Prom Night Photography

Prom nights are really getting popular. They are a great way to celebrate the end of year and a chance to dress up and feel special. Our Prom night photography is a way to remember the occasion.

We are happy to attend your prom night and set up our mobile studio. We have a large white screen as well as professional studio lighting to get a wonderful photograph of the guests in small groups or with their partner. We are also set up to make prints on the night (within minutes) which is mounted and presented in a protective film bag. A percentage of sales will be given to the organiser. You can rest assured that we are fully covered by Public Liability insurance.

After the event we can post the images from the night into a special password protected gallery so family members can log in and purchase duplicate images or enlargements. We are also able to offer stunning laminated canvas prints, stretch wrapped and ready to hang and beautiful elegant acrylic panels which make wonderful wall art.

We can also take documentary photos of the event should you require this service!

We have experience of photographing many such events previously at venues such as Crannage Hall, Wychwood Park and Crewe Hall. We can also cover guest speak-speaker events where guests can be photographed with the guest speaker and have their image signed on the night as well as black tie balls or corporate events! Please feel free to get in touch to discuss how our event photography can help you raise extra funds at your event!

 

Prom Night Photography from Simon J. Newbury Photography. Event Photographer

Prom Night Photography from Simon J. Newbury Photography

 

Band Photography Special Offer

The month of May means Crewe Live. We have been the official photographers to Crewe Live for four years now and we are very much looking forward to photographing this years music event.

To celebrate we are running a special offer on our band promo photography. The offer runs throughout the month of May and gets a full band shoot, either studio or location, for just £65!

We have photographed many bands both local unsigned bands and nationwide touring bands including: Elbow, Sham 69, Funeral for a Friend, Flaming Lips, Dodgy, The Bluetones, Human Condition, Son of Shinobi, Junker, Skeletal Damage and Kill The Doctor…

As well as being published regularly locally and online our work has featured in many nationwide magazines including a full page poster in Kerrang! We can help get your band some attention!

Here is some info on our music photography special offer:

band, music, promo, photography, special, offer, Crewe, Live, Cheshire

Band Promo Photography special offer details

The bands on our poster are Pulled Apart By Horses photographed during last year’s Crewe Live and Son Of Shinobi.

Check out more of our music photography.

Andy Hamilton & Jamie Caven Photography

We have been offering event photography to WTD Promotions for a while now. We have been pleased to photograph many leading professional darts players including Terry ‘The Bull’ Jenkins, Simon ‘The Wizard’ Whitlock, Andy ‘The Pieman’ Smith and Kevin ‘The Artist’ Painter.

The latest exhibition event saw Andy ‘The Hammer’ Hamilton and Jamie ‘Jabba’ Caven head to Crewe for a great evening of darts. As with all the other players we made a portrait of each player as well as offered our event photography. We are able to photograph fans with the famous players which are then printed immediately and signed so the customer can take the print away with them there and then!

Our events ‘photobooth’ is available for parties, guest speakers or proms. If you are organising an event get in touch to see what we offer!

The latest portraits of Andy and Jamie:

Andy 'The Hammer' Hamilton portrait photograph. Darts professional photography

Andy ‘The Hammer’ Hamilton

Jamie 'Jabba' Caven portrait photograph. Darts professional photography

Jamie ‘Jabba’ Caven portrait photograph. Darts professional photography

The Eyres Promo/ Live Photography

Local band The Eyres have recently undergone a lineup change as well as a change in name. We have provided photography for the band in it’s Sink Or Swim guise. They have also headlined the charity event we organise every year at The Box in Crewe, called Boxjam. Since that performance there has been the changeover of members and the new branding of the band as ‘The Eyres’.

New members means new promo photos so ahead of an article in the local Chronicle and another headline slot at The Box we produced a set of images for the newly named band. We got a nice range of group shots as well as some individual portraits of the band members.

The Eyres have just released a new EP. Their logo was designed by Tina who as well as being a photographer at Simon J. Newbury Photography also does all the graphic design for our bespoke wedding books and does various logo and artwork designs.

These are a few of the promo group photos:

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

Crewe band The Eyres promo/ promotional photography. Music photography South Cheshire

The Eyres performing Live at The Box, Crewe:

The Eyres Live At The Box, Crewe, music photography

The Eyres Live At The Box, Crewe

The Eyres Live At The Box, Crewe, music photography

The Eyres Live At The Box, Crewe

The Eyres new logo, courtesy of Tina:

The Eyres Logo designed by Tina Newbury

The Eyres Logo designed by Tina Newbury

Check out some of our band promo photography here.

Press Photography: Crewe to Nantwich Greenway

Wednesday March 20th saw the official opening of the Crewe to Nantwich Greenway and the unveiling of the Portrait Bench. We were commissioned to produce the official photography for Cheshire East.

The event was well attended with cyclists, walkers, horses and ponies joining the Mayors of Crewe and Cheshire East at the ribbon cutting. We were also joined by a Roman Centurion, a train engineer and a civil war soldier (all the figures used to form the portrait bench).

The Greenway runs alongside Alvaston Hall and connects Crewe and Nantwich for horse riders, cyclists, dog walkers and ramblers alike.

Simon photographing the Mayors of Crewe & Cheshire East. Press Photography

Simon photographing the Mayors of Crewe & Cheshire East

 

The Mayors of Crewe & Cheshire East cut the ribbon. Press Photography

The Mayors of Crewe & Cheshire East cut the ribbon

The soldier, Roman Centurion and train engineer on the Portrait Bench. Press Photography

The soldier, Roman Centurion and train engineer on the Portrait Bench

 

George Borowski Portrait

You may have seen or heard our new show ‘The Backstage Pass‘. Its a regular cloudcast presented by Simon and produced by Tina. We are both passionate about local live music and we are the official photographers to local music venue The Box as well as at Crewe Live. The show is designed to showcase local music as well as unsigned bands.

A big part of the show are the sessions. We record our acoustic sessions over at The Rising Sun and exclusive electric sessions are recorded at Project 9 Studio, in Northwich. The sessions are a wonderful addition to the show! We had the pleasure of recording the legend that is George Borowski. George is an amazing musician who has worked with the likes of Radiohead, REM, Tina Turner and Pixies. We decided that we would allow George to simply ‘take to the stage’ in front of a small invited audience and we would record the result as a special show. Special is not the word! Those that were there will remember the ‘gig’ for years to come! The show will be available very soon.

After the show we did a portrait shoot with George. The local landscape was perfect for the Urban Portrait series and so George is the latest person to feature in the series!

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

George Borowski recording sessions for The Backstage Pass

The Urban portrait of George Borowski:

George Borowski Urban Portrait by Simon J. Newbury Photography

George Borowski Urban Portrait by Simon J. Newbury Photography

 

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity Photography

Quite recently we had the privilege of photographing Crewe Alexandra goalkeeper Steve Phillips on the pitch at the Alexandra Stadium. We’ve also worked with the talented Tom Seals many times. The two are working together to raise funds for two charities. We obviously were very keen to help so did the photography of the pair for publicity purposes!

Tom is including the club fans favourite ‘Blue Moon’ on his upcoming album release and the track will be released as a charity single. The funds will be for Leukemia & Lymphoma Research and Caudwell Children.

Tom’s Pledge page is here: Tom Seals Music Pledge

Keep up to date with Steve’s Fundraising efforts on his Facebook page: Steve Phillips Fundraising Facebook Page

You can even pledge for a set of these signed photos on Tom’s page!

We are very proud to be involved and wish the pair all the very best in their efforts!

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

Steve Phillips & Tom Seals Charity photography

 

Press Photography: Ed Miliband visit to Pickmere, Crewe

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of HM Opposition paid a visit to Crewe on Thursday. A Q&A session was held at Wulvern’s Pickmere Court.

I’ve done press assignments of this nature quite regularly including a commission to photograph the Labour Party Conference last year in Manchester. It was nice to have an assignment so close to home!

I’d previously visited Pickmere Court, off Badger Avenue, for another Press assignment last year.

Mr Miliband held an hour long Q&A session with residents and covered many topics put to him by the audience.

Ed Miliband MP visit to Crewe for a Q & A Session

Ed Miliband MP visit to Crewe for a Q & A Session

Ed, Miliband, MP, Pickmere, Court, Wulvern,

Ed Miliband MP visit to Crewe

Oli Ng EP Artwork Photoshoot

My good friend Oli of Sink or Swim fame, now called The Eyres, is soon to be releasing a solo EP. Oli has an amazing talent for someone so young. I was really proud to be asked to work on the artwork for his debut solo EP. Oli also appeared in my Urban Portrait series.

We sat down and had a good chat about the sort of image he wanted for both front and back. I’ve previously worked on artwork for releases from Thick As Thieves, The Longshanks, Son Of Shinobi, Tim Gallagher, James Gardiner, Steve Bonham, Midnight Lycan Party, Chloe and Jon Tarplee. It’s always important to sit down and moot ideas before heading into a shoot. Thankfully we came up with our idea for front and back and decided on some locations.

We headed out to Queens Park, Crewe and thankfully the weather was on our side! The park has a wealth of locations and I have often shot wedding couple shots there. I was also busy photographing the stills for a few scenes of Gridiron UK. The late afternoon light was perfect for some moody monochrome photographs and we got all the photographs we wanted.

We then headed off to Sandbach for our indoors part of the shoot. I have to say a huge thank you to the staff at The Old Hall. Such a lovely place and they were very kind to allow us time to photograph there. The backdrop of the open fire and old fashioned wall decor and windows created exactly the mood that Oli was looking for.

You can check out some of my music promo work on the website here.

These are some of the final images from the shoot:

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

 

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

Oli Ng Promotional Music Photography

 

 

 

Urban Portrait Photography by Night

Since the summer of 2012 I have been shooting the Urban Portrait series. I had always been interested in photographing the urban landscape and as an accomplished portrait photographer the series has become a huge passion.

I was really moved to get a foreword to the series from the hugely talented rock photographer Ian Tilton. Ian has just released his new book on the Stone Roses and is famous for his iconic images of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and the Manchester music scene.

The ongoing project is hopefully destined to become a book and I am currently looking for partners. These partners will get an advert within the book as well as  package of goodies! Please do get in touch if you would like to be involved!

As a slight side project I undertook a few Urban Portraits with a difference. These are Urban Portraits by Night. I had two volunteers, Max and Connor and we hooked up in Crewe to do some portraits under the yellow/ orange glow of street lighting. My flash lighting needed to be slightly different to the day Urban Portraits as I wanted to maintain that colour cast. The experiment worked very well and the two images work very well as part of the overall Urban Portrait series!

I am also available for private commissions. If you fancy your own shoot then make a booking and you can select a location. Its just £49 and the price includes an 18×12 inch print of your favourite image!

 

Urban, portrait, Crewe, Cheshire, Simon J. Newbury Photography

Night Urban Portrait by Simon J. Newbury Photography

Urban, portrait, Crewe, Cheshire, Simon J. Newbury Photography

Night Urban Portrait by Simon J. Newbury Photography