Road trip shoot for Audi

This was the start of our road trip shooting portraits for Audi , me Dan Ross  who was assisting and Peter Adams our journalist set off for our first location Glencoe where we were shooting Ian McConnell , a local mountain rescuer , the storm clouds gathered as we got to our location and the rains and winds whipped up a storm ... Soaked to the bone we carried on and headed south , 5 hours later we arrived in Yorkshire .... Up early to our next shot , wind and rain again , it was at this point I began to regret using the Bron Sattelight .. It's like a sail in the wind ! Shooting a racehorse vet and car in a shot was a lot to think about at 9.am !then we were off again to RAF Scampton the home of the Dambusters Squadronand now to the Red Arrows , here we were shooting a portrait of  one of Engineers , it was brilliant to have a look at the planes up close , everyone was really helpful . 

It's looking like were off again on Wednesday ! 

Monte Carlo RWD Tour

 Ive Just come back from a 4 day shoot travelling from Epsom to Monte Carlo with the RWD Tour Team , I must be one of the few people to have travelled all the way from the UK to Monaco backwards ... It was a fun shoot shooting mostly car to car , with a 300mm and a 24 to 70mm , gorgeous cars and sumptuous food stops at great hotels . My personal highlights were being at the top of Mt Vantoux for sunrise and also being able to shoot this very rare jaguar Ctype , one of only around 50 left . This was a great trip and thanks so much to my assistant Tom Griffiths who worked seriously hard to keep everything in order ...

Sam Barker - Seamless Spotlight Photographer

Sam Barker - Seamless Spotlight Photographer

Equis & Silks

Ive just finished my latest personal project Equis &Silks , check it out on my projects page on www.sambarkerphoto.com , I spent a day at Sandowne Racecourse in the Jockeys area shooting each jockey just after he had finished his race , it was a great day and the banter between them all was great , they are a really hardy bunch and tough as nails , I then went down to Fergul Obriens stables for a very early start and shot some of his racehorses . Using a large amount of lighting which was great fun to build #fb

Early start

Myself and Tom headed down to Fergul Obriens stables in the West Country , our plan to shoot Ferguls Race Horses. We had a great morning down there and il be showing the results in the next few days ,was a really good shoot . The horses were on the whole brilliantly behaved , and the only issues we had was with the sound of the flash . The actual flash itself is too quick for the horse to see which was a great relief !

I havent blogged for sometime ,its been a really busy time with a studio move a long trip to the States a family birth and all the humdrum of life going on , but now Im back in blogging business, this is'nt a shot of me looking thoughtfully out onto the streets of New York but a shot I did for a client out there , , shot on the quite brilliant Fuji X pro1. Ive just started to shoot on this camera and have been startled by the results , il be posting some more about it in the coming days , in low light its brilliant at picking up shadow detail , its incredibly sharp and is really great fun to use #fb

Mac surgery

Major surgery on the mac today , upping Ram and going solid state so the New Blad will fire seamlessly. Job done !