A Man Of Good Hope

A Man Of Good Hope

Ive Just shot the cover for Jonny Steinbergs A man of Good Hope , a terrific book , many thanks to Ahmed for all his help with this .

Here is my original shot that was cropped for the cover . FB

ALLEX STELLJA

Allex Stellja Shoot

I went over to the St Pancras Hotel apartments to shoot Australian model Allex Stellja , Id been thinking about shooting with this cyan and green pallet for a while and when I saw the bathroom I thought brilliant , thats going to work really well here , so we gelled up some of the source lighting and then I used some colour tempreture tells to mix it up and this was the result . FB 

We then set up a slightly different feel in the bedroom , I more filmic feel . FB

Buriers - Dim Half Light (Official Video)

Myself and Leo Williams spent a great evening shooting this Video for Buriers last month , it was shot in singer  James P Honeys flat with friends and band members supplying the cast , we decided to shoot it with just 2 extremely long shots and drift round the room taking in different scenes , It was an interesting challenge sorting unseen multiple lighting set ups in such a small environment whilst trying to get some movement throughout the film as well and timing it all to work within the 1 shot . It got pretty warm in there … FB

Irvine Welsh -The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins….
Irvine's book is just out and I shot the cover , its really nice when you get feed back from the author and Irvine really liked this one …..fb

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From: Irvine Welsh ]
Sent: 08 August 2013 19:43
To: Robertson
Subject: Re: cover

It rocks. It has the darkness, pain and sweat, but the brightness of Miami. Probably the best yet - at least right up there with Skagboys.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Robertson, Robin <RRobertson@randomhouse.co.uk> wrote:

I'm really glad you like it: it was a long day, but we got there in the end...    R.

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From: Irvine Welsh []
Sent: 08 August 2013 19:37
To: Robertson
Subject: Re: cover

I love it! The colours are fucking amazing! Perfect!

What Lies Beneath...

So we headed off to Iceland to shoot a fashion story for Harrods and Mens Health , with the great stylist Eric Down , the idea was to shoot in one of the natural Ice caves under the Vatnajukall Glacier , we arrived on the friday afternoon to do a recce  and climbed up the glacier only to find that the Ice cave was melting , our guide advised us to shoot the whole story there and then , as the cave probably wouldn't be enterable the next day , we could see a steady river building up and flowing through the cave , so we decided to go in and shoot as much as we could , So we loaded a dingy with gear and set off in it on a river under a glacier into an Icecave …. 

It felt brilliant , a real journey into the unknown , 

And as we got further in it opened up into a magical ice world , so we landed the boat which we would later use in the shoot and got to setting up the first shot , clamp

ing lights into the sides of Icerock ,and we shot our first shots 

It was an extremely challenging environment to shoot in with the ice constantly dripping and also chunks falling down into the cave , we manage dot shoot 3 spreads before it became to dark to work in , was a pretty spooky place once it was dark , but It was a good job we shot then as when we returned the next morning we couldn't get into it , it had filled with water , so we ended up shooting the rest of the story on the top of the Glacier , to see the the whole shoot go to my site www.sambarkerphoto.com and into the fashion section . Thanks to all that worked on this especially Tom Griffiths @TomG_Photos for his superb assisting .#fb

F2 freelance photographer profile

A nice article by David Land on my work and freelancing ...

Rain lashed night shooting Icebergs…

We have recently been shooting a job out in Iceland which I will be blogging about in the next couple of weeks when the shoot is out , as always on these trips I wanted to try to shoot a little personal work if time allows , so myself and Tom and our intrepid guide Ronnie set off one stormy night to one of the black beaches on the Southern tip of Iceland ,the plan was to try to light an Iceberg at night on the beach or preferably in the sea… it didn't work out to be as doable as I hoped! … when we arrived at the beach the night was pitch black and we had sheets of horizontal rain lashing straight into our faces , but we endeavoured to try to get a picture , Tom and I started off down to the sea shore through clumps of ice navigating with a head torch but none looked right, they were to small  ,we eventually found one that looked ok so we set up the camera and we then set about lighting it , within seconds the light had blown , it was just too wet,the rain was torrential and the wind was lashing it straight into the lens  , Tom had the Pro 7 light out and immediately the head started strobing madly , , that was it , the light was done for….. 

It was at this point I decided on a different approach , I got Ronnie to drive as near as he could to the water without getting stuck and shine the headlights out to sea illuminating some of the bigger Icebergs , Tom held a poncho over us to try to stop the rain covering the lens , keeping the Hassleblad dry and the lens clean was the hardest thing to achieve in these conditions , it really was a bloody thilthy night , we then shot these shots ,using 25 second exposures , the sea was pretty wild and moving the bergs around, we became so focused on the exposures we both failed to notice a wave coming up the beach and straight into our legs and tripod ,camera was hoisted straight up into the air out of the water ,They were a real pain to capture but I really like these shots , they capture something different from the usual shots of the Icebergs, to me they have feel slightly ethereal, and the process of getting them was extremely exhilarating ..

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