I am in the process of re-decorating my spare room and whilst it was empty I decided to take advantage of the extra space and try out some of the lighting gear I bought last year to shoot some family portraiture. Now, it’s a real shame that since I bought this kit last year, it has been just sitting gathering dust! In fact, I hadn’t even fired up the lights at all until last weekend. I bought the kit from a guy who was giving up on his...
Another shot from the Are You Listening festival in Reading, May 2013. This one was from the last gig we went to, Mr Fogg. One thing that struck me about all the bands we saw was that they were all straying from the standard three or four piece rock combos. Each group had a curveball in there, either in the form of keys or synth. It made me start thinking about the possibilities, especially with bringing in a synth to a rock group. I’m a big fan of...
Last weekend in Reading was the Are Your Listening Festival. many bands across all of Reading’s live music venues played their stuff for free, with lots of money being raised throughout the day. We saw some great bands, highlights being the ’3.1419 Wonders’, Haze, Mr Fogg and Talulah Kills. Plus an excellent set from Damien A. Passmore including a song about mail order brides… genius. This was one of my favourite shots of the day,...
This weekend I was down in Devon visiting my folks, now in full disaster recovery mode after the December floods. We decided to do something out and about on Saturday and resolved to go and check out the new sculpture at Ilfracombe; “Verity” by Damien Hirst. This is a little montage I put together. The problem with photographing the sculpture is that, first of all, it’s covered in scaffolding and secondly the location means it is...
Now that everyone has a smartphone in their pocket, be it berry, i, or droid, everyone also has the ability to knock out quick, half decent photos. Now, I’m all for more people taking good photos and personally I love photo feed apps like Instagram, tumblr and pheed, however…. What can make these things really cool is when you combine multiple apps to create pics that look that little bit unique. So, framing interesting things well is one...
Si's photoblog
portrait, landscape and abstract photographyI am an amateur photographer, based in Reading UK, attempting to do a daily online photoblog. This is failing, so the title of the site is becoming increasingly inaccurate! 
My focus now is to try and take more portraits and start to offer my services as a professional portrait photographer. News on this to follow…
