As I mentioned in the introduction to this post a short while ago, “What do you do?” my commission to shoot Royal Navy recruitment advertisements for Y&R Rainey Kelly was far and away the most complicated shoot I have ever done. There were 6 print ads that we shot all over the UK starting on the Isle of Skye in Scotland and including the beaches of Cornwall, the bridge of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth and finishing on the canals of Camden in London. In this post I am going to show how we took the ‘Navy Sub’ from a line drawing to a finished ad.

I’ve been going through a lot of old work recently as 2009 was a bit of a milestone, 20 years of taking photographs.

I was shooting for the fire service recently and on one shift in Bristol I was attending call outs which meant the whole shebang of getting into a jacket and hurrying to the trucks. During the evening we were all enjoying a home cooked roast meal when another call took us away. When I came back they had marked my plate with ‘Film Bloke’. Lovely!