Paul Saxby Photography

Stunning Fine Art Wedding and Portrait photography by Award Winning Photographer Paul Saxby.

Paul creates sophisticated yet informal and highly imaginative portrait and wedding photography in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicstershire, Warwickshire and Derbyshire. Paul has worked all over the UK and has accepted commissions in Europe and the US.



Despite being constantly in demand, Paul limits himself to 14 wedding commissions each season and 16 portrait commissions each month.

Paul is also the official baby photographer for the Emma`s Diary baby program for the Newark, Mansfield and Grantham areas. Paul has a comfortable , family friendly studio within easy reach of Newark town centre. The studio offers extensive facilities including free refreshments and baby changing facilities as well as ample parking and ground floor access.

Paul is proud to offer a wide range of superb quality, high value, photographic products at an affordable price.

 

East Midlands MPA Portrait Photographer of the Year 2010

East Midlands MPA Pet Photographer of the Year 2009

East Midlands MPA Licentiate Wedding Photographer of the Year 2008


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Iron Psyche - Emma James World Champion Power Lifter

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05 March 2010

Yesterday I was lucky enough to photograph one of the most interesting women I have ever met.

Emma James is a World Champion Power Lifter, and a NLP Coach who works with Elite Athletes, in particularly Power lifters like herself. Emma is in the process of releasing a new DVD about her work called Iron Psyche.

Emma drove down from Manchester to my studio in Newark to have her photograph taken.

Emma James Power Lifter portrait photograph by Paul saxby

I photographed Emma using a single Bowens Studio Flash with a simple Grid Spot attachment. The Bowens was a little too powerful for my needs so I had to stuff the head with some diffusion material to knock the exposure down which allowed me to record Emma without blowing out her skin.

Emma James Power Lifter Portrait photograph by Paul Saxby

I directed the light to skim across Emma`s body to show the contours of her muscles. Emma admitted she is no longer a body builder so her muscles are not as defined as they used to be, even so, she has an incredible body which made an interesting subject to photograph.



I have always found athletes interesting. Anybody that can apply so much dedication to shaping there body to acheive a particular aim, such as power lifting, long distance swimming, or running deserves respect. I know I used to be fairly fit, but know I am a wreck in comparison to these guys.

 

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Mezzo Soprano Victoria Gray

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21 February 2010

This weekend I had the pleasure of photographing Victoria Gray. Victoria is a Mezzo Soprano Opera Singer and is touted as being the new rising star of Opera singing. Not only is Victoria extremely talented, but she is stunningly beautiful and extremely professional in front of the camera which makes my job so much easier.

Mezzo Soprano Victoria Gray

The photographs were taken shortly before her performance at The Queen Elizabeth School in Mansfield at the weekend. I had worked at the school before and I knew that the school was a lovely old building with loads of character, but the main hall is lit with a mixture of horrible overhead tungsten and fluorescent lights which means the colour is all over the place, so just to be on the safe side I took my Vivitar 285HV`s and my Al Jacobs Black Box. This kit incredibly simple, but allows me to provide studio quality lighting in almost any environment.

Mezzo Soprano Victoria Gray

To make the photographs, I simply fired the Vivitar 285 through a white shoot through umbrella. I deliberately underexposed the available light by setting my camera to its top sync speed of 1/250th  which allowed me to totally remove the horrible yellow/green light that lit the hall.

Mezzo Soprano Victoria Gray
 
After the official portrait session, Victoria left to prepare for the concert. While she got ready I set up the Vivitar just right of the stage. I removed the umbrella and zoomed out the reflector head to its maximum setting so that the flash cast a tight beam of light across the stage. This allowed me to highlight Victoria as she performed and create some atmosphere in the photographs.

More photographs from Victoria`s performance will be in a forthcoming issue of Life and Style magazine, available from most good outlets in the Newark and Nottingham area.

 

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And the winner is......

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19 February 2010

Jennie :)

After loads of deliberation, umming, arrhhing, and sitting on my thumbs trying to put off selecting the winner of the wedding photo competition, I finally decided to just do it.

There were so many fantastic entries, over 60 in all, from all over the UK. I actually decided to offer a further three runner up prizes of £250 wedding photography vouchers.

How we did it.

I had actually received loads of entries by email, from lovely couples pleading with me to pick them, but the choice was just too difficult. In the end I left it totally to chance. I first winkled the weddings that were for dates I couldn`t do for one reason or another, printed off the names of all the remaining entries. I put a squecky dog toy at the bottom of a big bucket and dropped the pieces of paper on top. Then called Lucy.

Lucy did a grand job, in a matter of seconds all the pieces of paper were flying all over the place and in no time at all their was only one piece of paper left. That was the winner. We repeated the process until we had chosen all the winners.

We haven`t managed to contact everyone yet, but we did manage to get hold of our winners Jennie and Ian who live near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

Wedding Competition winners

Jennie sent me a recent photo of the two of them together on holiday so I knew who I was talking too. We had a lovely chat and she was over the moon to have won the prize. They get married in October, so keep your eyes open, we will be seeing more of them later on this year. Jennie and Ian win £1450 worth of wedding photography which they can use in anyway they please from our regular price list...

Thanks to everyone who entered, those of you who are getting married next season will be automatically entered into next years competition, so don`t worry, you might yet still win something....

 

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