— William King

These are from a project I worked on just before Christmas and has now rolled out over 64 locations around the country on huge banners, posters and totems. I polished off my special hard but soft light (!!) and used the inherent lack of depth of field of medium format to create the feel. What was nice about this is the result is very much a team effort from a great client contact, nice one Katie, through to excellent account management and creative direction from the agency Rufus Leonard. The subjects themselves (all 15 of them!) to a man/woman could not have been more patient whilst we tweaked in the tight lighting requirements. These are the real people not models.

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together.

 

 

 

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Another shot from the Tapestry campaign. Check out the apartments at Tapestrybuilding.com I know you want want one. I do, just a little shy of the asking price though. Hey ho.

I believe this is destined for a campaign in The Times.

 

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These blog posts are a bit like buses are they not. Anyway here we have the fabulous Eloise from Mustard Models helping us out with a piece for Getty Images on style and sophistication. She wears it well I think, I do like a nice grown up!

Elizabeth Scott ( also from Mustard) was all over the hair and make-up.

 

 

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A small and sneaky preview of my continuation of some personal work with landscapes…

 

 

 

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Very nice to work again with the most excellent Rob from Me and Dave on this piece for the Tapestry building up near Liverpool St. Here is a couple of un-retouched outtakes from the shoot. I appear to be having a bit of a black and white phase so I thought I might indulge myself here as well! I guess you can tell it was kinda windy up there. As well as this Mad men inspired approach we shot a couple of other nice things up at Spitalfields and outside the Tapestry building itself so I’ll pop them up in a different post.

 

 

 

 

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I’ve known Carol since my early 20′s, the thought of which is frightening. Not because she’s scary you understand but because I can’t remember where all that time went. I can recall however thinking what a bad idea it was being on the back of Carol’s bike one evening as she rode into the kerb after what can only be described as “many” beers. We have all calmed down a bit since then and Carol has grown into something of a star in the sculpture world, exhibiting and selling internationally with agents in many countries. So when she rang up and asked if could come over to her studio in Bristols Paintworks and shoot some her new pieces for her forthcoming exhibition I jumped at the chance. It’s always lovely to spend time with the work of someone as good as Carol but to be also able to shoot it and observe it under light gives it an extra pleasure and chance to really look at form.

Visit her website here.

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…or maybe not. This mysterious box is not in fact a ship of the Vogon constructor fleet but one of the latest products from One Horizon Group with whom we have been making their scientific wizardry look the part for the new product launch. Unfortunately as such the need to drink several pints of beer is nullified (am I showing my age here or what).

 

 

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This is the very nice and accommodating Helen on the floor of Lloyds Banking Group trading floor which she is responsible for. I shot this on the amazing Canon 200mm F2 which is a monster of a lens and will set you back about £5K. This is shot at F2 which has a depth of field shallower than a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother.. The Canon 200mm F2.8 lets in half the light and is 5x cheaper but there is something so creamy and lovely about F2 (apart from getting you out the poo when the light is failing) that its worth it. (don’t tell the family that this is where the holiday money went!)

 

 

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Every now again you come across something you have done that for one reason or another you have forgotten about. Looking through the new Sandra Reynolds model agency site when I come across a shot that I did with one of their models Charlotte Edwards, this pic somehow got edited out but Charlotte liked it so used it in her book and now I’ve rediscovered it. Sweet.

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I’ve been shooting a lot with Lloyds recently both for the current ad campaign featured in the business supplement in the Times newspaper and also as collateral for their web site. It’s been an interesting project with visits to some of the UK’s major business’s such as Virgin, Innocent Smoothies, Dairy Crest, Hotel Chocolat amongst others, we have been shooting the real Lloyds business advisors with the CEO’s and finance directors of these blue chip companies…

…here’s a couple of examples from the work.

 

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