I spent most of this shoot in a dark, oil coated, freezing-cold building. Studio 81 on Kirkstall Road, kindly gave me permission to shoot in an old disused bus depot in Leeds for a promotional shoot for a TV series currently in development called, Primary Faction. With only limited time before the natural light was...
hi rob awesome pics!! luv the textures, the gloss with the gritty!!extremely scifi and international commercialism!!
cant wait till you shoot me…now now now!!
Vic aka Kira
Fantastic shots Rob great lighting.
Some of your best work yet Mr Booker. Love It !!!
Absolutely stunning images! Perfect location and perfect lighting. Looks like a great TV show too, I’ll need to keep a look out for it.
brilliant images – well worth the time in the freezing cold building ! love the post editing.
they are firkin outstanding!! absolutely blew me away!!!
This is the third time I’ve photographed Liam, and this time was just a little different . . . He wanted some portraits to show off his character as an actor which will be featured on his website. We started off in deepest, wettest Leeds in The Adelphi pub, whilst dodging the rain and traffic...
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Barns, thanks a lot – the top image is one big old softbox and some careful positioning, a a touch of natural light from the window. Iona, I didn’t make him shave, he offered!
Brilliant! Did you make him shave mid shoot! Impressed! x
Love it amigo! A fantastic stash of shottage. You’re really trying to push things further with every shoot. I love the first one by the blue wall. Natural or studio light? I’m also lovin the HDR like detail in the coat on the bottom image.
Skills.
Last week I spent half an hour driving through West Yorkshire’s finest countryside in search of the perfect field to take Rachel’s new promotional portraits. I spotted the area we used several weeks before hand when out on a pre-wedding shoot. A tiny wooded section in a corn field next to a stretch of winding...
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A few weeks back me and my two photographer buddies, Phil Barber and Barnaby Aldrick were looking at lots of cool stateside photographers by the likes of David Jay, Jasmin*, Dave Hill and Chase Jarvis who are all creating short promotional videos to show on their websites.
The three of us blog on a regular basis...
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Great skills dude! Your blogs are becoming as epic in length as mine…
The video rules.
Awesome edit of the video Rob, top drawer! Can’t wait for the next one! I think your images of Matt are really strong too, I know he had some more mad ideas too 
[...] while TSG togs Barber & Booker got their press passes & shuffled into the pit, myself, Clare & Alix saw the show from the [...]
[...] Video is such a cool way to show what we do and how much we enjoy doing it. Rob’s got the Final Cut edit skills, eh?! Thanks again to Cris for the tasty footage! Check his edit here: http://www.vimeo.com/6010320. For Phil’s take on our 3B adventure click here & Robs epic flash day blog here. [...]
The end of last week I had the huge pleasure of photographing some promotional images for a fantastic new TV series waiting for the green light from the BBC.
31st Century, Steam-Punk, and Post Apocalyptic were the main words I overheard being used to describe it, so it sounds pretty cool. I photographed about 20...
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Loving the pictures Rob – great work!!!
Loving these images Rob! Cool stuff. Like the colouring and design. Look forward to seeing them on billboards around the UK!
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