Sheffield’s Faces Entered Photo Competition
- By Michael Harrison
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- 15 Jul, 2010
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Last month all of us at MC Photography challenged ourselves’ to a personal project mission to find Sheffield’s most characteristic faces in a view of capturing them in a series of portraits. Using some of the markets latest professional equipment including a Hasselblad HD3 camera, we created indifferent lighting techniques and then went onto develop some unique post production techniques. We think that our efforts were certainly not waisted and they achieved some images to be proud of.
The images have been entered into Creative Reviews Photography Annual 2010 in a non commercial/personal work category so watch this space & we will keep you posted!
We are still looking for more faces so we can continue to develop & create another fresh unique style and way of portraiture photography.
DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WITH AN UNUSUAL CHARACTER IN THEIR FACE?….We are asking you to get in touch! (The sitters will even get a free copy of their professional images).
WE SUPPORT TOMORROWS YOUNG CREATIVES FOR A BETTER FUTURE
MC Photo’s Director Mark Crapper is celebrating the success of the many students that have visited his studio on work experience over this school year. “I believe it is important to invest time in young people to help them develop their skill for future life and to try and make sure the standards of the professional photographic industry continue to and beyond level of what they are today”.
Throughout the placements individuals are encouraged to handle the array of professional equipment we have and also to shoot images of their own to takeaway with them to show tutors, parents and other peers.
Photograph above: Chenille Moss of All Saints Catholic
High School, work experience student 28th June – 2nd July.
© MC Photography
The students have ranged from aged 15 – 24, and they have visited the studio from a number of different Sheffield Schools, Colleges & Universities, some through Business & Education and others chose to contact the studio directly.
Mark plans to continue supporting tomorrows young individuals passing on his 20 year knowledge expertise both in photography and business to all that visit.
The time frame is very short between completion and handover so flexibility and communication is key with all parties concerned and Formm have been able to facilitate easy access and help from Formm's clients.
Using a combination of lighting, complex retouching and "the golden hour" we have produced some work we are extremely proud of in the past few years. The technique we use to create these images transforms cold, dull shots, into warm, vibrant images that are worthy of the technical and hard work that goes into creating these amazing spaces.
Take a look at some before and after shots!
From our Imacon to Hasselblad cameras, we can bring out laptop out, shoot direct to our 17 inch Macbook Pro so you can see exactly is what were shooting!
If you're product is needing a background we also have a large variety of backgrounds, varying in colour that we can also bring out to you.
We've had some extreme weather this year in the UK with the Beast from the East battering us early on in the year, but the summer we usually dont get in the UK has been very kind to us.
With the lovely warm weather it gives us a great chance to get out into the sun and shoot!
Quicktrack are a company that manufacture apparatus to wheel align anything from cars to large lorries, meaning a lot of their product is rather large.
Below is a behind-the-scenes shot showing the capacity of our studio to get this large product on a background and lit!