Archive for the ‘Tearsheets & Publications’ Category

A little birthday tearsheet to help me celebrate!  One of my favourite ever fire photos is published in today’s Bournemouth Echo.

The subject is Simon Chainey at his Southern Lights Festival back in June.

It’s been a week of firsts.  My first Indian wedding, my first wedding in London and today I receive a copy of my first South African publication!

Good times indeed.

I photographed Leigh in August 2009, on the morning of the day when she won her IFBB Bikini pro card.  We were shooting in the not so glamorous Richmond / Airport area of Vancouver.  We decided to move the shoot part way through because we were all getting bitten to death by mosquitoes.  I was quite well covered, but Leigh, obviously couldn’t be and I was a little worried the bites might effect her chances in the competition later that day.

With the help of Dean, her then fiancée, now husband, we had a great shoot as I hope these photos show.

Interesting use of the photos by MEM, cutting out the backgrounds is not something that magazines normally do to this extent.  Looks good though!

Big thank you to Muscle Evolution Magazine and of course to the stunning Leigh Brandt.

It’s been quite a long time since my last photo was published in Planet Muscle magazine, but the dry spell is over with a little help with IFBB fitness star Larissa Reis.  We shot just a day after Olympia in Las Vegas in 2009 so Larissa was in amazing shape having just stepped off stage a few hours before.

Buy it now!

With, if I’ve counted correctly 183 models, almost 200 full colour photos, this is a rather big little black book.  All of the photographs included are from outdoor on location shoots from all over the place.  Countries include Malta, England, Wales, USA and Canada.  While cities include London, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and even little old Winnipeg!

I’m self publishing a book of photos.  I’m calling it “Michael Palmer’s Little Black Book of Scantily Clad Women”.

With all the positive thinking in the world I don’t expect to make much money from it.  Self publishing in this case means printing on demand, and that brings the cost price of the book up hugely.  I expect the selling price to be around £35 for the hard back edition, and sadly I won’t be making much of a profit on that.

However, I hope it’s going to generate a bit of fun publicity

I’m after opinions on these design ideas.

Will they get a reaction?

The moose is my general business card, and the others are pitched at weddings, family & children and fitness photography.

It’s been a long time coming, but finally my canvas prints website thisisthepicture.com is finished and online.  For now there are 48 canvas prints available, from subjects as wide ranging as a ballet leap to a seagull.

At the moment I’m only offering prints for sale in the UK.  Logistically sending canvas prints to North American isn’t going to be easy (or cheap).  However if there is demand I’ll figure out a way and maybe source a supplier / manufacturer in the USA or Canada.

Please take a look.  The world of e-commerce is a new beast to me, so any constructive feedback will be gratefully received.

The latest issue of Robert Kennedy s Oxygen magazine arrived on my doormat this morning.  In the Future of Fitness section is a tiny photo of Christine Taylor from our shoot last summer in Quebec City.

It was my first and to date only shoot in Quebec City so I didn’t really have much idea for locations.  Christine suggested we shoot in the Parc des Champs de Bataille.

The weather can best be described as “meh“.  It was a rather cold mid Septembers day, the sky was grey, and it was all a bit rubbish.

We started shooting in the park.  Nothing sexy or provocative – just “Oxygen” type fitness shots.  Brrr it was cold.  I was in my coat and gloves so after doing a few shots I suggested we move somewhere lower (we were on top of a big hill) in the hope of finding somewhere a little more sheltered from the wind.  At the same time we were leaving a police car pulled up – I figured it was just doing its rounds and making sure nobody stole any tress or something, so I didn’t think anything of it.

We found another spot in the park and were about to start shooting again when the same police car pulls up and out gets the obviously very bored policeman.  Clearly not enough crime in Quebec City.  He muttered something at me in an angry tone in French, which of course I understood nothing off.  He translated and said something about naked girls in the park…  I was bemused because a) there was sadly no nakedness, b) there wasn’t anyone else around, and c) this cop was being a complete and utter dick.

He moved us on, we found a better location, the sun came out, and everyone was happy!

I’ve almost never had a problem with doing photoshoots in Canada.  The only other place in Canada I’ve had an issue is when trying to shoot in the park where they hold the formula 1 grand prix in Montreal.  The rest of Canada, never a problem.  Ever.  Pains me to say because I love Canada, but Quebec is weird!

Whoop!

I was just sent the above photo by my friend, model, and client Karla Adams.

She’s used the tearsheet (right hand window) from a magazine which featured one of our photos from a shoot in Las Vegas and got it printed up real big for one of the windows of her new gym.

The gym is in Riverside, California.

It looks great Karla! 

www.karlaadams.com

Pash you are missed.

RIP.

(Published in the third issue of the 4Networking 4Community Magazine)