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Photography featuring Dramatic Portraits, Night Towns and Panoramas. Based near Sheffield, England.

24/02/2026

Happy accidents can occur at any time. At this point, I saw the colours of the reflection. We’d both been working to avoid reflections up to this point, then the colours popped out

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22/02/2026

Lights in the background creating a little bit of lens flare in this portrait

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16/02/2026

More playing with colour

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15/02/2026

I love it when a plan comes together. We had the idea for a Hollywood-backstage theme. I’d found some lights and we’d checked with Phil at the Boardroom what was already present at the studio.

Then on the morning of our shoot, the studio took delivery of the big lights you see in the image, so my smaller lights didn’t need to come out of the car.

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The lights you see weren’t doing much. They were on and providing light but the studio’s Elinchroms were doing the main work. I remember two being used; one large softbox as a key light and a small softbox off to the side

14/02/2026

Playing with colours with Anthea.

We’d already shot a couple of other themes by this stage; both with more natural-looking light. Then we ventured into bold colours, picking the strongest background and we went from there

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10/02/2026

A wooden cube frame and triangle, Mylar sheet and LED tube lights. And both of us creating something with what we have around us

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Lights were a couple of TL60s reflecting off the Mylar

20/10/2025

This was about two things.

1) the state of the dress at the moment. It needs work on it and that’s ok. There’s no deadline for this

2) using the camera stabiliser in close proximity. No doubt, an electronic gimbal would be better and easier but this was to hand so I used it. I was curious how good it could be.

With some shoot planning and practice, it’ll be better.

Maybe the next one will have a more complete dress in it

30/09/2025

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From the launch event at Spire Photo Studio earlier this year

02/09/2025

Black and white studio set.

Although we originally shot this in colour, the black and white versions work better

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01/09/2025

Thinking back to 70s album covers but with a modern take

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15/08/2025

Moments from a fairytale

This was one of a few varied themes that we shot on the day. All with loads of creativity and energy from

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09/08/2025

Catching the light with the beads

It was the last session of the studio shoot so we were playing with different light

I remember placing some Pika200pro lights in some odd places. Up high with snoots, cross body with different modifiers to see what we could get, as well as another to light and colour the background a bit

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Waverley House, 10 Joiner Street

S3 8GW

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http://silkhatstudio.com/

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