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
Sarah and James Sneek Preview
23 May 2009
Today I had the privilege of photographing Sarah and James`s Wedding at the most beautiful little church in Winkburn near Southwell in Nottinghamshire. The weather was lovely, the Bride was stunning and the Groom wasn`t anywhere nearly as embarrased and shy in front of the camera as I had been led to believe he would be..... well done James...
The gorgeous Bride trying to be coy....
The not-so-shy Groom....
The overjoyed Father of the Bride....
Well done guys, hope you have a wonderful time and I hope you enjoyed the photos.....
Commercial Catch-up
20 May 2009
Due to a few technical issues with my new website I have not been in a position to regularly blog about my work. Thankfully most of the issues have been successfully fixed by Nic from ScobiIT, who is the technical guru behind my new site. Now we are all up and running again, I wanted to blog a little about a few of the more interesting photographic jobs I have done over the last couple of months.
Most commercial photography is extremely boring, photos of products for catalogues and simple record shots showing an item in situ before it is moved can be tedious, but they do pay the bills, so i can`t complain. Once in a while I am asked to photograph some really interesting people and products and really allowed to let my creative juices flow, which makes up for the tedium of the day-to-day jobs I more often than not get asked to do.
On this particular occasion I was asked by a PR company based near Norwich to photograph a local farmer, Richard Ogden, of Thoroton near Newark in Nottinghamshire with his 3 metre Vaderstad Seed Drill. Now I am a farmers son, and although I do not spend a lot of time near agricultural machinary anymore I have seen some pretty impressive machines over the years. This particular seed drill is one of the worlds most efficient for its size, and believe it or not is the baby of the family, as Vaderstad make seed drills upto 9 metres wide, three times the size of this incredible machine.
The story included an interview with Richard, so I had to include him in the photograph, so I decided to use Richard to give a sense of scale to the machine, by placing him on the machine and shooting from a low angle, with a wide angle lens, I exagerated the size of this already huge machine and made it look even bigger. The only problem was the weather, it was grey and rather insipid, so I decided to add a little warmth to the photo and give the effect of a warm sunset. This was easy enough to achieve, by simply placing my old Vivitar 285 flash, fitted with a 1/2 CTO gell, off to camera left and slightly under exposing the ambient, the damp horrible weather appearred a little more appealing than it really was.
This type of work probably makes up about 25% of what I do. Using light creatively, but simply, to enhance an image and make what could have been a rather mundane picture of a the equipment, into what turned out to be a rather interesting portrait of a Farmer and his toys.
The next job was for Mindcraft Therapy in Retford. Mindcraft provide a whole holistic approach to caring for body and soul, including all sorts of massage therapies alongside Hypnotherapy to help cure all ills.
I love this type of job, I could have stopped all day. I was considering taking them up on the offer of a massage but I had to go... maybe next time.
On this occasion I had to photograph the team at work and shoot some more traditional portraits for their promotional material. The room we used was small but very light and airy with large windows to one side, so it was easy to use the ample available light. I did supplement the light by bouncing a Canon 580 EX of one wall, but this was simply to add a little shape to the light and create a slight rimlight to the face. The portrait was even simpler, just window light and a small reflector.
If you think your company could benefit from a new fresh approach to how it presents itself, please feel free to contact me, I am always willing to help.
