Photography Location - Simon Plant Photographer

Sep

Gulets. . . Again

I often find it fascinating the things Im drawn to photograph and the fact I sometimes do this almost unconsciously.
In an earlier post I showed some Gulets Boats I had shot this year from my annual trip to the Aegean Coast in Turkey. I have no real passion for boats although I am often drawn to the sea for many of my location images.Maybe the reason for shooting these beautiful boats is the sence of freedom and adventure that they offer those who sail them and possibly a hidden urge to jump aboard myself to experience the places that they can travel.

Here are two more images I had captured of Gulets in the area of Bodrum Turkey over the past several years.

Gumbet Bay

Entering The Bay

Sep

Casting Under The Tor

It’s not uncommon for me to shoot images and leave them for a short while before deciding to retouch them.I’m not sure why I do this and it does not happen with all the images I shoot and certainly not with my clients images !Read More

Sep

Commission For Hoistway

I recently completed a job for Hoistway a company based in Somerset specialising in Lifts And Elevators.
The brief was to go on location and capture a security gate they manufacture for lifts that are under construction.Read More

Aug

Passion & Desire

I believe passion & desire are they keys to success in anything we do.
My main two lifetime passions have always been my photography and football.As a child I was rarely seen without a football and like most boys dreamt of being a professional when I grew up preferably playing for my boyhood team Liverpool :).Of course this never happened but the love of the game remained.Read More

Aug

Moored For The Night

There is nothing more therapeutic to me than to set up the camera at sunset and to watch & wait for the light to almost disappear into what I call the edge of darkness.

This period of the day (or is it night !) is magical to me and fits in perfectly with my photographic vision.Read More

Aug

Gulet BoatYard

I captured this image back in June while making my regular trip to the Aegean coast of Turkey.
The beautiful Gulet boats are a common sight in this part of the world and for me are iconic with Turkey.Read More

Jul

New Life Image

My main niche areas within photography have always been shooting locations and people.
Over the years I’ve shot people from all kind of backgrounds,heads of industry,tv celebrities,scientists and quite a few too many leggy models to count 🙂
However a couple of years ago I started shooting less people and more landscapes/locations without any signs of life in them (apart from several shoots with prestige cars and drivers).
I’m not sure if this was completely intentional but I do feel i may have been a little burn’t out shooting people and needed a break from it for a while.
Anyway in the last few months I have had a longing to get social once again and start to invite people back into my compositions.

This shoot below was of my 8yr old son Gabriel who started playing football last year (football is another big passion in my life) and has done incredibly well in such a short space of time. For this image I decided to capture him in his Yeovil Town training kit against a suitable backdrop using a 45mm focal length lens and a low viewpoint to give him power and presence in the frame.

Several days previously I was in Turkey shooting at dawn in a rustic boatyard.
On the beach I spotted this man called Asur sitting down smoking a cigarette and enjoying the incredible dawn light.
I approached him and asked (in my best Turkish Brummie Somerset accent !) if I may photograph him which he was most agreeable to.
Although it was to be a photograph of him I also wanted the beautiful location to play a major part in the shot which is often a difficult balance to pull off.
I decided on a 55mm focal length and positioned him slightly off centre on the tracks that deliver the boats from the boat yard into the sea.

Jun

A Vacation Photographer 6 Miles Up Over The Alps

I’m writing this post from the Aegean Coast In Turkey where we have a home. I never fail to get inspired by flying and the unique perspective it gives along with spectacular cloud formations. The light changes very quickly at 500 mph so just when you put your camera down there is another shot to be had. This image along with many others was shot with my very basic and challenging iPhone 4…not the camera professional vacation photographer would normally use but great fun !

May

Moored Between The Reeds

I learn’t my photography by spending a many a misty dawn shooting landscapes on the Somerset levels and 20 odd years on I can still be found wandering the wetlands with my camera.

Although I have explored just about every corner of this area of Somerset it still inspires me to go out and look for new locations and shooting opportunities and I’m rarely dissapointed.

This image titled Moored Between The Reeds was shot on Shapwick Heath which is a RSPB (Royal Society For Protection Of Birds) area.

As often is the case with my work it’s been..ehh Tweaked shall we say to fit my interpretaion of the place as I see it rather than a straight record of the location as it existed.

: Moored Between The Reeds, Shapwick Heath Somerset

Moored Between The Reeds

Mar

Praha “44” Image

Today I finally applied the last finishing touches to my latest image creation Praha “44”
I’ve been working on some new ideas for my book (Portfolio) and decided to produce an image that inspired me several years ago.

In 2006 I went to Prague to shoot some images and 360 HDR Spheres for some CGI images of Trucks that I was collbortating on with CGI Artist Andrew Jackson.

One morning while there I found myself wandering the streets in the dark (Pre Dawn) around the Charles Bridge shooting some of the beautiful buildings and cobbled streets.
While studying the scene below (steps leading down from the bridge) in the slighly damp eerie dark of that particular November morning I could easily envisage a scene from the occupied era of Prague in front of me.
I decided it could at some point make a great backdrop to a composit image complete with a German Officer.

I’m extremely pleased with the final image and it could not be any closer to my original vision all those years ago.

As with all composit images planning was the formula to the final sucess.

: Praha “44”

The Lighting setup was pretty simple in terms of equipment used but needed lots of attention to get the look to fit in with the background street lighting while also allowing enough detail in the very dark fabric of the German Officers uniform.

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