Domus Nova

This week I was asked to start working for a property company called DOMUS NOVA. They have got me taking photos of the interior of houses and flats that are up for sale and rent in the Notting Hill area. There is a very particular style that they are looking for and I find this quite restrictive but I am confident that I will find some interesting angles in some of the places you least expect. You can see the photos in situe on the Domus Nova website:

http://www.domusnova.com/#home

Below are some shots from my first day.

Great St. Barts

I was recently asked to do some shots of the Church of St. Batholomew the Great. It was an interesting shoot in a magnificent church. It is the oldest surviving church in the City of London and is now dwarfed by the enourmous hospital right next door. Here are a few of my favourite shots.

Ripped @ The Lightbox

I have been taking the photos for the event 'Ripped' at the lightbox as a favour to some friends who organise the event for some time now. Here are a few nightclub style shots from the last one.

Stirling Moss

I was asked to photograph an event at the RAC in Pall Mall last night. The event was 'An Evening with Stirling Moss' hosted by Octane Magazine. Murray Walker was interviewing Sir Stirling and as they are old friends the talking went on for some time before the Octane readers/diners were asking their own questions. I managed to acquire a few shots that have been published on Octane's website and will appear in the next issue.







This photo will be published in the next issue of The Times Magazine as well.



Here is the article in Octane:
http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/news/eventnews/242884/report_an_evening_with_sir_stirling_moss.html

St Bartholomew the Great

I was asked to come and take photos at the official opening of the cafe in St Bartholomew the Great's Church in Smithfield's in London. There were very few people there but they wanted some nice photos to put in any articles/promotional material and the like. Here are a few of my shots from the day.

A Wedding at Gosfield Hall

Last weekend I spent some time at Gosfield Hall near Braintree in Essex photographing a wedding. It was a beautiful location for a wedding and a bright and warm day. The brightness was not really a blessing from a photographer's point of view but it was a lovely day for a wedding and the people were enjoying the weather which made for some great social photography. Here are a few of my shots from the day:











I worked on this wedding with a photographer friend of mine. You can see Randy's work here:

http://www.randolphquan.com/

Its worth a look.

A Fresh Start

After a long time simply uploading photographs onto my previous blog, I have decided that it lacks any kind of personalisation and is less than informative about the pictures themselves. I intended my blog to show what I was working on at the moment to anyone who is interested, but alas my last blog was simply a series of random pictures with no clearly marked connection.

So, after very little deliberation I have decided to start a new blog. This time I indend to keep a running commentary on my work, for any who might find it interesting, and also for my own benefit. Hopefully it will help give me direction and be a useful point of reference.

So to begin with I will upload a few altered images I have been working on after seeing some simlar work in Camden market. These are obviously heavily photoshoped, and are intended to 'bleed' colours into each other to give a general feel for a particular enviroment in London. These ones refer to firstly Camden Market and secondly to Notting Hill Carnival. The photographs I used were all taken using my Canon D450.








They follow on from previous images I have created (and posted on my earlier Blog). Originally I was trying to achieve an effect similar to an old LOMO camera but after merging several images I found there was room to experiment in lots of other ways.

You can see my previous blog here:

http://www.charleshartleyphotography.blogspot.com