After 4 days of set construction and camera rehearsals, we were getting closer to the shoot day. I had been commissioned to direct a television commercial for a leading underarm deodorant client. The basic scenario was: A Tarzan-like character swings through the dense foliage of the African jungle, his cry reverberating across the valleys. He [...]

As I’ve discussed on previous blogs so many things come into play when trying to get the perfect picture. Your approach to each picture is never the same for a very simple reason – taking a picture is a ‘living thing’ it’s an emotion, technique, gut feel, knowledge, commitment and most of all passion. In [...]

Have you ever wondered how press photographers and television news reporters get those amazing action shots in hectic and often life threatening situations?
Often press reporters are killed in war zones around the world and you’re not surprised when in the middle of shoot out between the good guys and the bad guys a cameraman [...]

You have to understand something when taking pictures of wild animals, they never sit still unless they’re stuffed in a museum and we don’t want to go down that road. Wild animals are naturally nervous, highly strung, twitchy, unpredictable and permanently in survival mode.
There is no such thing as ‘chilling out’ for a wild animal [...]

There is a famous expression in the stills and movie industries ‘Stay away from Children and Animals’. I’m not sure who should take the credit for this profundity, but whoever he was, he knew what he was talking about. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to prevent you from taking pictures of your young [...]