Author archives: Luke Richards
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- Revision: it involves reading, discussing and turning things over in your mind. So how on earth do you bring that to life with photography?
At key points of the year, Elite IB provides revision courses – and expert tutors – to steer students through the International Baccalaureate (IB).
Re[...]
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- Even the most serious of businesses needs to show its human side.
Engage (formerly Chase Solutions) offers ‘field services’. I must confess, I wasn’t quite sure what that entailed when I was asked to carry out portrait photography of the senior management team, plus some premises and lifestyl[...]
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- Does your job allow you to have the occasional off day? A recent job for Caring Hands, a care provider in Lancashire made me realise how that’s never an option for commercial photographers.
You know what it’s like. If you’re a one-man (or woman)-band, you tend not to spend a huge amount of ti[...]
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- Sometimes, it really is ok to keep things simple...
I’m not one for literal photography. I’ll give you an example of the sort of thing I mean: my local paper ran a story not so long ago about a man who was unhappy about the potholes in his road. The accompanying photo showed the chap crouchin[...]
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- One of my latest videos has just been screened at the Royal College of Medicine. As you can imagine, I’m rather chuffed about that...
Last month, you may remember I wrote a post featuring Keith Hayman of Fleetwood, whose blindness has been alleviated by incredible new Argus II technology. You can[...]
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- The portrait and architectural photography I undertook for this Warrington School is now featured heavily in the school’s prospectus.
If you’re a longstanding reader of these pages (in which case, thank you) you might remember that last year I spent a couple of days at Warrington’s Hope Academy c[...]
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- I’m a commercial photographer in Preston. So naturally my latest commission was in Norway. I’m not complaining.
There are some questions that, as a professional photographer, you just say yes to:
Want to work for Hewlett Packard? Yes.
Want to shoot an Olympic champion? Yes.
Want to go to[...]
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- I’ve been working with Second Sight Medical to tell the story of a Lancashire man who’s been given a new life thanks to a set of very special glasses.
Meet Keith Hayman. He’s 65 and lives in Fleetwood with his wife Sandra, son Alan and grandson Kyle. Keith has been totally blind for 25 years,[...]
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- You start with big group shots; you end with individual portraits. But then that’s the thing with shooting at Fever Dance – you need to stay agile.
Fever Dance Studio has some serious credentials. Since it launched in 2044 its various dance groups have performed at the Royal Variety Show, mad[...]
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- When DIY photography really won’t cut it...
Not every company gets a professional commercial photographer in when they need a few shots taking. When the photograph is going to sit in a corner of your website on a blog post, or is the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a case study, that’s generally fin[...]
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- You could tell the world about your production facility’s capacity. Or you could show it.
Knighton Foods probably isn’t a name you know. But I’d put serious money on you having eaten or drunk their products.
They’re the people who supply instant dry powder food products to retailers, manu[...]
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- I’ve been in London, on a shoot for a project which is helping over-50s get active.
If you’ve visited these pages before you’ll probably be familiar with Mytime. They’re the leisure and fitness organisation helping to keep more people active via their network of leisure centres, swimming pool[...]
