crew and drone pilot in a monster pick-up truck. The crew's work should be familiar to most as they often spend their time filming cars for Top ...

Women in Engineering

Sep 08, 2020

International Women in Engineering Day is a celebration that raises awareness of the profile of women who are involved in the challenging, creative and deeply satisfying world of engineering. This year's strapline being "shape the world" gives an idea of the power and enthusiasm behind the thinking.In the Northeast of England we just happen to have some of the most innovative and forward thinking engineering companies, not only in the UK, but also in the world. Our long-standing clients, ...

Green Scream

Feb 27, 2020

This was a fun job to shoot: Our friends at TV production company Reproduction were filming commercials for Jersey Telecom at Stonehills Studios in Gateshead and asked us to get involved with shooting the stills which would work in harmony with the TV advertisements that they were shooting. Over the years we have photographed many similar projects where we shoot a series of stills to match what is being filmed, so that ultimately the client has both moving and ...

London calling....

Feb 25, 2020

We were given the opportunity by our client GRAHAM to shoot two exciting architectural projects in the south east, the first one was a very striking looking new building at the Thames Valley Science Park and the second a rejuvenated building in central London that had previously been unused for 10 years. The new building features a steel and glass exterior which changes appearance as the steel ages and oxidises, while the older building looks traditional on ...

Fluent in Lighting

Feb 01, 2020

Hacel Lighting are a valued client of our’s and have been for some time now. Hacel design and manufacture high-end architectural lighting products from their base in Newcastle upon Tyne and they have a very sharp eye when it comes to attention for detail. The Marketing team call us when they require studio photography or location photography of their lighting installations. The studio photography often calls for all sorts of set building solutions, multiple exposures, macro ...

Until machines make themselves....

Jan 15, 2020

This was a particularly nice project to get our teeth into: One of the UK's most exciting technology companies, Tharsus, underwent a full rebrand and moved into new production, design and office facilities, which were then visited by the Secretary of State, Liz Truss. All elements of the rebrand and move needed to be photographed to standards that they set themselves; absolute perfection with nothing left to chance. Our brief was split into 3 elements, portraiture, ...