cheshire wedding photographer – Ian thraves
Based in Wilmslow, Ian Thraves Photography operates a bespoke Wedding & Portrait service , covering Cheshire , Manchester and surrounding regions. Please click here to visit our dedicated Wedding and Portrait website. To find out more about wedding photography, call Ian on 01625 524018.
Celebrity profiles from Up North
Martin kemp The location was Manchester city centre and the event, Grimm Up North 2011. A few days ago I was asked by Festival Director, Simeon Halligan to photograph celebrity guests attending the event. I was generally given a 10 -15 minute time-slot to get the shots, which meant there was no time for error. Since [...]
Checkum campaign – back with rugged vengeance
Wayne Godwin and Ashley Gibson of Salford Reds are the latest rugby star duo brave enough to reveal all for Checkum. Wayne and Ashley were photographed for the campaign a few weeks ago at NPD studios in Leeds, a fantastic well-equipped and spacious facility for still and TV/movie shoots. The duration of the shoot was [...]
Boxing shoot – round one!
It was the day of the Royal wedding and rather than partaking in the offer of a Champaign breakfast and joining the nationwide party, I instead ventured in to Manchester to photograph a passionate group of male and female boxers in a location not far from Manchester City football ground. The shoot was initially organised for [...]
Ian’s nude image wins BIPP silver award
Portrait of a Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) Artist. The British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) regional award ceremony was recently held in Liverpool during the first weekend of April 2011. Although I couldn’t attend this year I was delighted to learn that I had won a silver award for one of two images that were [...]
Things that go bump in the light
My friend Jenny has featured as a model in many of my images over the past 10 years (see gallery below). As professional artist, Jenny is often game for ‘playing a role’ and shooting images with a twist but this time we had a different agenda, to capture a special moment in Jenny’s life. My aim [...]
Corporate portraits that are crème de la crème
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to shoot some corporate images for Graham Shapiro, owner of GSD (Graham Shapiro Design). Graham had recently won the Crème De La Crème business award, another to add to his ever-growing collection of awards. Graham required a variety of images for press releases, magazine articles and other [...]
Ex-Coronation Street’s Adam Rickitt – Checkum
The latest star to join in with the Checkum testicular cancer awareness campaign is ex-Coronation Street actor and music star, Adam Rickitt. Joined by my regular Art Director, Andrea and Make-up Artist, Sadaf Saeed we photographed Adam in Manchester at Slaughterhouse studios around a week ago. This time, some additional video footage was captured during [...]
The making of a successful celebrity shoot
For around 20 years I have been involved in photographing celebrities, whether it be capturing the action during a TV or Film shoot, or a private commission to shoot an individual for a publication or advertising campaign. I’ll now describe how we execute a successful celebrity shoot, from start to finish. Firstly, teamwork and planning [...]
Future Checkum images to be shot on Nikon D3x
Above – Nikon D3x test shot. Those who have been following my blog posts and Twitter ‘tweets’ will be aware that I have been approaching top camera manufacturers for a higher resolution camera body for use on future Checkum shoots (see previous Checkum blog posts). I am delighted to publish that Nikon UK have responded [...]
Monty Halls joins in with Checkum
Yesterday, I traveled to London to shoot another celebrity for the Checkum testicular cancer awareness campaign. Keep following my blog to find out who braved all to camera this time – all will be revealed soon! In the meantime, I have posted another campaign poster. View my past blog entries for other posts relating to [...]
Ian’s ‘Checkum’ images appear on TV
BBC Bargain Hunt presenter, Jonathan Pratt was one of the latest celebrities to take part in ‘Checkum’, the ongoing testicular cancer awareness campaign where celebrities bravely shed their clothes in the name of charity (see here for further details). Over the past few months I have been commissioned by sponsors, Famousmales to photograph those who [...]
Latest shoot – X Factor’s Laura White
Monday the 1st of November took me to a central Manchester studio to photograph star of X Factor, Laura White. The photos were taken mostly for merchandising purposes for Laura’s current tour with Peter Andre, for the cover of her new tour CD, plus her website and Twitter site – more info on Laura’s blog [...]
Shoot your friends and be free!
Commissioned photo assignments take up much of my time and style and subject matter are mostly dictated by the needs of the client, which can sometimes stifle creativity. Therefore, during those rare occasions when jobs are not running back-to-back, I sometimes find a window of opportunity to shoot whatever I want, whether it be for [...]
Going, going, gone: Latest shoot in Sussex
Click any image to view larger version. A recent overnight photo shoot took me to Billingshurst in West Sussex, where I was assigned to shoot Jonathan Pratt, Managing Director of Bellmans Auctioneers and star of BBC 1′s Bargain Hunt. The location was a four hour Journey away from my home near Manchester, but thankfully it [...]
Cast and crew of movie – ‘The Descent 2′
Click image for larger view My friend Simeon Halligan and partner Rachel Richardson-Jones recently organised Manchester horror film festival – Grimmfest. In addition to screening Simeon’s own feature film ‘Splintered’, the festival is also hosting a number of other films within the Horror genre and includes interactive events such as public signings and Q and A [...]
Shooting on the fly
James Pritchard (Pro Rugby player – Bedford Blues) Click any image for larger view Recent commercial shoots have taken me up and down the country, from Bedford to Chester to Hartlepool – all in one week! Planning the shoot around the client’s brief is essential and I have therefore developed a list containing a [...]
Model Portfolio – Portia
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A LARGER VIEW This set of images show the results of a half day shot with aspiring model, Portia. The shoot took place on location at a friend’s house, using her entrance hall as a makeshift studio, followed by locations in her back garden – all were taken in just [...]
Low-key lighting (pregnant nude)
Low-key lighting is a technique where normally only one light source is utilised and can be a fantastic way to create images of the nude body without revealing too much. In addition, because only selected areas of the subject are illuminated, the lighting can be controlled to achieve a far more flattering image than, for [...]
New hair salon photo shoot for Artisan
Following on from my blog entry of June the 25th 2008 (click here to see entry), I recently worked again with Artisan Hair and Beauty, based in Buxton. This time, the images were created for the 2009 Wella Trend Vision hair competition and HJ magazine. The shoot took the best part of a day and [...]
Recent personal work – how it was created
Click on any image for a larger view I have recently produced a flyer and business card to promote ‘stylish portraiture’ and therefore needed a few new images that would work together as a theme. I have placed a few of the resulting images here with a description of how they were created for those [...]
Ian’s pics in hot women’s magazine – ‘Scarlet’
Following on from my blog entry of last November the 12th, the photos of Robbie Williams look-alike, Tony Lewis have finally been published in the current issue of Scarlet, a national UK women’s magazine. I was pleased to find that one image was used as a double page spread …but no doubt I will be [...]
Beware the digital amateur!
click image to view larger version Amateur digital photographers have definitely affected many photography markets, especially those that only require ‘straight’ and unimaginative images, such as (on the most part) the wedding photography market. Sadly, many potential wedding clients are making the mistake of commissioning ‘uncle Joe’ to shoot their wedding because ‘he owns a decent [...]
