Winter action!

Get some exciting new location ideas for this season’s Lifestyle portrait shoots. Here are a host of reasons to book your location shoot with Tim Hollis Photography.

Wrap up warm and let’s get out there and have some fun! Children love activity so the options are numerous.

Remember dramatic locations can make for dramatic images. Your favourite seaside spot, why not get some stunning shots there? Or go to a wood, throw leaves in the air, and capture your children having fun with all that movement and spontaneity?

But your own garden too has limitless image potential. In fact, I thrive on the challenge of any location. I use natural light and backgrounds and textures specific to your surroundings, to create fabulous portraits. Images that are unique just to you.

Time is precious. Commission shots of your family together in places that you go together as a family and you’ll be stunned by the natural, memorable quality of the results.

Lifestyle – it’s about love. It’s about light. It’s about life.

Lifestyle by Tim Hollis Photography

Design for life

The way you display your work can be as important as the work itself. THP has a range of distinctive presentation options to display your shoot images.

High-quality presentation is a big part of THP. And with every job we look at where your shoot images are going to go in your home.

We will help you to select images that perfectly match your space and home decor. Bespoke frames, beautiful canvasses, stylish clear
Perspex – we offer all the options you need to display high quality work.

And there is no better gift for your children than to capture with a wonderful family portrait album. We can also produce mini individual copy albums for each child.

With these coffee-table albums, we bespoke design every spread to tell your unique story. They have been carefully selected for their craftsmanship and quality and are designed to last many years.

They are made by Queensberry albums of New Zealand, the best album maker in the world. The perfect design accessory to show your photographs to the world

Day in the Life…
THP commercial work

Join me as I scramble across the rooftops in pitch darkness with a £20,000 Hasselblad. Behind the scenes of a commercial interior shoot for Four O Nine, a select London restaurant….

It’s a dark night and there’s no moon. My assistant and clambering up a rickety ladder with a digital Hasselblad worth a fortune to do a panoramic shot of Clapham North street for a London restaurant interior. And we’re scared.

Despite a few heart-stopping stumbles, we’re done in half-an-hour. It is a 180-degree shoot, shot in six sections of yellow, fizzing city lights, clanking railway bridge and buzzing traffic. I use a deliberately slow exposure to pick out the trails of car lights as they shoot by below.

Cut to two days earlier… we take the same equipment to a studio in Brixton to do the fashion images for the restaurant’s wall canvasses.

Elegantly decked in long black gloves and Katherine Hepburn dress, the model is perfect. We shoot close ups of her neck, her eye, arms and hands. These were later mounted in a quad of canvasses, and two smaller canvasses on the restaurant wall, next to the neon-blue lit bar.

Cut back to night of the shoot…When I return home, I get on the laptop and create a negative image reversing the black night sky to white in Photoshop and produce a faded sepia image that will be printed onto photo wallpaper.

The nightscene becomes a 20-metres long photo wallpaper image and the fashion shots are used on photo canvases to create a semi-abstract intimate theme.

Cut to the opening… and working with the architect everything comes together. A week before and rubble was everywhere. Now, at the opening party everything is complete, with minutes to spare.

The restaurant Four O Nine has an intimate atmosphere. Due to its pioneering and subtle use of photo wallpaper, it makes for a unique city dining experience.

The wallpaper has now become a firm favourite with diners – as they can pick out local landmarks – the tube station logo, the corner shop awning, the railway bridge in the distance. At each visit, it becomes an intriguing puzzle for to find new recognizable local features.

>> See the slideshow for this project click here.

>> Four O Nine restaurant, Clapham North, London

See the restaurant for yourself, call 020 7737 0722.