Feature Photographer
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Name: | Martin Grainger | ||||||||||
| Based: | East Sussex | |||||||||||
| Style: | Glamour, Fashion & Commercial | |||||||||||
| Status: | Professional | |||||||||||
| Experience: | Over 20 years | |||||||||||
| Format: | Digital | |||||||||||
| Camera: | Olympus E 20 at the moment | |||||||||||
| Portfolios: | Yes | |||||||||||
| Paid work: | Ohh Yes | |||||||||||
| Tests: | If asked | |||||||||||
| TFP: | With the right models | |||||||||||
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| Author: | Joseph Heller (Catch 22) | |||||||||||
| Destination: | Barbados, used to live there | |||||||||||
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| Hi Martin, is all your work put through Photoshop post production? |  |
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| Not all my pictures use effects from Photoshop, recently (Last | ||||||||||||
| couple of months) I have been using Photoshop a lot to enhance my | ||||||||||||
| pictures, its really for my own personal taste, the models seem very | ||||||||||||
| please with my "straight" pictures, I don`t think many have seen | ||||||||||||
| the "Photoshoped" ones. | ||||||||||||
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Do you consider yourself a better photographer or digital artist? | |||||||||||
| Ohh... probably a better photographer, I have been doing | ||||||||||||
| photography for about 20 years, I have only just brushed the surface | ||||||||||||
| of digital art, I can see myself composing pictures and posing models | ||||||||||||
| in the future in a different way because I have a digital composite in | ||||||||||||
| the back of my head that I am thinking of. | ||||||||||||
| How did you start off being a photographer? |  |
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I went to college to study photography,
when I left I became a |
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photographic assistant at a big
studio in London, it was ideal as I |
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worked with many great photographers
of the time who used to |
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shoot glamour, fashion and editorial
photography from all over the |
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world, a great way to learn and
I got to travel around the world! |
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What are the glamour and commercial market like in UK? | |||||||||||
| The market here is fairly good, I am selling a lot
of pictures to |
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| glamour calendars at the moment, it must be the season, the people | ||||||||||||
| who want my pictures are finding me via my website. I have not | ||||||||||||
| made one phone call, nor do I have an agent doing any selling for | ||||||||||||
| me. I do other commercial work though like nation heritage projects. | ||||||||||||
| Any advice you can pass on to new photographers? |  |
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| The best advice I can give is look for the models best features, be it | ||||||||||||
| the eyes, breasts , legs or backside, and flatter her best features | ||||||||||||
| with the camera, try and hide the bad features, the model will love | ||||||||||||
| you for it! | ||||||||||||
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I know you like to pass on your experience with new models, does it | |||||||||||
| work the other way too? | ||||||||||||
| Most of the models come to me knowing and teaching me little | ||||||||||||
| tricks, which I pass on to new models not in the know!. Most young | ||||||||||||
| women have secret tricks to make themselves more beautiful and | ||||||||||||
| attractive, I am learning new ones all the time!. | ||||||||||||
| Do you think that Photoshop is the models best friend? |  |
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| Photoshop can help a model lose a few spot or wrinkles, give her | ||||||||||||
| larger breasts, perfect skin or longer legs, but the model has to be | ||||||||||||
| confident about her body in the first place to look good in front of the | ||||||||||||
| camera. I would much rather photograph a girl that did not need lots | ||||||||||||
| of work in photoshop. | ||||||||||||
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| All images are the © copyright
of UK New Media |
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Martin would like to credit
the following Models |
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2 & 7 |
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3 & 6 |
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