Incorrect Exposure at Celebrity Big Brother

Whoops
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For some reason I missed photographing the women going into the Celebrity Big Brother house for this seasons Celebrity Big Brother. Looking at some of the names I'm not sure if Channel 5 could be done under the trade description act. Anyway, I made the journey to catch the men going in Friday 5th January. I only knew 3 of them. John Barnes (footballer) Shane Lynch (Boyzone) and Wayne Sleep (a dancer).

One contestant I didn't know was a male drag artist called Shane Jenek, known professionally as Courtney Act. Their introduction to the world of big brother certainly caught them with a lack of underwear. As he walked down the steps, he managed to catch his dress and whoops, of it came, exposing tape to hold things in. People close enough behind would have also saw a few things they weren't expecting to see. Perhaps, when he finally leaves the house down the steps, he'll consider putting on some underwear to at least save some embarrassment.

My pictures were syndicated vie Alamy Live News from this event. Meanwhile, you can see the expression of someone thats just lost their dignity. 

Emma Willis at Big Brother (2015)

Emma Willis
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Big Brother is now back in full swing with a new set of housemates. One being evicted on the opening night. I bet he was pleased. It's nice to photograph Emma Willis each week. She usually wears something colourful which always makes for a nice picture. While I know many women like black, bright colours make a much better picture.

Do you have any favourite housemates. The Second (or first) to be evicted was Adjoa Mensah, she seemed quite willing to pose for pictures on the way out. I am now busy playing bass guitar for an Elvis Tribute Act with Lee Memphis King as Elvis, so it's possible I may miss a few friday night evictions. 

Hollywood A listers: Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks
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Sandra Bullock
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I managed to catch the first few days of the London film festival. Probably not quite to the standards of the Cannes film festival, London does still manage to attract some big Hollywood A listers. Due to other commitments I only managed to catch 2 days out of 10. I did manage to photograph Tom Hanks twice in one day, first at a photocall in the morning, then at the BFI opening gala. The following day Sandra Bullock (at the Gravity Film Premiere - Not all pictures are Taken by Nathan Hulse on this link) was in town, despite the rain she managed to dazzle and have her legs out on show. How many others would do that? A few days previous Harrison Ford was also in London. I managed to catch few US actors which is quite rare for me these days.

Big Brother 2013 (UK)

Emma Willis
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It's been a while since I've last updated this photoblog. I have been busy mostly with a company photographing private events. However, I have recently been back doing the Big Brother evictions. The lovely Emma Willis is now hosting the show and it's worth going just to see Emma in opinion. 

The normal Big Brother has finish and now on the Celebrity Big Brother part of the show.

Sam Faiers Book Signing

Sam Faiers
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Weekend book signings on the outskirts of London sometimes get missed by the regular London press guys, as such they can be quiet for some signings. One such event was Sam Faiers from The Only Way is Essex aka TOWIE signing copies of her book at WHSmiths in Brentwood, Essex. I'm not a fashion expert, Sam in my opinion made a good effort with her choice of outfit, certainly not a drab black outfit.

Cat Deeley during the Royal Wedding preparations

Cat Deeley at Buckingham Palace
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During the week leading towards the Royal Wedding there were many celebrities near the media areas at Buckingham Palace. I only managed to see Cat Deeley. I was really lucky, I just walked through Green Park as I got to the bottom she appeared. Moments later many other photographers were also there pointing their camera lens through the wire fence. At the time she was probably presenting a spot for a news report on the forthcoming nuptials.

I went there to photograph some of the pre-wedding preparations and capture some of the atmosphere leading up to the Wedding.

Enrique Iglesias (and Lemar) at the O2 arena in London

Enrique Iglesias

I've been really lucky to get ask to photograph a few music events recently. As I'm a musician it's always good to do concerts. The only downside is, I have to concentrate on taking pictures more than the actual concert itself. Friday March 25th Enrique Iglesias was performing at the O2 arena on London.

Prior to the concert I tried to find out the shoot position. This would usually be; front of the stage or the mix position (half way up the auditorium). We were told front of stage. Great, no need to carry super long and extra heavy lens with me. I took my 24-70 and 70-200. When I got there, I was told, we're shooting from the mix position. Great! While it's not great to hear that, it's not so bad, as shooting from the front of the stage, you tend to have shots looking up the performers nose. Not very flattering. Despite not having the correct lens with me, Enrique did walk down a long walkway. When he done that, I got most of my shots. Lucky for us, he done that on the 3rd song and not after we had to leave.

Lemar

The support act was Lemar. We were front of the stage for him. Notice the up nose type shot.

You can still see the audience hands in the way, on reflection I perhaps should have done a few shots and made the audience part of the shot, rather than try my best to avoid it. The things you think of afterwards eh. Something to consider next time. A great show and my sister was quite Jealous at me getting there and doing it.

2010 - A few favorite or special pictures

Jodie Marsh

I thought it would be interesting to have a look through my pictures and post a few pictures that either I like or were special to me for a reason. I've not included any shots that I have already posted. Non of these pictures were very successful for me. That's not always the point for me.

This first shot of Jodie Marsh was taken in February 2010 at a Haiti Earthquake fundraiser at the Roundhouse in Camden Town. There weren't many photographers at this. There weren't many celebrities either. As a result, many photographers left after an hour. Another photographer Brian Jordan of Celebrity photos UK and myself stayed, the promotors/pr promised free beer. Jodie Marsh arrived and Brian asked a busker outside the venue if we could borrow his guitar, he obliged.

Nicola Roberts

The second shot of Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud was taken after a day in London. I had a few events to cover. A free concert "Music for Mum's" for Cancer in Covent Garden, with Gabriella Cilmi, follow by the variety Club annual dinner and ball at the Hilton Hotel in London. On my way back to the station I walked past the Mayfair Hotel to see a friend of mine. Within 10 minutes Nicola Roberts walked out wearing this stunning outfit.

Rihanna

This final shot was taken of US singer Rihanna at London's o2. It isn't technically a great shot. I found out the day of the concert photographers would be at the mix position 2/3 back in the venue. I would need to longer focal length than I had. I couldn't have hired a lens (which I didn't think about at the time) I decided to purchase a 2x extender. This creates problems,as I will loose 2 stops of light, in addition the quality isn't great unless stopped down to at least f8 (f5.6 is the minimum on the 70-200 f2.8 lens). There were many other photographers there with nikon cameras (great at high ISO) and 400mm prime lens. I was surprised how good some of the shots were, although not tack sharp, I had caught what I needed to of the concert. This taught me a few things; next time I should hire a lens.

Finally I would like to wish anyone that reads this best wishes and blessings for 2011. Thanks for looking and following.

Katie Price flashing with her ipod range

I had an unusually early start (for me) last friday - 20th August. Katie Price launched her iPod range and the photocall was in Parsons Green. After a usual wait past the published start time, Katie Price arrived saying "I've got them out today". She obviously knows what she needs to do to get her picture used and ultimately promote her new ipod range.

Tech-Info:- As a photographer I made an error to start with. I left my flash on auto. With the bright reflective outfit, the camera thought the scene was too bright, therefore didn't emit the amount of flash required to light the scene properly. Luckily shooting in RAW and using Aperture 3 I can recover quite a lot. However, with the large number of press photographers attending, I caught someone elses flash with provided enough light for me and a better lit picture. I soon changed my flash to the settings I needed once the podium was moved. We were quite a distance from her. With full length shots being taken on a 70-200mm lens. This also used up quite a bit of flash power.

As usual, All pictures are taken by myself including the pictures the first link (clicking on the picture) takes you too. They are all available for commercial and probably individual blog use via Famous pictures.

T4 on the Beach - 2010

The Saturdays

I was lucky enough to be asked to cover T4 on the Beach at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset (UK). Great, I couldn't wait. Apart from an early start which is never good for me. I managed to get up at 4:15, the press coach picked us up from Hammersmith Apollo at 6:45am. That is very early for me. We were looked after very well by the PR team. There was a down side, there were so many acts on we had to do our best to fit the live performances with the press runs backstage, where many of the artists pose for pictures as well. This was a great opportunity to photograph the acts on the other stage. For most of the day the weather was great, it did rain, quite heavy towards the end while JLS were performing. I gave that a miss, plus they were on the same time Diana Vickers was due backstage for the press run. The Saturdays (R) were minus Mollie King due to illness and performed as a four piece. They did looked a bit nervous at the start.

Diana Vickers

My notes for the day and future occasions I should do this event again. As a photographer we can take the live performance pictures from the golden circle. In the golden circle are also other members of the public. It's easy to get head in the way of your shot. Take a small step to get above them. The next point, don't try to cover both stages. The second T4 session stage is quite a distance to walk, plus we shot from the crowd, not even closer like the golden circle on the main stage. Finally, trying to edit pictures on a moving coach made me feel sick. Do it either before I get on the coach or at home.

Tech notes:- The main shots were taken on the canon 70-200 lens using the canon 1d mk111, while the shorter lens picture, eg backstage, were taken on the canon 1d mk11n and 24-70 lens. Many of the shot were shot using plus 1-2 stops exposure compensation as I was shooting against a white cloudy background. I have included an HDR image at the bottom of The Saturdays (still with the demo softwares watermark) which shows more how the scene really was; overcast. Clicking on the picture will take you to the shot submitted to Famous pictures. All RAW processed using aperture 3 (excpet the HDR shot). Which brings me to a final note, when the lap top is on battery power, the screen goes darker, remember to take that into consideration when editing pictures, otherwise they all come out a bit bright.

The Saturdays

So there you have it, a brief run down on the event and all the points I need to consider in the future. Also, please note all direct links supplied are pictures taken by myself and sold by famous pictures. They are not other photographer pictures. Clicking elsewhere on famous pictures will show pictures by other photographers.

I hope you enjoy. Click on the picture for the full gallery of images I took and sent to Famous Pictures.

Congratulations Jet Harris - MBE

I would like to dedicate this post to Jet Harris who has just been awarded an MBE on the New Years Honours List for services to music. As many will know I back Jet Harris, although recently he has been diagnosed with cancer and currently having chemotherapy for it.

Jet Harris was the original bass player and leader of The Shadows, Cliff Richard's backing band. They also had hit singles and albums on their own. Jet Harris can be heard playing bass guitar on Apache and the intro to Cliff Richard's 1st number 1 'Living Doll' amongst other. He left the shadows and had a solo career then teamed up with fellow ex Shadows Drummer Tony Meehan and had a number 1 single with 'Diamonds' which stayed at the top spot for 3 weeks (Jet used to claim it was 6 weeks, but official figures show different).

I would also like to wish a Happy 2010 to you all.