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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, ...

Smith’s Dock

Jan 01, 2020

Smith's Dock is a thriving modern coastal apartment community in North Shields, just a stone's throw from the water. We were commissioned to photograph the neighbours, the traders and some of the people that make the area a nice place to call home. Beautiful light, lapping water, contemporary design and a warm welcome make this a special part of the world to live or work. A combination of portrait photography, architectural photography and landscape photography skills were needed to ...