What does a Devon Commercial Photographer do During Lockdown?

Devon commercial photographer, Tony Cobley has been keeping busy during the Coronavirus lockdown. Between volunteering in his local community and the occasional safe home product photoshoot, Tony has also been providing virtual photography tuition for hobby snappers anywhere in the world via Zoom. He’s also giving free on line consultations with business owners and marketing professionals to discuss photography plans for the other side of lockdown. This week, Tony has done a product photo shoot for a new client in Devon. “Allies of Nature” are a start-up emotional wellbeing business making flower essences who have put lots of effort into their branding and design. They needed quality images to show off their brand across all marketing material and social media. Tony who is a location commercial photographer was able to build a studio at his home near Plymouth in South Devon to do the product shoot. This maintained maximum social distancing and he handled the products with gloves to be extra safe. Tony shot individual images of all 22 flower essence products and then made some creative group shots. Simon Blackler, owner of “Allies of Nature” was thrilled with the resulting images and said: “I have just downloaded all the pics, what an awesome photoshoot, looks like you had some fun!! Great group shots as well as the individual bottles. I couldn’t have asked for any more. I’m looking forward to showing off your fantastic work. Brilliant job, first class effort.” Tony is keen to talk to anyone involved in marketing about future plans for the other side of the current lockdown and offers free photography consultations via Zoom for business owners and marketing / comm's professionals. See Tony's full portfolio via the folio links at Tony Cobley Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLbjbOMFGpU  

Royal Photography in the SW

I little while ago I had the pleasure of photographing HRH The Princess Royal in North Somerset. This was the second time I've photographed Princess Anne this year, documenting a royal visit to a local South West organisation. The visit was to the Butler Trust and the Bristol, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Community Rehabilitation Company where the princess met award winners and members of both organisations. Working to strict security, logistical and briefing guidelines, I managed to get some nice natural reportage images of the event which will be used by both organisations for public relations purposes. See more examples of my Events Photography in SW England including Royal Photography in the SW.

I have recently enjoyed working with with the superb Thrive Hubs on some contemporary business interior photography in Plymouth. Thrive Hubs offer very high quality office space including hot-desking and short term rental and Ocean Crescent, Plymouth is well worth a visit! Our photoshoot was to show the contemporary spaces, fully styles and with people. We used lots of professional lighting to show the space at its best and create fresh, dynamic, contemporary images. See more of my Interior Photography for all sorts of businesses in Devon & Cornwall.

Variety

Working as a commercial photographer in Devon and Cornwall really does provide me with a varied and diverse working life; every day is very different! Although the purpose and the techniques are always similar, the subject matter and location environments can be assorted and very mixed. I meet lots of interesting people, go to places I never realised exist and learn about all sorts of organisations. I love my work.

Examples

Last month my work as a commercial photographer in the South West included: Antique chairs in a country house, a health & safety director in a petrol terminal, contemporary kitchen interiors, working portraits of trainees in a college, some corporate business headshots, product images of horse riding boots and an aerial drone shoot of a school!

Environments & People

The environments for these locations are all so different - from industrial docks in Plymouth, to a rural Dartmoor home, to a factory in Cornwall, to a large college campus, to a modern office complex. And the people involved can be anyone from trainee to CEO - all fascinating in their own way. So I never get bored or tired with my work and the people I work with.

Common Links?

The common link to all of these apparently different commercial photography projects (other than Devon & Cornwall) is that we are capturing brands. All of my work is for marketing & communications purposes, commissioned by marketing professionals or business owners. So my job is to create images which use the environment, the people and the subject matter to give power and reality to a marketing campaign.

Where do the Images End Up?

The petrol terminal images will end up in an annual report, the headshots on a website team page, the kitchens in a brochure, the boots on an e-commerce site and the trainees in an apprentice event promo poster and social media. Just a few examples of different ways to use images as marketing assets.

Commercial Photographer - Who & How?

Professional commercial photographers like me are trained and experienced experts at getting the best out of subjects, locations and people, no matter what and where they are. We create marketing assets to get your organisation and message noticed. See more of my Devon & Cornwall commercial photography and many more varied images on the Tony Cobley Photography website. You can also see more examples on this youtube video on photographing people in business. Please feel free to Get in touch if you'd like to discuss creative ideas for photographing your unique organisation and creating new, powerful marketing material. Tony

I have lots of experience of construction photography in Devon & Cornwall. I regularly photograph for construction contractors, house builders, surveyors and architects in South west England. Sometimes the shoots are to create marketing images of finished sites and sometimes of the site in progress. The completed site images are good for general marketing for the builder or designer and the photography viewpoints, angles, and weather are careful considered. Photography is also valuable during the construction process. These images can show the procedures, skills and processes of construction and also provide a story of the progress of the site. I am sometimes hired to produce monthly images of a site each month for the whole build process and my clients find these images very good for social media promotion of the scheme. You can see more images of my industrial, technical and construction photography in Devon & Cornwall here.

Isles of Scilly Photo Book

I'm a regular visitor to the amazing Isles of Scilly and have many photographs of the Islands. I have just published a photo book on the Isles of Scilly via "Bob Books". Having visited these amazing Islands several times, I have based the book on my Isles of Scilly image portfolio. Check out the folio or the book and see why I've become addicted to doing photography of the Isles of scilly! You can view the book via this link below Isles of Scilly Photo book by Tony Cobley. You can see a YouTube slideshow of my Scilly images. Fine art prints of many of my landscape and documentary photography can be bought at Tony Cobley Prints

Being a commercial photographer in the rural South West of England is far more interesting, diverse and fun than working in the city! In the last month, I have had to do these unusual things during photo-shoots in Devon & Cornwall:

-  Move a herd of cows from a product shoot.

-  Balance expensive products on an ancient Cornish castle wall. -  Remove and bury a dead mouse from a holiday cottage shoot.

- Shoot a fully dressed expensive bed on open moorland. -  Use a 10kg weight to stop the camera blowing away in a gale on Dartmoor. -  Clean seagull poo from a property shoot. -  Change my trousers after low-angle-photographing a 4x4 car coming through a Devon river ford after lying to close to the edge! -  Eat ice cream, fish 'n' chips and cream teas during a tourism shoot (so they weren't wasted!).

...I couldn't think of a better job than being a photographer in Devon    :)