My old university club Bath Snowsports invited me to join their annual ski trip to the Alps as their photographer. Conditions were amazing, took a ton of footage and had and amazing time! Here’s a quick video I put together of the event: This was … Continue readingWinter Event Shoot – Val Thorens, French Alps
Bethany from Hawke and Harlow, an interior design company, hired me to shoot one of her rooms. I’m completely new to that style and it was out of my comfort zone but I learnt a lot from it. Getting the lighting right was key and … Continue readingSomething different… interior design
Just had an epic sunset shoot down at Llanfairfechan skatepark. The sun was setting over the island of Anglesey and Harry Williams was pulling off some very sick riding. It doesn’t get much better than great natural light to work with and someone with the … Continue readingSunset skatepark session
Recently discovered and just signed up for 500px.com, a great website for creating photography portfolios, check them out. I’ve now upgraded for a mere $50 a year which allows me to now point my 500px site to my own homepage www.jon-w.com! Easy!
So I invested in a new mountain bike and it’s arrived and waiting for me back at Revolution Bikes in Wales. The bike is the 2011 Trek Scratch 8 and it’s a beauty: Apart from obviously wanting to get as much use out of it … Continue readingNew bike = more photo and video opportunities
Joined LinkedIn a while back but I’ve only just got round to properly updating my profile: http://au.linkedin.com/in/jonathonwilliams I’ve also been uploading a lot to my flickr page so check that out, including shots using my new Rokinon fisheye lens! http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathonwilliams/
Just updated my portfolio on Jalbum, hit the links to see more: Miscellaneous Commissioned Urban Sport
Just read this about what you can and can’t use the D7000’s video for, via Ken Rockwell’s website. Not that I’m going to be shooting commercials anytime soon but it just shocked me that I hadn’t heard it before; the article basically says you can’t … Continue readingAnnoying…
So, to get anywhere doing this whole photography malarkey, I’m going to need a solid portfolio of personal work and to help this I’m going to need to do more projects where I focus a body of work on a particular subject, event, place etc. … Continue readingUpcoming Projects
Here are a few awesome websites that constantly inspire me creatively: www.boston.com/bigpicture – Amazing photo collections of recent news stories, covering everything from art to politics www.mymodernmet.com – Plenty of up to date photo and video content with blogs and forums to comment and discuss … Continue readingCreative websites