Adventures in moving pictures
You may remember a few posts back (you know, when I was updating regularly…) I talked about working quite a bit with a local band called Scarred I.D (whose guitarist, Ben, is seen above). A little more recently the band asked for volunteers to help them shoot their first music video. I’ve always fancied doing video [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #9: Learn to draw
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Learn to draw It’s safe to say that I have drawing ability of a dead gnat. Which is a shame really, since being able to draw at more than a rudimentary level would [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #8: Get Published
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Get Published What it says, really; there’s not much explanation needed. Something on this score is already in the pipeline, but even if that falls through, my aim for 2012 is get at [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #7: Shoot Men’s fashion
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Shoot Men’s Fashion I’ve been aware for a while that my portfolio specifically my fashion and beauty portfolio – is entirely made up of women (and at least one model is very heavily [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #6: Shoot a Series
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Shoot a Series I’ve long wanted to shoot a series; several shoots, probably over several months, with a uniting theme or story. I suppose this ties in with resolution #5, actually, in that [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #5: Make Some Art
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Make Some Art I’ve loved shooting pretty much everything I’ve shot this year. I’ve shot fashion, beauty, live music, editorial portraits, weddings, burlesque shows*… I’ve loved all of them. But I feel like I’ve [...]
New Year’s Resolution’s: #3 Get Off Your Arse and Shoot
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Get Off Your Arse and Shoot I’ve spent a lot of time – and not an insignificant amount of money – over the last year on training. Seminars, video training, magazines… And it’s [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #2 Play More
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Play More There isn’t a huge amount of craziness in my work to date. Mostly, I think, that’s a result of my trying really hard to get the simple technical aspects of my [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #1: Take More Risks
In the interests of actually blogging something for once (and notwithstanding the fact that, as another photographic appointment, 2012 will be the year in which blogs die in favour of social media pages), I’m going to start posting my resolutions for 2012 here. Why? Well, for one thing, it means that I actually wrote them [...]
Some thoughts on an accident of art
Sometimes, accidents happen. Often, though we don’t always realise it, they are beautiful accidents. And when beautiful accidents occur we should seize them with both hands. Take this image, for example (click for a bigger version): This image was made right at the end of a shoot. One of the models had already headed back [...]
In which our hero blows the dust off his blog
Here’s the problem with blogs: they don’t update themselves. There have been many points over the last six months where I could have really done with it updating itself, but it didn’t. The upshot is that I’ve now got to get back into a blogging routine or let the thing die, and I don’t particularly [...]
Things I say sometimes…
Over on my Facebook page, I did just quoth: Two things that keep occurring to me this week: 1. I love shooting drummers. Seriously. Could do it all day. Nutters, the lot of them. 2. I love that the Bay area has such a great local music scene. … which leads onto a third thing… 3. [...]
That Tony Whitmore
Breaking radio silence to note that my good friend and occasional collaborator Tony Whitmore has launched his wedding photography website. Tony’s a genuinely lovely bloke and I’ve no doubt that he’ll be an excellent wedding photographer as a result of that. My only regret is that he didn’t realise that this was what he wanted to [...]
Haters gonna hate
Thanks to the wonders of technology I’m writing this about 10,000m above Nevada, en route to London from San Francisco. More about that later, perhaps. Of course, I can’t actually post this from up here, but I like being able to write the draft on my phone nevertheless. Anyway, I was rather tickled to find, [...]
Laser focus
Once again, I’m moved to think – and blog – by something (actually two things) that Chase Jarvis has written. It’s that time of year when, with a new tax year starting, you have to think about your priorities for the next 12 months. Okay, you always have to think about those, but it seems [...]
Vision would be nice, part 2
This will make a whole lot more sense if you’ve already read part 1. On Saturday morning Tony and I met outside X2Studios, waiting to be let in and begin another day of shooting, this time in controlled conditions. There were, of course, a few things to throw us off our stride right from the [...]
Vision would be nice, part 1
This is part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 will appear online in a couple of days. It’s been a funny few weeks at Binns Towers; madly busy with barely a moment to breathe, or so it’s seemed to those of us caught in the tide of everything going on. It seems to be [...]
The Joy of Sacks
I have too many bags. Almost every photographer I’ve ever talked to has admitted to having the same problem. I have big bags, small bags, bags that fit everything, bags that fit some things, rucksacks, messenger bags, shoulder bags and things that aren’t quite bags but which nevertheless are designed to store things safely when [...]
So, here’s what I’ve been doing with my time
And I’m not quite finished yet. More to come when I’m done retouching.
Social pirates
For a bit of fun I shot some portraits the other day of the cast and crew of the Lower School production at my wife’s school. There was, as you may have gathered, a piratical theme to the play. This fits into the realm of social and event photography more than it does into my [...]
Which is better?
Three versions of the same image; three different processes, A, B and C (left to right). Which do you prefer and why? Click the triptych above to embiggen, answers in a comment or a tweet @grahambinns, please.
Alexia Sinclair’s “The Royal Dozen”
Alexia Sinclair: Pope Alexander VI – The Borgia Pope from Sultana Studios on Vimeo. I’ve been a fan of Alexia Sinclair‘s work for a while. She combines excellently choreographed studio work with bespoke costuming and digital compositing to produce beautiful fine-art images. Her series The Royal Dozen, a sequel to her original series The Regal [...]
