The long and the short of it…

February 27, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve had the pleasure of being asked to be Director of Photography by writer and director, Richard Plumley, on his short film URMA (working title). This is a grab portrait of lead actor, Matt Corcoran. The film also stars local lady, Janine Lashmar. My youngest son, Ric, who joined us as a runner, was promoted to sound recordist within five minutes of arriving on set. Filmmaking is a bit of a first for me, I’ve done a small amount of […]

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View from a Mju II

February 25, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I bought a second hand Olympus Mju II film camera a while back, these are a few photos from the first couple of rolls of Kodak Portra 160/400. I’m really inspired at the moment by the work of Ondra Loup, Bryan Ferry and Andi Otten (Otty the light stealer…), three photographers who use whatever cameras they have with them at the time to create beautiful images of everyday objects and situations.

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Mono

February 23, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been taking photos, on and off, mainly on, for the last 25 years and I still can’t quite get my head around black and white film. I’ll see the work of another photographer and think ‘Right, that’s it, I’m only shooting mono from now-on because their photos look so damned good’, I then load a couple of cameras up with Kodak T-Max or Fuji Neopan and off I go. I don’t think I’ve ever shoot more than a couple […]

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Photographically gay.

February 19, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

It hasn’t gone unnoticed that I photograph men more than women, friends of friends have inquired as to my sexual orientation, many times. I’m straight. But men are generally easier to photograph than women. This is a shot I took of Lockett Somerville at is home in Ramsey. This isn’t the actual shot I went for, I’ll post that soon, but I do like this out-take. I lit Lockett with a single Bowens Streamlite with another smaller Streamlite to fill […]

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This week…

February 4, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve been photographing musicians, mostly. Last Monday I had the band ‘3 Million‘ in the studio, they didn’t bat an eyelid when I told them I was going to bind them all together with cling-film for half an hour. I’ve seen these chaps play a couple of times, I recommend you do the same. On Wednesday I had a second session with the yet unnamed duo, Adam Jones and Geoff Tinkler. This pair are VERY photogenic! We started […]

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