This week has all gone a bit ‘meta’ as I find myself colour grading a photo of someone that is, in turn, colour grading a video.

In this post I share a little of my process for retouching and colour grading images and how adding or removing colour impacts the story an image is trying to convey.

Corporate headshots need not be boring, and posing against a white, black or otherwise plain background is a missed opportunity to embed within the image a hint towards the brand of the company you work for or the ethos and attitude you want to project.

For this shoot I used the client’s distinct patterned product as a backdrop that can be replicated for their leadership team around the world.

Read about the process behind a commission from a session drummer and music teacher who wanted to tick of ‘commission personal photo shoot’ from his bucket list.

At a rehearsal studio in Surrey we created a whole range of photos to choose from that were then printed and framed by an award winning commercial printer.