Our photography and video highlights of 2015!

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The best of our Photography and Video production from 2015!

Every January we like to have a look back at our photography and video highlights of the past year.

The really big highlight for all of us in 2015 was that on January 1st, we opened our shiny new (to us!) photography and video production studio near the City Hospital in Nottingham!

We started off putting the new studio to use with commercial photography and video production work, and we continued throughout the year on projects ranging from filming new karaoke equipment, to a commercial shoot by Dave photographing dogs for a pet food company!

(Watch the BTS video below of that oneā€¦.)

But for both Dave and myself, our highlights remained the location photography and video work we undertook in Nottingham and across the UK.

For Dave this meant new commercial photography challenges, and a return to more traditional editorial photography.

When M360 needed photography to accompany their campaign for Showcase cinemas’ role out of their new seating, Dave went along to shoot this.

Whilst the end result looks simple, getting the exact style to fit the brief was a technical challenge that required careful thought.  Plus bringing into the cinema a considerable amount of lighting which normally stays in the studio.

bus advert photography

What was especially rewarding was seeing this photography used on bus and billboard advertising across the UK.

A return to more editorial work marks Dave’s second highlight of 2015, with photography for the FSB magazine.

Modern digital technologies abound in the workplace, so it was great to be able to photograph more traditional skills still being practiced by blacksmith Chris Hughes.

editorial photography for the FSB magazine

Used on the cover, the image above was one of a number of shots published as part of a case study of FSB members.

Dave’s third highlight was also one of mine, our photography for the Forestry Commission’s Forest Live concerts.

Each year the Forestry Commission hosts seven open air concerts with some of the biggest names in music at their forest venues, and this past year they commissioned us to photograph them.

The brief was to photograph the people and the locations, versus the actual artists. This meant a carte-blanche ticket to shoot any style we wanted, of anything we wanted. A real opportunity to soak up the atmosphere and enjoy ourselves.

concert photography editorial
editorial concert photography for the forestry commission

My highlights of the year also included the Forestry Commission concerts. Whilst Dave photographed Paloma Faith, I was lucky to be able to see one of my all time heroes, Robert Plant.  He bashed out a set including new tracks, and some Zeppelin classics.

The people and the style were a lot different at the two concerts, and I was able to produce a short set of portraits of Plant fans, including this young lady,

editorial concert photography at cannock chase

As well as one of my favourite shots of the year, this family arriving for the concert.

forestry commission concert photography

I’m a fan of dog shots, and the Dalmation is just perfect.

I have continued this year using a 35mm fixed lens for my portrait work.

This has provided several more highlights, including a shoot with Olympic hurdler Lucy Hatton for the Sunday Times.

Editorial Photography of Lucy Hatton

And this portrait of Dr Anna Hiley, for Pulse Magazine.

portrait photography for pulse magazine

I’m going to end my highlights with a video.

With our move to new offices we also launched our new video website, and many of our clients started to explore our offer.

We started a tradition with NCT a couple of years ago of producing an April fools joke, and this year we thought we would do a video.

Widely picked up, the video has gone viral, with 10’s of thousand of views!  One embed having nearly 40,000 hits alone.

What was great about this was the simplicity of the idea, with the total shoot taking less than an hour. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best!

Witness the launch of “Smart Paint” technology.

Here is to a great 2016 for everyone from all of us at Page One!

Doug.

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