You may remember a couple of weeks ago I posted some corporate interior architectural photographs from Bank of New York Mellon’s Piccadilly offices in Manchester. Well here are some images again commissioned by City Press but this time they are of the  Spinningfields offices in Manchester. As ever I was given free reign to do what I wanted so I continued the theme of available light and tripod. As a photographer being given free reign is both liberating and challenging. Liberating in that you can go an do what ever you want. Challenging in that you still need to produce images that the client will  appreciate, understand and ultimately be happy with.

Well everyone was happy with these

A couple of years ago I was asked by Lancashire Business View Magazine to get a corporate photograph of Edwin Booth for their Magazine. Edwin Booth is the chairman of the independent Lancashire retailer Booths.
I went along with the then editor Andrew Calvert who was to interview Edwin. We arrived at Booths head office which is based just outside Preston, Lancashire off the M6 motorway. As Andrew was interviewing Edwin I scouted the building for an interesting location,there where quite a few.
The offices are a superb example of energy and resource efficient architecture. It employed rainwater harvesting, intelligent lighting based on the exterior light levels and most impressive of all intelligent heating that calculated how many people where in the building and adjusted the heating accordingly.
Back to the photography, Edwin did not have a huge amount of time, so I quickly set up this shot, looking down the spiral staircase. I liked the simple graphic nature of the view and placed Edwin at the point where the two supporting posts would have met.

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This photographic job was commissioned a few years ago by City Press in Manchester for LDC. The brief was to get photographs of Paul Johnson who was the Investment Director of LDC at the time, together with Jim Martin the then Chairman of Ethel Austin.

We tried several different locations in Manchester city centre. I suggested we try to get some photographs on these escalators. We needed to move fast so as not to obstruct anyone. They were up for it, which always helps!

I wanted to get a bit of movement in the photograph, so a slow shutter speed,a bit of flash and a very steady hand was needed. There was a little photoshop work, only the blocking out of other shop names as we did not want them associated with this photograph and the adding of the tint.  The photographs where very well received, so much so Paul even has a copy of it on his wall.

Nice people, plenty of time, interesting locations all make for a happy photographer and a job well done.

You may remember early last year I had a remarkable portfolio visit with architect Karl Zaldats of Michael Rayner Associates Chartered Architects. It was ……….. CONTINUE READING…

I was commissioned by City Press, Manchester to create some nice corporate interior architectural photographs for the Bank of New York Mellon’s Manchester offices.
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