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The story behind a photo of a plastic bottle or: A (slightly defensive) response to a comment posted on my Sony A7rii review

By Hamish Gill / February 26, 2017 / Philosophy & Reflections / 51 Comments

The above is a photo of a bottle that me and Janine (my studio photographer at F8) recently took for a client.

Quite boring isn’t it? Though, technically it’s quite a good photo of an empty plastic bottle. There is an anecdotal reason for me showing you this picture, but I’ll get to that later. First I want to post a (slightly defensive) response(/rant) to a comment that was posted on my recent Sony A7rii review.

The 50mm Sonnar gets a workout in the Gym

By Hamish Gill / September 26, 2015 / Photos & Projects / 2 Comments

A good mate of mine, Gianni, is setting up a company to sell high quality weight lifting apparel. As part of his bid to sell this apparel he needed a brand and website setting up. Since I own a company, F8 Creates, that creates brands and makes websites he came to us. As part of …

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Faye and Family – A Family shoot with a difference

By Hamish Gill / June 12, 2015 / Photos & Projects / Leave a Comment

These are the last of the first batch of photos I have had back from UK Film Lab. Although they look like conventional family shots, they were actually shot for Faye’s business, a company called Eden Aromatics. She is launching a women’s wellbeing programme and wanted some promotional lifestyle type shots that are reflective of …

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Ma Baker – Behind the scenes at a local bakery

By Hamish Gill / June 11, 2015 / Photos & Projects / 4 Comments

Where appropriate I’ve been subtly introducing a little bit of film photography in to my working day. In this instance the brief was to capture the hustle and bustle of the behind the scenes action of a small local bakery – Ma Bakers