Jonathan Farber | Photographer

Sk8dorz

jfarber — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:24:01 +0000

These shots were taken over a few weeks, no doubt there will be plenty more to come as these want a skate park for Knutsford. Granted they are expensive things but they are great for fitness, social integration, skills development and the list of positives go on. Never really photographed skaters before but I now have plenty of visual ideas that I want to work on with these guys.

Time to break out the fisheye I think!

Legal coverage

jfarber — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:31:38 +0000

These guys (Shammah Nichols – SNG) were really excellent to work with, easy going and very funny indeed. Matt Townsend (Ultimate) commissioned me for this shoot for their rebranding and new website profile pictures. With a simple brief and a workable budget I was able to deliver some cracking corporate yet relaxed looking pictures!

Eggchaser Study

jfarber — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:33:59 +0000

I have been covering the local rugby team for years but never really looked at it as a study article before. Armed with my 50mm lens I grabbed a few players and tried out a couple of shots before dragging the images into one of my digital image tools.

Oktoberfest

jfarber — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:36:24 +0000

This is a straight up press shoot, nothing fancy just clean shots at Mere Gold and Country Club in Knutsford, capturing the energy of the event, which was, pretty good I must admit.

2010 Tatton Triathlon

jfarber — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:31:07 +0000

Two days, over a 2000+ competitors and nothing but adrenalin driving everyone! The Tatton Triathlon offers so many angles and perspectives to shoot that I struggle to keep the picture count below 2000!

This year saw the Knutsford Tri Club on their first really local outing and naturally my time was spent on the sunday capturing as many of them as possible.

To be honest I am sick of the same old looking shots of these events, I prefer to visually and creatively toast as many of these people as possible for taking part it so, here is my take on it.

If anyone wishes to buy these great value for money, high-res digital versions and would like access to the main gallery please contact me for more information.

County Style

jfarber — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:56:41 +0000

What a great client! Clare, super active and much fitter than me! Really creative and relaxed making this shoot one of the best for ages! As with all portraits and pretty much any shoot, I dont really plan out the images, and I try to capture what i can, just like a normal press shoot, well my kind of press shoot that is.

Used two flashes here but since I lost my off camera cable i really have to work hard positioning the flash guns super accurately. I love outdoor flash photography and I rarely get to do it these days, appart from falling into the ditch ( after being warned about it) I managed to nail a few great shots

Clare was an ideal subject to shoot mainly because she was at ease with her surroundings who she is and more importantly ME! I prefer to shoot and chat, keeping things informal and loose making the time i spend with people on a job more enjoyable!

Hockey stands on ceremony

jfarber — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:29:08 +0000

It’s the beginning of the season for Knutsford Hockey Club and the sad departure of a real club treasure Janice T but what a send off. In this gallery you will see the effort that the club went to in organising a really great family fun day fundraiser. Granted the weather was unpredictable but wth regular breaks of sunshine everything looked smoothly run and very well managed.

I never know how I should be shooting those bungee things, low, long wide or what… With flash, without flash anyhoo i kinda did everything and picked the best ones. The horrid pink spinney roundy thing ( I say that because is really dislike white knuckle rides) was interesting to shoot, definitely a combination of a slower shutter, tight apature (thanks to the sunshine) and tracking with AI focus to get the results showing a point of focus and motion at the same time… get that?

More donkeys… had plenty of practice there… Loved the boy with the circus trick… he really practiced hard flicking it about until he took one to the face. I didn’t laugh. Honest.

So thats it, great work KHS look forward to next year and er… buy the Knutsford Guardian on wednesday (15th sept 2010) I am told that some of the shots will be in there.!

Board meeting.

jfarber — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:31:19 +0000

I watched the guy prepare this sensational olive board for a hungry customer. It took about 15 mins to fully stock and by the time it was ready to be served the camera was at the ready. The lighting in Via Via is pretty poor for photography and I didn’t feel like dragging the flash about so it was a question of adaptation or in this case really high iso…

A very civil affair

jfarber — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:13:18 +0000

Jonathan W is a old school friend of mine and when he asked me to photograph his wedding I was, a little apprehensive as it was the first civil partnership I would have shot. Why apprehensive? To be honest I have no idea, my guess is that I was stepping into the to unknown and with all gigs that are unknown I do get a little nervous.

Well the pressure was added to by the fact that I got stuck in traffic, luckily I knew Manchester pretty well having spent most of my childhood in the city ( fathers business – rag trade) I parked up in GMEX and hotfooted it over the the Registry office and with moments to go I recieved a text message from a rather anxious JW! “Where are you Jonathan?”

Anyhow the day was, as Jonathan put it, very colourful, and it was exactly that from the word go!. It’s a very social affair steeped in personalities and very engaging people making the job much smoother than a traditional hetro-wedding. Jonathan, Rob and I wandered off for some more personal shots of the guys wandering about casually before heading back to the restaurant for more pictures. I think I took about 600 or more shots in a few hours of pleasurable almost classic social photography!

First shoot of the season

jfarber — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:09:07 +0000

Great photoshoot but typical weather! Utterley horrid but the match was excellent! Knutsford beat Trafford MV ten million points to nil! kidding, I have no idea what the score was… I never do! I always get a few excited fans turning up halfway through the match only to ask me the fateful question..”Er, do you know what the score is mate?” I pretend I am Italian. “Sorry, English small”…..That was a complete lie.

Anyhow, I waffle on… This selection was not the easiest matchplay coverage jobs but it was good to see the home team inflict defeat on the visitors. I had to dock with the boot of the car and dry the gear off as it was really pouring but no sooner had I wrung out the cloth the sun came out and then promptly zipped behind a dark cloud!

A380 spotted in its native habitat, the sky. It was a momentary distraction that had all players staring up into the blue, I mean gray as it slowly moved overhead. if you are interested in the FULL gallery you can click here