It takes more than lighting equipment to make an image. I recently left my teaching post as a photography lecturer, to concentrate on making images for financial service organisations. Last week, I got an email from a former student of mine that goes to the heart of what had been a series of thoughts about how I make images for clients of Financial Services Photography by Michael Wayne Plant. The question was. “Hi Michael, It’s AXXXX from the “Developing a Photography Project” course. How is your freelance photography going? I’m going to start my portrait photography business. I’m planning to take …

You might ask why start a new business venture in a time of uncertainty and the current post Brexit time most certainly has become a time of uncertainty and anxiety within British culture. We are currently sitting here not knowing what our government will do and for that matter what the EU itself will negotiate will be able to negotiate. This is definitely leading to a state anxiety for both companies and people. I myself am from elsewhere, having lived in the UK since 1991 I feel like a Londoner. It probably helps that I have a British passport and my …

Why is often hard to choose a photographer, you have a brochure, portrait or an event and you need photographs to share with the world. Our Social Media is always hungry for new images you have to choose a photographer. So what do you look for when you’re looking to hire a photographer? Do you choose on price? You choose on the style of photography? Do you choose on the personality of the photographer? What is it that makes you select one photographer over another and what should you be looking for in making that selection. That is the subject …