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Commercial photographer for public relations (pr), advertising, corporate, lifestyle, tourism, indus Highly skilled in capturing images that tell the stories.

Dedicated and energetic photographer with over 20 years' extensive experience in providing exceptional materials for the corporate/industrial and leisure industries. Located in Cumbria working throughout Northumberland, The North West of England and Southern Scotland. Please visit my website on www.andrewfindlay.com to have a look at some of my work, both private and commissioned. Clients: BBC, Nu

Generation Ltd, Magnox Ltd, Jack Wolfskin, Forestry Commission, Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council, Carlisle City Council, Crown Holdings Inc., Direct Rail Services (DRS), Studsvik UK Ltd, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Starfrost, Northern Foods Ltd, Pioneer Foodservice, Smiths Gore, Cumbrian Stone Ltd, Johnston Tractors (John Deere Dealership), Carlisle Windows Systems, Heather Glen Hotel, Peter Sidwell, Tata Shap Fell Limestone Works, John Miller Transport Ltd, Design Grid Ltd, County Motors Alfa Romeo Carlisle, Saga Group Plc, JMP Foodservice, NPower, Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), RQB Ltd, Esh Group, ISS Labour Ltd, Countryfile Magazine, Guardian News and Media Ltd, The Sunday Times,Times Newspapers Ltd, Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Ltd, Daily Express, Northern and Shell Media Publications, The Huffington Post, HPMG News, BBC Good Food magazine.

18/11/2020

Another Autumn Tree. Watch me take this on YouTube on Wednesday at 18.15pm UK time.

17/11/2020

Another Autumn Tree. Watch me take this on YouTube on Wednesday at 18.15pm UK time.

13/11/2020

Not the plains of Africa, its a sunset in North Cumbria. Watch me take this photo on my YouTube channel.

25/10/2019

Working with these two characters in Keilder last week for a new wildlife TV program coming soon. Former Goodie and the T’Yorkshire Vet. No funky gibbons or arms up a cow. Bill Oddie and Veterinarian Peter Wright will be appearing together in Channel 5’s Big Week in the Wild.

03/09/2019

Some thoughts on booking a professional photographer and writing a brief!

Email the Photographer for a 'Quote' send the following information:

Where is the photography to take place?
When is the photography to take place?
When is the photography deadline date?
What is the subject?
What is the final use of the photographs?
What is the resolution needed of the final use of the photos?
What sort of post production is needed?
What is the budget?

Where is the photography to take place?

Access (one off or continued over a period of time) has to be negotiated especially if a third party is involved.

When is the photography to take place?

Seasons, weather, time of day. It's surprisingly how often the time of year is not considered. I've had commissions that had to cover a garden in the bleak mid winter or when the flowers are not quite out in May. I've also had someone trying to book me for an outside shoot at 2 pm on a sunny December's day for 4 pm not realising that it would be dark by the time I traveled to the the location.

When is the photography deadline date?

Which may be near or far off. It's good to keep in mind the time of year if the shots are in natural light in the winter the light levels can be lower the closer in time you are to within 3 hours of sunset and sunrise. Also the weather and season can have a huge effect on the look of the photograph. The best time is from the end of May to October. Plan ahead if your not in a hurry it's good to leave it up to the photographer when he does the exterior photography, rather than settling a date.

What is the subject?

Reference shots of the item or place are useful too, if you are unhappy with your existing photography what about it do you dislike. Also any research shots you have on the style you like are really helpful. If you are not sure yet what photography talk to me. Make a list of the subjects you wish to photograph from the most important to the least. I usually allow from 10-20 minutes per photograph depending on the subject, it's surprising how the physical size of the subject impacts on the time taken to photograph it. Jewelry can be take longer than a building. Allow for waiting and setup time, it's amazing how waiting for the cloud to pass or setting up some additional lighting can improve the look of a photograph. If you run out of time due to the weather or situations beyond your control then at least you've cover the most important.

What is the final use of the photographs?

Print, websites and social media?
What is the shape of the final use of the photos?
Square, panoramic, portrait, landscape, letter box or something weird. Instagram mainly like you to displays square images. Websites are often designed with a panoramic header.

What is the resolution needed of the final use of the photos?

Printed material needs higher resolution than the internet. The image looked great on your computer screen, but when you printed it. There simply are not enough pixels in most internet images to allow them to print at high quality it either printed at the size of a postage stamp or it printed at a decent size but looked blurry or blocky. An image in print needs 100 times the information that a same sized image on a screen has. This means that you can shoot hand held in poor lower light conditions for the internet than would be acceptable if the photo was used for the printed medium.

What sort of post production is needed?

I mainly shoot in RAW format, which is like a digital negative and gives the most leeway to alter the image without affecting quality, also as RAW processing software has developed you I've seen older images reprocessed to a higher quality and more aesthetically pleasing outcome. The fashion today is to produce a bright brave new clean wold looking image with no large areas of shadows. These look good on phone or tablet screens where the end user has the control over the brightness of the photograph being displayed. I've seen clients viewing images when their monitors are set to paper white, so all the photographs with subtle shadow tones end up looking like night shots. E-commerce sites may need white background product shots but social media images look better with a lifestyle feel.

What is the budget?

If you have a set budget to work within, often contacting the photographer with a list of your first, second, third priority shots etc and you are flexible with the date of the shoot plus the deadline. The photographer will often give you a lower quote to improve his work flow. It's surprising how much can be covered, especially outdoors when its a fine day. I have often completed a commission over an extended period of time by visiting the site over several times when I was passing going to and from other commissions and even visiting friends and relatives. This is useful when you are relying on the position of the sun to light a specific scene.

I have a minimum price £126 plus traveling charges (.75 pence per mile + parking, congestion or emission charges) for a set time, date or deadline. I can give you a bespoke quote if you can provide a detailed brief. The more information the better.

Andrew

08/05/2019

Wishing Tracey of Florence Anne Footstools every success with her new website. Also to thank her for commissioning me to do production and the location product photography. It was an interesting day wind, sun and a snow storm.

https://www.florenceannefootstools.design/

10/04/2019

The one thing you can't control as a location photographer is the weather. I was excited to be going to the ‘Registry of Scotland’ to photograph the interior. Setting off last Thursday morning I wasn’t prepared for blizzard near Moffat, my Sat Nav taking me off the M74 2 junctions early into 2 inches of slush and a sideways drift. Stuck behind lorries, tractors dodging potholes and suicidal pheasants. Constant recalculation of route due to roadworks I had no idea where I was and where I’d been. Then as if by magic I was in their carpark. After the usual ‘Who are you?’ by security and the finding of the person to chaperone me. I finally got to work and here’s one of the photos.

19/03/2019

Photographing the roasted bean dump at John Watt, using over and under double flash technique. Warmed up the shadows to give the beans an even richer colour and an overall feeling of warmth to the image.

30/07/2018

Photographing animals is always unpredictable, working at Lakeland Show. My assistant / lookout for the day, an animal lover went round petting all the hounds earlier in the day. It came to the time of the race. I set up my camera behind the dry stone wall where the sent trail had been laid in anticipation of the waterfall of dogs to start. My assistant said 'They're here' I heard a stampede of paws, the crash of falling rocks but only one dog in the viewfinder. The rest had seen my assistant and headed over the wall at her viewpoint, I managed to snap this shot as the last ones came over. It happened again at the next race with the same results despite using a camouflaged lookout this time. I hope I have better luck next time!}

09/11/2017

The first of the season. Yes it's nearly Christmas, well the shops
think it is. Looking through WHSmith and yet again my photo in their
'Steam Railway' calendar of 2018.

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