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Food Photography in France

by Barney Warner February 28, 2019 in Food Photography 0 comments tags: Best Food Photographer, Food photographer, Food Photographer London, Food photography, Food Photography Surrey, Food Photography Sussex, Food Photos, Food Porn, Foodie, French food, Insta Food, Instagram Photographer, London Food, London Food specialist photographer, London Foodie
Last year was a banger for me. I had the privilege to travel to France with video friends for Facebook and produce some Food Photography in France. Ok it wasn’t strictly French food, but look it’s beautiful! One night, Instagram flew in a star chef. He created such magnificant master pieces for VIPs to enjoy. I’ve added a couple of dishes below. We travelled to Cannes and as past of the ten day shoot, it was requested I photographed a VIP Instagram dinner that was set up just for this particular event. It was amazing! White was the theme, with white tables and chairs, candelabra, linen etc. Everyone was so suprised and there a lot of phones emerged snapping away at the food and surroundings to record the moment. If you fancy going to the event next year, have a look at Cannes Lions link below; https://www.canneslions.com/

Food photography in London

by Barney Warner September 26, 2018 in commercial photography, Food Photography 0 comments tags: Best Food Photographer, Food photographer, Food Photographer London, Food photography, Food Photography Surrey, Food Photography Sussex, Food Photos, Food Porn, Foodie, London Food, London Food specialist photographer, London Foodie, Tom Aikens, Toms Kitchen, Toms Kitchen food
This is a special one, something close to my heart…FOOD! So over the years of being a professional advertising photographer, my favourite area of photography has developed into photographing Food. Food photography in London is quite popular, not just in social media, (there’s a lot of people with phones these days snapping their meals in fancy restaurants), but every restaurant I know has some form of photography on their websites as a ‘shop front’ to advertise the delights of their premises. With a saturated market in the captial it’s imperitave now to enhance the look and make your culenary delights that little bit more appealing. To stand out from the crowd, to encourage punters through the door. Therefore it makes sense to hire a professional food photographer to come by and give your dishes an extra bit of sparkle! As a professional food photographer, my imagery had been noticed by one of the great chefs of our time. In fact he holds the record for being the youngest chef to attain 2 Michelin stars, (at the age of 26), we are of course talking about the great, Tom Aikens. After working in many Michelin starred restaurants, he now runs 3 […]

Chocolate photography Surrey

by Barney Warner August 14, 2018 in commercial photography 0 comments tags: Chocolate, Chocolate photo, Chocolate Photographer, Chocolate Photography, Food photographer, Surrey Chocolate, Surrey Food, Surrey Food Photographer
BIG NEWS!! Chocolate photography in Surrey happened this week. Oh what a joy it was too, surely there’s no end to the amount you can eat right?! Well let me tell you, NO there isn’t. I’ve a sweet tooth so I’ve been told and this was a dream. Matt’s team at CocoAleur in Newdigate Surrey requested my presence at their kitchen outlet. I arrived with all the kit I needed, and got straight down to business, chocolate tasting! WOW. The product actually tastes as good as it looks, Chocolate photography in Surrey is now one of my favourite parts of my job. These little dome capsules of joy burst in your mouth and have fresh ingredients, like cherries, Raspberries, fudge, Honeycomb, peanut, the list goes on and on. All made with Cocoa butter and no nasty’s like Palm Oil. So the taste is delicious, the ingredients are the best and the product look amazing, there’s nothing not to like. Which also made my job a lot easier. There were some difficulties along the way, the chocolate would melt if I had the modelling bulbs on, so they were off the entire shoot. The domes were highly reflective and so this […]

Travel photography Europe whilst commissioned away from home

by Barney Warner July 03, 2018 in commercial photography 0 comments tags: Travel, Travel and photography, Travel photographer, Travel photography Europe, Travel photography Europe and afar
Whilst on my travels in June I managed to go to some beautiful places in Europe. I love to documenting on my travels, to create memories of where I’ve been. I work so quickly it’s easy to miss the beautiful bits. Travel photography Europe. During my Cannes tour, I managed to get out and do some street photography. I won’t mention this was amounst sourcing restaurants in the evening, with my phone of all things!   Obviously I love to upwork my imagery afterwards in Photoshop, so these might not be the very original copies 😉   Both May and June I’ve travelled to Berlin, Germany to capture events for Facebook, but the last photographic commission was to document a telecommunications summit, regarding upcoming technology. Won’t go into details 😉 I was there for the day, flew out the night before to a dark east soide Berlin. On my own, roaming the streets trying to find my hotel. There’s a lot of building work going on in the east side of Berlin at the moment, so lots of scaffolding up, not being able to see the hotel signs.   I must have got to the hotel around 10pm, dumped my […]

London Food Photography

by Barney Warner July 03, 2018 in commercial photography 0 comments tags: Food Photographer London, Food photographer Sussex, Food photography, Foodie London, Foodie Photography, London Food, London Food Photography, London Photographer
June also lent itself to me becoming a new resident photographer for a certain well-known London restaurant chain, which I can’t mention at present as the images you see below are for a Burger competition and aren’t allowed to be tagged. But I do have permission to show them! I love London Food Photography.   The lighting technique was a couple of backlights, another on the background, a mega brolly to create daylight effect and a beaut dish to fill.   Have a look at these beasts, they were massive!  

Cannes Lions Facebook Photographer 2018

by Barney Warner July 03, 2018 in commercial photography, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Cannes 2018, Cannes events, Cannes Lions, Cannes Lions 2018, Cannes Lions Facebook Photographer 2018, Cannes Photography 2018, Commercial Events Photographer Surrey, Commercial photographer Brighton, event photographer Surrey, Event photography Cannes, France 2018, London Event photographer, Photographer Sussex 2018
With May gone and the trip to Berlin now in the distance, June was looking to be a busy month. Cannes Lions Festival is held in June and Facebook were planning on making their presence felt. Cannes Lions is a marketing and communications festival with all the big corporations attending. I was going to be Cannes Lions Facebook Photographer 2018! I was attending for 10 days photographing on behalf of Facebook. This was going to be epic. I was Facebook’s official photographer. What a priviledge!! There were 17 crew, with myself being the only stills photographer alongside 16 other video production members. We had a whopping villa booked to house us all for the week, a swimming pool with BBQ, indoor games room, piano and games consoles. Personally I was excited to be there but I didn’t realise really how busy I was going to be and have no time to really enjoy this wonderful venue.   The first 2 or 3 days were spent documenting the set build and getting a feel for the vast town. Security was so tight! With flash cars, and the biggest yachts you’ll ever see moored up next to the Palais. Facebook had their […]

A The Ravenswood Wedding with Mr & Mrs Clarke!

by Barney Warner June 02, 2018 in Weddings 0 comments tags: East Grinstead, The Ravenswood, The Ravenswood Hotel Wedding, The Ravenswood Wedding photographer, The Ravenswood Wedding photography, Wedding Ideas, Wedding inspiration, Wedding photographer West Sussex, West Sussex Wedding Photography
The Ravenswood Wedding venue is always special. More so these days as they have around a year ago been taken over and it seems things are going in the right direction. Charlie & Dominic I’ve known for a number of years now. I grew up with Charlie’s sister Rachel. So I knew the family well and even photographed Charlie’s other sister Emma’s wedding a couple of years ago. I arrived to see the bride calm and collected in the most amazing bridal room. Very modern, with spot lights and a huge mirror to see what’s going on. It was bright and airy, a photographers dream. So a good start. The weather was extremely warm at this point and was due to get warmer. So I swiftly got on with things. The dress was hung and prosecco was flowing. Everyone was pumped, me included. I was buzzing. It was a real party before anything had even started. With the hair and makeup artists finished I did a little bride and bridesmaid photography. Then made my way to catch the groom and the lads. Dominic wasn’t very nervous from what I could tell, but he was chirpy and had a beer in […]

Wedding Photography at Hampton Court

by Barney Warner April 23, 2018 in Weddings 0 comments tags: Hampton Court, Hampton Court Palace, London Photographer, London Wedding, London Wedding Photo, London Wedding Photographer, London Wedding photographers, London Wedding photography, London Weddings, Surrey Wedding, Thames Wedding photography, Wedding London, Wedding photographer London, Wedding Photography at Hampton Court, Wedding photography Surrey, Weddings Surrey
Wedding Photography at Hampton Court, what a result! With the sun shining I knew this was going to be a great event. Ever been to Hampton Court, it’s a very picturesque town, very similar to Richmond and Henley on Thames. Hampton Court has the river Thames running through it, and the hotel was smack bang on the river. We arrived at Emma’s parents place in Raynes Park, 5 minutes down the road from where it was all kicking off, she was very calm. The dress was hanging up and makeup was being applied. The girls were drinking fizz and everything was great. Starting with photography of the dress, flowers and other details. Sneeking a few images on the side whilst key moments happened. That’s what I’m all about, the documentary natural approach. Everyone loves this style of unobtrusive photography. The dress was next to go on, whilst Dad popped on his socks! A few snaps of the fam and we were off to see Ben at the church. Now, Ben is a very calm, chilled young man, but as we arrived it was clear to see Ben was slightly nervous. To the extent he didn’t see me at first. We […]

Professional headshots

by Barney Warner February 16, 2018 in commercial photography 0 comments
People like to deal with people, that’s a given. This is why professional headshots are vital. The fact is that we like to see the very best in people. Nobody likes a bad headshot do they?! I personally hate having my photograph taken, perhaps thats why I try to ensure every person I ever photograph feel as relaxed as possible. Maybe that’s also why I feel so uncomfortabe in front of the camera… that the photographer doesn’t have the ability to relax me?! This is why I always get the best out of people when they are photographed, the key is to get the sitters guard down, to relax them, to exude the very essence of their characteristics. This was especially present in this recent commison. The client on this occasion was a creative agency in Reigate, Surrey. A regular client of mine who were working on their own website. They needed a refresh of their staff portraits, and professional headshots. I loved photographing them. Making them laugh and feel relaxed enough to do silly things. I think it works really well. A creative approach to a traditionally ‘standard’ method. A portrait doesn’t have to be the same as everyone […]

Balcombe Place Sussex

by Barney Warner February 10, 2018 in commercial photography, Weddings 0 comments tags: Balcombe Place Sussex, bride, Bride photographer, event photography, groom, Parties, Special events, sussex photographer, wedding, Wedding photographer Sussex, Wedding photography showcase
Barney Warner Photography were asked to attend a styled photo shoot one afternoon at the currently renovating Balcombe Place Sussex, on the Balcombe Estate. It was to produce a showcase of a specific room of Balcombe Place. This was extra special as the following contribultors were present working buckets of magic within their specific industries. @inspiredbysusieevans brought the planning and collaboration along with ideas and creative direction. http://www.tigerstolilies.co.uk/ brought some truely beautiful flower arrangements for the table centre pieces. http://www.co-ordination.net/ were present with their amazing room hire furniture and table linen. http://fourgablesgroup.com/ produced some absolutley amazing food that was all hand created and form to showcase really what is possible for your ultimate event hunger issues. Balcombe Place Sussex is such a beautiful building, constructed back in the 1800s, now currently being renovated into a luxury venue perfect for those BIG celebrations. Speaking BIG, the entrance door has to be the largest, heavest door I’ve ever opened. There are many rooms, the entrance hall has a hugh fireplace, but the room in particular that we were working in was ‘The Music Room’, which houses a very old Music Organ, currently not in use but it certainly adds to the very grand feel you […]