Fuji X-E1 and my X100 hard at work

I have been rather busy over the last few days shooting Paddocks House. The second new boutique in the House collection chain. Having had the pleasure of shooting the fist hotel I was very pleased to be invited back to shoot the second hotel. The trusty Fuji X-E1 and the X100 combination worked a teat again. I use the 18-55 on the X-E1 for the wide shots and the X100 for the details and macro. Sometimes I will put the 35mm f/1.4 on the X-e1 if I need.. For me the details shots are undoubtedly my favourite for a shoot of this type. However this time round I have taken some time out and continued to push the boundaries of HDR abilities for my own work. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have had spending 2 days creating them.

What follows is a collection of images from the hotel shoot and I have practiced HDR.

Fuji produces Poets House perfection

So what happens when your client contacts you and wants a set of images of a hotel that does not exist. They inform me they have been hunting for a while on the stock image sites and the stock images don’t satisfy their specific needs or provide the message and drama they want to create. . So we need to get creative! And creative with the whole idea of this concept. The work needs to show a stunning boutique hotel chain is in the making its like nothing else in the area and opening soon. The idea I was presented with is for a temporary set of images need to be created to tell a story and replaced with final images of the hotel interior just before the Hotel is to open. Yikes !!

More photos and details of the creative process to make this work.

Recent industrial shoot

Having some fun with post from some shots from Industrial work. I really enjoy this kind of work
Able to create cool looking images out of rather dull equipment and subject mater is often a tuff challenge but the results are rather pleasing and sometimes surprising.