Oliver Edwards Photography Blog

A few months back I did a job for the Mud Dock Cafe  and Bike Shop. The brief was great as it was very open and I was encouraged to get to know the place then photographs it how I see fit.

I often have a set list of many photos I have done in previous restaurants before to repliacte in some way or another, but tried to not use the list as this job was more about capturing the place and the Story behind this very unique Lifestyle Bike Establishment. It was a bit of a challenge at first as I was trying to go back to the way I used to shoot years ago before taking photos commercially.

After a few Visits I started to get some ideas and thoughts on the people, place and story and then Knew that it would be a great short book documenting the three areas of the establishment – Workshop, cafe and shop.

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Bristol had its yearly Zombie walk the other day. It is an event which keep getting bigger every year and is starting to get a bit of a reputation as there are now thousands of Zombies which take part and transform the centre of town. Some people really go all out and spend alot of time and effort with their costumes.

Im not really a press photographer and to be honest I cant really stand being shoulder to shoulder with a load of other togs looking for a generic shot shooting thousands of pictures a minute with very little cerativity, so I took along a little speedlight and grid with a few tungsten and fluorescent gels looking to make a dark image which looks a bit more scary and less like a public event.

I have wanted to try out a few techniques with different gel and camera settings for a while however have never really found a good time to try as I usually try to make people and things look good, not post apocalyptic and intimidating.

Anyway here are a few, not much photoshop work done pretty much all in camera with gels and grids etc.

I went to take a few photographs at St Pauls Carnival in Bristol the other weekend. There is alot of events over the summer in Bristol and there are a few iconic images of Bristol I am allways keen to get as I have not quite lived here for a year yet. Here are a selection of photographs from the procession. Next up lots of hot air balloon photographs………..

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I recently did a great food shoot for well known food stylist and author Genevieve Taylor. She has done many high profile food shoots with some very well known food photographers and authored a book called Stew and writes a blog called An Egg a Day which will also be a book soon.

Food photography is something which I really enjoy doing so I jumped at the chance to get some new food photographs to update my portfolio with pictures in a more modern (or rustic!) style. Doing a test shoot like this is a good exchange as I get access to photograph a dish with all the recipe development and cooking done to a professional standard and Genevieve gets a range of food and recipe/process photographs for the blog/any other use.

After having done many editorial food photographs telling the story of food producers I was very happy photographing the ingredients being picked and prepared from the garden and felt at home taking these photographs. The blog is full of great recipes with fresh egg from Genevieve’s chickens and other vegetables/fruits from the garden.

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The the £ 27 Million Museum of Bristol’s waterfront has recently opened and I am always keen to keep up with whats happening in Bristol and Keep my images and portfolio up to date so I contacted the Council to ask for permission to take some photographs in the M Shed. Its a great building with some fantastic architecture and will be busy every day for quite a while I would imagine as there is alot to see. It reminds me of going the science exploration centre which used to be next to Temple Meads when I was a child because many of the exhibits are interactive and fun.

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Below is a selection of Architecture photographs from the M Shed Museum.

and here are a selection of people and general images from the M Shed.

I have also done a few quick virtual tours if you want to have a quick look around yourself before heading down to see it. Just Click on an image then when it has loaded click and drag the mouse to look.

Please excuse any imperfections in the tours as my software got very confused matching all the photographs together and I do not have time at the moment to manually correct them.

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