Blog - Barney Warner Photography

Commercial Photography Crawley

by Barney Warner April 26, 2017 in commercial photography 0 comments tags: commercial photographer, commercial photography, Commercial Photography Crawley, Crawley Photographer, Photography Crawley, Tilgate Lakes

Today’s shoot was for a new client, they are a PR rep for a really great company called www.clos-o-mat.com The company help provide disabled people to use public facilites with ease. So not your typical shoot, but then all my work is so varied. This is why I love what I do! (Variety is the spice of life apparently lol). Thinking like a wheelchair user I could not imagine how difficult it must be not knowing if there would be any public restrooms that could cater for wheelchair access on a day out. Having to ‘hold it in’ is a horrible feeling, but invisage doing that on a daily basis I think it would be a nightmare!! Well Closo-Mat help overcome this by providing new tech to enable wheelchair users access these taken for granted ‘daily musts’. Today it was my task to go capture the restroom and its surroundings to show the local area and its location within, to accompany the photography of the new tech. Tilgate Lakes and the Nature Centre are a family favourite, my twin children simply love coming to this venue, to visit animals, to walk around the lakes, to sit and enjoy […]

Wedding photography Surrey with Mr&Mrs Martin-Jones

by Barney Warner April 09, 2017 in Weddings 0 comments tags: Golf Club, Surrey National, Surrey National Golf Wedding, wedding, Wedding photography Surrey

Wow what a day spent at a Surrey National Golf Wedding!! Lovely and warm, the sun shone all day long. Wedding photography commenced at their home address in Surrey with bridal preps, a lovely house with great decoration really helped me out with finding decent backgrounds. The girls were putting away some fizz in the kitchen which quickly slowed down once they’d realised none of them had yet to have breakfast!! A rookie mistake. With the preps covered it was a quick drive to the ceremony address. The nervous groom waited at the top of the isle for the beautiful bride, he waited a little longer due to traffic but was worth it as she beemed down the isle following his footsteps. The ceremony was held at the Leatherhead registry office with the reception afterwards at the Surrey National golf club. We had some amazing fun blasting round the 18th hole on the buggies and the bride had a good laugh pushing the buggie with Luke driving. (Images to follow…) Everyone loved the time to spend with each other socialising and celebrating the newley weds. Cake and first dance followed and they were left partying hard on the dance floor. […]

Wedding at Wotton House Hotel with Mr & Mrs Patel

by Barney Warner February 13, 2017 in Weddings 0 comments tags: Crawley photography, Dorking wedding photographers, Professional photographer Dorking, Professional wedding photographer, Wedding Photographer, Wedding photography Surrey, Wotton House Dorking, Wotton House wedding, Wotton House weddings

Just 2 days ago we had a dusting of snow! It was still really cold, but dry thankfully. The couple had the whole day mapped out, things were typically running behind ever so slightly but the atmosphere was electric! Wotton House Hotel… wedding photography at Wotton House Hotel is always a treat for me, there’s an abundance of photographic oppertunities at this wonderful venue. Mel had the ceremony room beautifully decorated and Kalpen was the typical nervous groom. You could just tell. He was surrounded by his wonderful family and friends as the bridesmaids walked down the isle swiftly followed by the bride with her father John. After a few minutes the vowels were exchanged and another happy couple skipped back down the isle. Casual imagery was captured as everyone enjoyed each others company and the canapes and everyone got into the swing of the celbrations. Following this was the formal groups, (got to keep mum happy!), then followed by romantics and finally the food. But… before the food came the speeches, a growing modern twist I find. John, the best men and Kalpen delivered without fault and were very much relieved to sit to enjoy the banquet that awaited. […]

Brighton fashion photoshoot

by Barney Warner February 09, 2017 in Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Brighton fashion photoshoot, Brighton photo, Brighton professional photographer, Commercial photographer Brighton, photographer brighton, Photographers Brighton

One of my regular clients is a new up and coming street-ware fashion label. The clothing is super cool and very comfortable. They often use reality tv stars to model their clothing range photoshoots so I get to meet and socialise a little with these amazing people. The clothing brand is based in Brighton so we try to keep all the shoots local to the guys that run the label. It’s usually a fast turn around shoot with imagery supplied on the set. So I guess you could call it a Brighton fashion photoshoot. Brighton Marina is featured in their spring summer collection, but I’ve worked in many places in the past with them, places like Fuller’s Earth Works in Redhill Surrey and the Balcombe Via Duct which has amazing architecture and a massive eye sight to behold up close. Just as beautiful from afar. Also featured in the spring summer collection is a local mansion, where we shot the clothing and models with the building and a Ferrari F430 which was again quite amazing. Below are some of the imagery from the shoot, again, straight out of camera, no airbrushing or adjustments. The difficult thing was shooting the spring/summer […]

Newborn photographer- The Warner family grows!!

by Barney Warner February 09, 2017 in Portrait Photography 0 comments tags: baby photographer, Newborn photographer, Newborn photography, Twins

My brother and his wife just recently had Twins! That’s 2 sets in our family now, crazy times, my wife and I have twins too. I had the pleasure of course of capturing their first portraits! Baby photography is notorious for being difficult, but the twins were great to work with. It’s vital you photograph babies within 14 days of their birth, this way they are nice and relaxed, and easy to move into different poses. Ok granted not all babies are text book portrait sitters, but that comes with the job unfortunately. Just recently I was photographing a baby and dad, when the baby decided to have a ‘number 2’ all down daddy’s tummy. It all happens on baby shoots trust me, but I’m used to it. I photograph lots of children and babies, it’s not my main expertise being a Sussex newborn photographer but I enjoy the love in the room. It’s beautiful to see that instant love between the baby and parent. With my professional lighting experience I manage to capture something a little different from the rest. Have a look below at the examples. .

Head shot Photography – You need it

by Barney Warner February 09, 2017 in commercial photography 0 comments tags: Head shot photographer, head shots, London Photographer, professional photographer, sussex photographer

Many businesses now have multiple employees, the websites often have a list of the employees with a portrait of that employee or maybe team shots. What stands out the most is a professional head shot. Too many times I see that the company have taken a dodgy shot on their phone and uploaded it. This is a major fault with lots of websites. It’s the first place a client will look to see what experience the company has, with a phone portrait of an employee screams rubbish, amature and the company doesn’t really care. It’s imperative to employ a professional photographer with lighting and a solid camera, spend some money and get some quality photography on your website, if you want people to take you seriously. You can find some examples of heads shots we’ve captured below, but not all need to be taken on the same backdrops. As a professional photographer being in the business many years now I’ve captured head shots in many many ways. Photographing at desks, on roof tops in London, by rivers and lakes, even up trees. It all depends on the nature of your business and what you do. If you are a corporate […]

A Brief History Of Family Portraits

by Barney Warner January 27, 2017 in Brighton Photographer, Portrait Photography 0 comments tags: family portrait, family portrait brighton, Family Portraits, family portraits brighton, photographer brighton, Professional Photographer Brighton

Commissioning a family portrait is as popular now as it’s ever been. Some families want a one-off portrait that they can cherish forever, while others get one done every year to mark the changes in their ever growing family. However, having a family portrait done professionally, is by no means a modern experience. Family portraits have been around since the ancient civilisations. Here’s a brief look at the history of family portraits and how methods have changed throughout the ages. 16th Century Oil paintings of dynastic families were popular in the 1500s but only for the very rich and powerful. One of the most famous family portraits in history can be seen in the Haunted Gallery at Hampton Court Palace. It depicts Henry VII in a dominant and central position surrounded by his children and Jane Seymour, the mother of his only son, Edward. The actual artist is unknown, yet it’s believed that the family wouldn’t have posed together for the portrait. The children were rarely at court during the same time so the artist would have used other portraits as reference and taken sketches from memory. 19th Century The first type of commercial photography was introduced in the mid […]