The Blog of Paul Hurst Photography

Well as from today I have a new blog over at Paul Hurst Photography along with the rest of my redesigned site.  Both the website and blog now have a common look – simple, clean and stylish.  All updates will now be on the new site.  Please go on over and take a look and let me know what you think.

Had the pleasure of photographing local actor John Gully recently.  Arrived at the shoot location to find a large event going on, so a quick think and we changed location to lovely local park Knighton Park 2 mins down the road.  Light was lovely.  Grabbed a great set of images using mix of natural and off camera lighting.  Image below was natural light only taken under a tree to get fantastic soft lighting.

Not been into the woods for a portrait shoot for some time so got together with model Ellen for a test shoot to try out some new ideas and lighting setups.

Leicestershire is packed full of great woodland locations and its not too hard to find a nice area to capture some fantastic images.

We chose a day when it rained almost non-stop, but the tree canopies helped shelter us from most of it, although the soft wet ground caused us some difficulties navigating through the wood.

Did an urban shoot with models Gabrielle and Chrissie a little while back in the backstreets of Leicester.  Mix of natural light and off camera flash to get a nice variety of images.

I did a photoshoot recently for a great family celebrating an 80th birthday party.  Group shoots are not easy as you never have enough space, but we shot some great images from this session and the prints are lovely.  Black and white prints on a white background are fantastic.