Northern Lights, Sweden

sfdigital — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:28:54 +0000

I was extremely fortunate to see the Northern Lights on the first attempt in Sweden recently. In a group of 9 snow mobiles, we travelled about 45 kms in to the wilderness to see the Northern Lights. The experience was just incredible and worth it even though it was bitterly bitterly cold. I think it was around -23C but felt a lot colder than that on the snow mobiles! I was still cold even though I was wearing 4 layers of warm clothing, a jacket and then the snow suit, 3 layers of thermal socks & the snow boots and 2 wooly hats and the helmet!!

Leighton Buzzard News printed this article last week and you can read the full story on their website.

A Lavish Wedding Costs More Than You Think

sfdigital — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:59:27 +0000

Came across this very interesting article on The Wall Street Journal about the costs of weddings. Click here to read…

Business & Beyond with Calumet

sfdigital — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:14:58 +0000

Calumet launches new seminars with Uzair Kharawala

I’m excited and privileged to team up with UK’s largest retailer of pro photographic equipment, Calumet Photographic for a series of dates across UK & Ireland. ‘Business & Beyond’ is a full-day seminar and will be held at Calumet stores at:

08 Sep 09 Manchester
10 Sep 09 Bristol
15 Sep 09 Edinburgh
17 Sep 09 London
22 Sep 09 Belfast
24 Sep 09 Birmingham

I’ll will be presenting on how to run your business through these tough economic climate. A variety of interesting and exciting subjects & topics will be covered to help you grow your business. These include:

Time management
Branding
Marketing, advertising, PR & promotions
Workflow
Shooting with minimal equipment
Creating a ‘hook’ for your clients
Networking and how to build relationships with vendor
Organising your office and keeping on top of things
Cashflow & business management
New technology & experiences for your clients
and much much more…

A not to be missed event. Price only £45.00 (inc. VAT) including refreshments & lunch. For more info and booking, please visit Calumet’s website. I look forward to seeing you soon.

Portrait session, Sandy

sfdigital — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:13:50 +0000

For this session, we went to the beutiful RSPB nature reserve in Sandy, Beds. The weather was just perfect with great lighting and I thoroughly enjoyed the session. Thanks to the Jones family for booking us and it was a pleasure to shoot your family portraits. You guys & gals were just brilliant to work with.

Katie & Andy

sfdigital — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:27:01 +0000

Congrats to Katie & Andy on their wedding. The wedding took place in Oxfordshire at the Eynsham Hall. Great day, lovely couple. Thoroughly enjoyed the wedding and best wishes from all of us to you guys.

Oms & Jez’s Wedding

sfdigital — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:01:06 +0000

Many congrats to Oms & Jez on their wedding. The wedding took place at The Monkey Island, Bray on a very hot & sunny day. Everyone had a great time specially with the weather being so hot. Wishing you all the best for a happy future.

Manisha & Bindesh’s Wedding

sfdigital — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:46:26 +0000

Warmest congratulations to Manisha & Bindesh on their wedding. The wedding took place in Stanmore, Middlesex. Our best wishes to both of you for a happy married life.

Emma & John’s Wedding

sfdigital — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:09:44 +0000

Congratulations to Emma & John on their wedding. Couldn’t have asked for a better day. No rain all day!! The Sculpture Gallery was bathed in sunshine all day long and everyone had a fabulous time. Some images from the day as below. Wish you guys all the best for a happy married life.

Ajay’s 40th

sfdigital — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:40:44 +0000

Congratulations to Ajay on his big 40!! What a fantastic party we all had. Thoroughly enjoyed the evening and great fun to be part of it. The party was made all the more enjoyable by the superb performances by the kids. The singing & dancing was just brilliant. They should’ve been performing at Britain Got Talent!. The rain tried its best to dampen everyone’s spirits, but the party went on and on and on… Here are some images for the evening.

Lights, Camera, Action…

sfdigital — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:41:40 +0000

Apple Store, Regent Street, London

Thank you to Apple for inviting me to do a presentation on how I shoot on-location and the kind of equipment I use. The event was very well attended from photographers all over the south-east and some came along from as far as Cirencester and Nottingham. It’s always a pleasure and a privilege to present at Apple’s flagship UK store which is now I believe the biggest Apple store in the world. It certainly is my favourite store in the West End.

Alongside me was Katie Green, our model for the evening. I’ve worked with Katie for the past 3-4 years and she now is one of the leading models in the UK. She is brilliant to work with and a complete pro. The image below was shot during the evening with a Nikon D3x and 2 x SB900.

Had very good feedback on the night and also thank you to everyone who have sent me emails / messages with very kind words. I will be returning to Apple in October, the date has not been finalised yet. So keep on eye out over here or follow us on Twitter @SFDigital.

Would like to share a couple of emails I’ve received today:

“I just wanted to say thanks for the talk at the Apple Store today. If you recall, I chatted with you and Katie prior to your talk starting. Your talk was very informative and I look forward to putting into practice some of tips you gave. I am impressed how the shots of Katie came out so easily and so quickly. My use of CLS does get the results eventually but I need to improve the speed at getting the correct blend of flash output vs ambient, so your F4 tip helps to simplify the process a lot. If I can, I will try to make it to a future “portraits for profit” seminar but as it depends on my work commitments. I note you used the D90 to make the Swiss Alps movie … I have read online that the D90 movies come out a bit “liquidy / jerky” but I could not detect that in the video clip you showed. Glad to have come along and keep up the good work.”
Stephen Chung

“Had a fabulous time last evening and thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I saw you at FOCUS as well as at the Nikon Expo and everytime you seem to get better & better. I’ve already booked on your Portrait for Profits seminar and look forward to seeing you next month.”
Emma Jones

After my presentation we hit the town!! (well not quite!!). Amit from Apple took me to a restaurant called Ping Pong, which serves fabulous dim sum. Really good food.