PHOTOGRAPHY BRISTOL
Here is my Photography Bristol portfolio. I regularly work in Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, Essex, Exeter, Kent, Leicester, London, Oxford, Peterborough, Salisbury, Southampton, Sussex, and the South Coast.
I have clients all over the country, and I am happy to travel. I live 10-15 minutes from the M25, around 5 minutes from the M3, and 25 minutes from the M4 near Reading East, so it is pretty easy for me to get just about anywhere in the UK.
I do sometimes go further North, but generally, it would mean working for a whole day shoot or more, rather than just a few hours. It is always worth contacting me, for a quote; all prices are fully inclusive of mileage charges. However, the only extras will be parking and any congestion charges.
Clifden Suspension Bridge
Bridge Road, Leigh Woods Bristol BS8 3PA – Photography Bristol
This was a tricky job, I was contacted by a large sign company working for Nat West Bank, and they were producing images of local landmarks to go along the walls of their branches.
The brief was to shoot the bridge at as high resolution as it was possible, as it needed to be printed around 13 meters wide, to go along the wall in the local branch. Therefore, the normal camera resolution was unlikely to be high enough, as customers would be viewing it from a close distance.
I shot it in one shot, but I then turned the camera to portrait orientation, with a much longer lens, and shot it in around 10 different sections. I needed to make sure there was plenty of overlap between them.
Amazingly Photoshop stitched the image together perfectly, it just needed a little work on the bottom as the lens had produced some curvature. A heavy tripod is essential for this.
Cube Construction
Oaklands Drive Bristol BS16 1JW – Photography Bristol
I had a call from Cube asking me to do some interior and exterior shots of a complete renovation they were just finishing.
The shots were straightforward enough, as most of the rooms were unfurnished at this stage, although it had obviously been a very large project.
It always takes a little while to go around a property, and to choose the best angles, trying to vary the scale slightly, for example not all shots taken on the same lens. From the same distance, so maybe some wide shots, then some close-ups of the small details.
Hansons UK at Bristol Pride
Castle Park Bristol BS1 3XB – Photography Bristol
Hansons asked me if I could do some PR shots of some of their staff and a couple of their vehicles who were planning to attend the Bristol Pride March.
I arrived early at the park to meet the Hanson team, which was just as well, as it was a short while the park was completely full of people.
Luckily the two drivers were able to get through the police barriers and park the two lorries at the side of the road outside the park. We were able to get plenty of group shots of their participants with the vehicles in the background.
About 30 minutes later there was just no room to move at all, and I grabbed a few more shots of them with their banners when the march started.
Hill Group Bristol
– Photography Bristol
This was a PR job for the Hill Group, a building company from Essex, as part of a social initiative they are working in collaboration with various local authorities and charities to provide accommodation for homeless people.
The idea is that they provide pre-fabricated units, which are safe secure, and comfortable, and install them on disused land owned by local authorities. The local authority works with a local charity to place people in them.
This was the opening of a new project in Bristol, constructed on spare land that used to be used as a car park, so people from the council, the charity and the company attended the opening.
Hoek Flowers Bristol
– Photography Bristol
Hoek Flowers is a Dutch flower producer, who wanted picture distribution, to accompany an article they were writing about their UK distribution operation.
They were operating out of a warehouse in Avonmouth, just outside Bristol, and they have a delivery of flowers every night from Holland.
I had a call from my client to confirm, that the Lorry was in the UK and due to arrive at the warehouse at around 2.00am in the morning, so I drove to the warehouse on a totally deserted industrial estate.
I met the manager, and lots of small vans started arriving and parking in the road outside, then then the huge articulated lorry arrived, which they unloaded into the warehouse.
The flowers were sorted, and transferred to the small vans, which would deliver them fresh to all the florists in the south of the country for first thing in the morning.
It was a military operation which happens every night.
Parsons Bakery Bristol
– Photography Bristol
Parsons Bakery has many outlets in the Bristol area, and they needed some marketing shots.
The requirements were for images of their products, plus images of the different areas of their production facility.
We started in the production facility, which was one of those problems that you come across in photography, it was not at all well-lit.
Being an industrial unit it had a grey very high ceiling, it was a large open space.
The only real option is to use a little bit of flash, with a softbox over the camera flash on very low power. This is to provide a little bit of fill lighting, then just turn the ISO speed right up till you get an acceptable shutter speed/aperture combination.
Luckily the production shots looked OK and although the high ISO does produce some noise, it doesn’t look unattractive.
The product shots were shot in an upstairs room with conventional studio lighting, so were straightforward.
Great Photography Bristol Locations and surrounding area
There are a lot of great photography Bristol locations itself, and the surrounding areas.
One of the most Iconic is the Clifden suspension bridge and observatory, from the observatory grounds it is possible to get a great view of the Clifden suspension bridge and the river below.
Brandon Hill is one of the oldest parks in Bristol, and in it stands Cabot tower, which you can get wonderful views from if you are prepared to climb the steep steps to the top.
There are some lovely locations around Bristol harbourside and Queens Square, mixing modern and traditional architecture.
Then moving slightly North of Bristol you have the beautiful Portishead Lake and beach.
Of course there are many other stunning locations around Bristol as well, Bath is only 14 miles away, with the Roman Baths, the North Parade and Royal Crescent, and travel around 20 miles north east, and you will find the village of Castle Coombe, probably one of the most picturesque villages in the country.
