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


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here come the Girls....

Tags: Wedding Photography
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24 September 2009

Brides and Bridesmaids - probably the best reason to be a wedding photographer...

A confident bride and her two Bridesmaid strike a pose

Sometimes girls just ooze attitude and confidence. Ask the right questions at the right moment and a half decent photographer can make a nice photo something a little more special.

This is probably why most prospective Brides choose a fully qualified professional photographer over a friend with a compact every time.  If you just want `some fotos` at your wedding, save your money and get a friend to take some snaps and give you a disc. 

If you want some high quality contemporary fashion based wedding photographs presented in a high quality album , choose a professional wedding photographer every time.
The photograph of Sally and the girls was taken at Woodborough Hall near Nottingham. It was mid afternoon and in brilliant sunshine. I handheld a Lumedyne Signature Series light mounted onto a monopod over the girls shooting almost directly down on them. The light was soften with a white shoot through umbrella held about 18 inches from the girls faces.

 

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Emma`s Diary Baby Photography

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19 September 2009

Baby Photography....... or in other words.... I never knew I lived in Nappy Valley

I recently had the opportunity to become the Emma`s Diary Baby Photographer for the Mansfield, Newark and Grantham region of the East Midlands. This has meant a flood of enquiries for photographing babies in either my studio in Newark, or out on location at clients homes. Some of the babies are just a few days old, but most are about 3 or 4 months old.
Photograph of a smiling baby on a white blanket

To make life a little easier for the new Mum, I can travel to her home and photograph the baby in a comfortable and familiar environment. Most of the babies are perfectly happy to be photographed with only a few objecting to funny looking bald bloke pointing a camera at them!! 
Photograph of Mum and Baby in window

If the Mother is comfortable, I have also been photographing her holding her new baby. I normally try to get them as close as possible to show a the connection between mother and child.

Photograph of happy smiling baby

Some Mums are happy to strip down to show their shoulders off for an implied nude effect. This increases the intimacy and closeness of the photograph.

Photograph of Mother and baby boy

Most of the time I have been simply using the available light in the room and just supplementing it with a little flash bounced of the walls to help fill the shadow areas a little.  This means I am not messing about with large cumbersome flash equipment which can upset a baby.  I am normally in and out of the house in around 40 minutes depending on how comfortable the child is.


If the baby is happy, I will try to get really close to capture the tiny details such as fingers, toes and noses, like in the photograph of Sebastian above.


 Little Bows seem to be popular with Mums at the moment....
Photograph of Baby with a bow in its hair
As are little fairy dresses.....

I am currently photographing babies on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday most weeks. If you would like a photograph of your baby, either in the studio or at your home. Please eel free to give me a call.

 

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this picture of my daughter was taken sept 09. it has never been received. no call backs or replies have been received regarding this either.

Posted by adele - 01/04/2010 11:17:50

 

 

 

Three Generations - when a family gets together

Tags: Wedding Photography, Baby Competition, Portrait Photography
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31 August 2009

The Parton Family

One of the best parts of my job is meeting people. I often get asked to photograph family get together to commemorate a significant birthday or anniversary, or even just to mark the arrival of a new member to a family. On this occasion I had been asked by my friend David to photograph his newest Grandchildren, Ruby and Archie, who after a sticky start were doing really well and developing into two wonderful little babies.

We started with some classic photographs of the two babies on white towels in their Grandparents bedroom. The bedroom had huge North-facing windows that drenched the whole room in soft afternoon light. A simple reflector to push a little light into the shadow side was all that was needed to light the babies - no flash needed at all today.

As we left the room I noticed David cradling his Grandson just in the doorway to the bedroom. The light from the corridor was creating a lovely soft hairlight, so I asked David to stand in the doorway for a moment and hold the pose. Two frames later I had this photograph.

Grandfather cradling his newborn Grandson 
 Later we moved into a shadey area in the back garden. The sun was very strong but there was just enough shade to photograph  the three generations of the family together, including Toby who is the twins older brother.

Toby is a lively and happy boy who`s smile lit up whenever his Grandfather spoke to him. He behaved impecably while I was photographing the babies, so I thought I should spend a little time alone with him, so he didn`t start to feel left out. A few photographs of him climbing an apple tree, followed by a simple portrait of him sat on an old bench made for a great collection of simple images of a boy making his a start in life.

Cheeky boy sat on a garden bench

 

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