My Heroes

Photographers are always asking me to recommend suppliers. So I thought it was about time I shared a few of the greats on here. 
And in this first post I bring you the wonderful, the smiley, the multitasking wonders that are Hero.

I love these girls, Kate & Helena, and they run a wonderful team.
They're currently branching out from their roots in TV production to Stills shoot production and are also offering a helping hand to photographers looking to take steps into moving imagery.

Here's Hero in their own words . . .

HERO supports photographers by offering full production services for advertising, editorial and corporate clients. 

We handle briefs for both still and moving images. Often at the same time.

It’s really simple, whatever your brief we can help you turn it into a reality, leaving you free to focus on taking the best shots.

Services include:

Pre-production / Production / Post-production

Lighting / Studio / Kit / Crew / Casting / Locations

Set Build / Props / Wardrobe / Make-up / Styling

Permits / Visas / Transport / Hotels / Catering

Budgets/ Risk Assessment / Insurance / Paperwork

I've employed them before and think they're tops. Check out their website here. <==

Thoughts For Photographers

Before I meet with photographers for me 1hr consult sessions I ask them to bring a list of questions. And recently a really interesting one cropped up. . .

"What's the trick to getting my work/life balance right?"

A really great question I thought and one, if you're honest, we've all considered at one time or another.
The thing is the answer is ridiculously simple. So incredibly simple. They are utterly the same thing, or they should be anyway.

If you're working in any kind of creative discipline you're pretty much a creative right down to your bones. So you're never off the clock, not truly.
Photographers when out from behind the lens are walking down the street and spotting the way light hits a building, or eating an apple that reminds them to explore the notions of gravity in a new personal project.
You are constantly absorbing your surroundings and this all feeds into you work.

This is not a job folks and if it's starting to feel like one then something isn't quite right.