Harley Street Oral Reconstruction Centre
A short time ago I spent another afternoon on Harley Street, this time at the Harley Street Oral Reconstruction Centre. A centre for all kinds of dental treatments, it really is an impressive place with state of the art equipment and lots of very friendly staff.
They were in the process of revamping the centre’s website and needed some new imagery of their staff. I set up a quick make-shift studio in one of the centre’s treatment rooms, using the clinical white walls as a backdrop, and took head shots of the key staff members. I also took a few shots of the back-room staff who make the place run like clockwork, before organising a group shot of all the staff in the waiting room area.
Fruit & Veg In A Bottle
I love a good smoothie. I know, they’re full of naturally occurring sugar, so they’re not as healthy as they seem, but I still love them.
I was very pleased when the team at Diffusion PR got in touch, asking me to take some photos for their new client, Vegesentials. They make smoothies, you see, but they don’t just contain fruit, they also have a lot of vegetables in them too, which makes them even healthier.
There’s also a great story behind Vegesentials. A working mum, Patience Arinaitwe-Mugadu started making smoothies for her son to take to school with him, because it was the best way to get him to eat vegetables. It wasn’t long before his friends at school tasted the smoothies, loved them and went home to their mums asking for them too. So she decided to ditch the (well paid) day job and launch herself into making smoothies full time. It wasn’t long before her husband, Andrew Mugadu, joined her full time and now you can find Vegesentials smoothies in Whole Foods and many Waitrose stores.
Here are some of my favourite images from the day.
One Big Team Photo
For those of you who don't know, which I would think is a large majority, AkzoNobel is a huge paints company. It owns a paint company you will have heard of, Dulux. One of its many teams were having a two day conference in London at the British Museum.
I was asked along on the second day to take a team photo, early in the morning, of the 130 conference attendees. Thank goodness, despite forecasts of inclement weather, the rain held off long enough for me to line up all 130 people on the steps in front of the great museum and take enough photos to ensure I had an image where everyone had their eyes open at one point. A small bit of Photoshop later, I had an image with all but one person blinking. I think he might have actually been asleep on his feet!
The organisers of the conference wanted to give out a little card at the end of the day with a print of the photo so that each attendee would have a memento from the event. That meant me zipping off into town to a great little printing and headshot company called VisualEyes, who took care of the printing of 130 copies in just a few hours.
Having taken the photo at 8.30am in the morning, I managed to hand deliver 130 printed copies back to the team at the British Museum by about 2pm, in time for them to slot the prints into their little folders.
Dental Implants In Battersea
The team at London Dental Implants, a specialist dental surgery in Battersea, asked me to come in to shoot a variety of photos for their website.
They needed some smart head shots of their staff as well as some ‘action’ photos featuring real (and pretend) patients undergoing treatment.
I went along on two separate occasions to make sure I could get photos of all the staff members, and the whole team was really friendly and welcoming. It wasn’t the first time I had shot photos in a medical environment, having shot clinics on Harley Street and Weymouth Street in central London, so I felt quite comfortable doing it. The brief was to capture interesting and different angles of their staff giving patients treatment, rather than a normal ‘patient in a chair’ image. It was my kind of brief!
Here are a few images from the day. Thanks to the team over at London Dental Implants.
