KTA2 & 3 - BULB Photography & Research (Chris Saunders, Mark Harvey, Duncan Philpot)

BULB Photography

Bulb is a shutter speed setting on an adjustable camera that allows for long exposure times under the direct control of the photographer. The shutter stays open as long as the shutter release button remains depressed.

 

It gives this sort of effect. 

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Chris Saunders

(Portrait, Music)

http://www.chrismsaunders.com/about/

He has been in photography for 10 years, during this time he has photographed: 

• authors
• actors
• film directors
• musicians
• comedians 

His clients include:

• The Guardian
• The Observer
• Sony
• EMI
• Universal Records
• Random House Publishing
•  Harper Collins Publishing.

"My basic history is I became interested in photography twenty or so years ago after borrowing a friend's SLR to photograph this really cool cat I had at the time. Got the bug straight away, packed in playing in bands, went to college & learnt the basics. Straight afterwards I went to University in Manchester to continue studying photography. The first well known person I shot while a student was the comedian Bill Hicks - I loved his stuff so I went down on the day of the show he was playing in town, hung around for him to turn up & asked him if he'd be up for having his photograph taking. He was. "If you don't ask you don't get" became my motto.

I've photographed:

• Oscar winning actors 
• guitar legends
• film directors 
• authors
• comedians
• musicians

It's occasionally said by other portrait photographers that they regard their portraits as a document of themselves meeting their subject first & foremost.  I feel exactly the same way.  Really I'm a glorified autograph hunter and I get the same buzz creating a good photograph of someone whose work I admire as I did when I was a kid & I got Phil Lynott's autograph after waiting for ages outside Sheffield City Hall in the pouring rain."

Mark Harvey

(Corporate events, editorial)

http://markharvey.photoshelter.com

They specialise in creating great images for clients. He's the owner and manager of iD8 Photography. He has 20 years experience of corporate, editorial, PR, portrait and documentary photography. He is also from sheffield. 

D.8 get the photos other photographers do not see ... gritty, realistic and unsentimental shots that show the reality of work in the social and criminal justice sectors.

They have a softer side too! PR agencies and marketing managers rely on iD•8's media savvy team to produce publicity shots that turn editor's heads and make customers sit up and notice new products and services.

Duncan Philpot

http://www.duncanphilpott.com

Duncan Philpott is part of Steel City Media. Photography's turned into a career when he moved to Sheffield to study a Mathematics degree. 

This image is a good image, it has everything else in the image blurred but the man on the bike, this must have required lots of skill to capture in such a short space of time. 

What began with minor pieces of work for local companies while studying evolved into a full time career working for a range of editorial and commercial clients as well as following the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series across the globe.