Archives for category: Assignments

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008

An account of the Oxford University expedition along the InterOceanic Highway in Peru in which I participated has been published in the Orchid Digest VOLUME 74, NO. 3—July, August, September 2010. The photos in the article are a mixture of mine and the other expedition members. A summary of the project is available to read here. In 2008 a photographic exhibition from the journey was held at Canning House entitled Orquídeas Interoceánicas

Orchis Digest Volume 74 Cover

Epidendrum Secundum Orchid was found during the InterOcenaic scientific expedition to Peru from 1700 to 2300 meters near Limocpuco in Transect II. Orchid Digest Volume 74 Back Cover. Photo: Quintin Lake

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

VIEW MORE IMAGES of the Orchids here

VIEW MORE IMAGES of the Expedition here

VIEW MORE IMAGES of the Interoceanic Highway here

Brocklehurst Architects outside their office in West Wycombe (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Staff at Brocklehurst Architects (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Staff at Brocklehurst Architects (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Staff at Brocklehurst Architects (Photo: Quintin Lake)

An assignment of informal office portraits for West Wycombe based Brocklehurst Architects. Their brief was for corporate photojournalism style portraits to used on their print and online marketing, the clients wanted their realistic work environment portrayed without staged poses, lighting or props. See the rest of the shoot here

Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Oxfordshire based Developer Belmark Homes contacted me to reshoot a property as they felt the estate agent’s photographs didn’t do the property justice. Even though it looks like the estate agent used a wide angle lens and a tripod, which is better than most, the original pictures do not maximise the potential of the building. In my reshoot I have tried to convey the two strongest aspects of the house that are not conveyed in the first shoot: its rural setting and quality of materials and fittings. View my entire photoshoot of Fairlawne House here.

BEFORE Estate Agent's Front Exterior Photograph • Setting looks stark, like a housing estate not a rural setting • Building falls backwards, verticals not vertical • Sky highlights overexposed

AFTER: Front Exterior Photo by Quintin Lake • Leafy and quiet setting conveyed • verticals corrected

BEFORE: Estate Agent's Rear Exterior Photograph • Tree obscures building • Flat tonal exposure • Emphasis on less attractive facade of building

AFTER: Rear Exterior, Photo by Quintin Lake • Tree frames building • Attractive facade emphasised

BEFORE: Estate Agent's Kitchen Interior Photograph • Room appears small dark and gloomy • Off angle verticals distracting

AFTER: Kitchen Interior, Photo by Quintin Lake • Colour tone removed • perspective corrected • space lightened with off camera flash • room lights switched on add visual interest • wide angle lens shows width of room

BEFORE: Estate Agent's Bathroom Interior Photograph • bath room appears cold and small • doesn't show oak door or shower

AFTER: Bathroom Interior, Photo by Quintin Lake • warm tone added • oak door leads eye in to room and warms image • perspective corrected • wide angle lens used to include shower unit

Magdalen College School Prize Giving 2010 presentation of prizes by Peter Winter, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School

Peter Winter, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School presents the Coronation Cup to Clark Glasgow who attained 5 A* Grades

Peter Winter, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School

Timothy Hands, Headmaster of Magdalen College School School

Magdalen College School parents at the prizegiving

An assignment from Magdalen College School to document their Prize Giving 2010.

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

An assignment from Magdalen College School to document their Open Day 2010.

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Robert Lovick from OG Stonemasonry in Pembroke College Hall (photo © Quintin Lake)

Scaffolders at Pembroke College (photo © Quintin Lake)

Robert Lovick from OG Stonemasonry in Pembroke College Hall (photo © Quintin Lake)

Tony Molyneux from F & D Brown Brickwork. Pembroke College (photo © Quintin Lake)

Bob Cross M+E Consultant from G.F. Cross & Sons, Dimitri Harrisis Mechanical Consultant from Hoare Lea & Marion Brereton, Architect from Berman Guedes Stretton. (photo © Quintin Lake)

Ian Cook from Oxford Archaeology. Pembroke College. (photo © Quintin Lake)

Scaffolder at Pembroke College. (photo © Quintin Lake)

Bob Aller & Tony Molyneux from F & D Brown Brickwork. Pembroke College (photo © Quintin Lake)

Portraits of some of the construction team seen on site in September as part of a larger photographic documentation of the project.

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Coopers Chapel which also functions as a shelter for sheep. Slad Valley, Gloucestershire at dusk. Architect: Millar Howard Workshop

Interior of Coopers Chapel. The crucifix which makes up the Mullion and Transom is constructed from Bog Oak.

Facade of Coopers Chapel under the branches of an apple tree

The dark entrance adds to the drama of entering the adjacent bright prayer / mediation room

Coopers Chapel prayer / meditation space

The rural setting of Coopers Chapel at the edge of a field in Slad Valley, Gloucestershire

An architectural photography assignment from architects Millar Howard Workshop to photograph Coopers Chapel, Slad Valley, Gloucestershire. This building sits at the bottom of a garden looking out over the slad valley towards Stroud. It provides a small meditative space for individual or group meeting. It is built using the local Cotswold Stone and timeber. Various important details were created in collaboration with the client, a wood carver, using some unusual and special woods.

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Quince Tree Cottage, Rockness, Gloucestershire. Architect: Millar Howard Workshop

An assignment from architects Millar Howard Workshop to photograph Quince Tree Cottage in Rockness, Gloucestershire built in 2009. A large extension to an old Cotswold cottage. The architect’s idea was to build a new Cotswold stone building next to the original house and join the new and the old with a glazed link. Rather than try and match the stone of the original it was decided to build the new extension with a drystone facing to contrast the new and the old. Sliding folding doors open at a corner to allow the kitchen/dining room to spill out into the garden.

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010