The food photography industry is big business. Companies spend large marketing budgets to make their food products look their best and use those images in advertising campaigns in various ways, getting as many people as possible to see their tasty bites. But sometimes, more often than not, food being photographed is not a true representation of what is actually bought and consumed. Recently, Burger King is being sued because the photos in their adverts show their burgers look much bigger compared to what customers purchased in stores. This isn’t the first for Burger King. In 2012, the UK’s ..read more

RESEARCH PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY When browsing images online, you will notice the vast difference in images. On social media, some brands will take images on mobile phones, maybe do a few tweaks to the photographs, add filters etc. They may have built up a following and for consistency it works best to stick to that style of photography. Sometimes this type of photography is the best option. Some brands hire professional photographers for all of their social media content, in order for each post to look as well presented as possible. Some brands use a mix of mobile phone photography and profess ..read more

Hello again, I am wanting to show some watch photography images I worked on recently. I actually completed this work around 4 months ago but time is needed to be given to the clients to use the images before I post the content online. I was asked to shoot a range of smart watches produced by the brand Watchd. The products are heavily influenced by the Apple iwatch. They needed product photography to show off their watches, the product images are one of the main marketing tools used for many brands, the images are used on their own website, on other e-commerce websites, social media marketing ..read more

I was asked to shoot for a local Vodka brand called ‘Monk’, They needed content making for their social media and google ads etc. There was a lot of variety to the content which is great. MOst of the drinks photography I did was studio based but also when on several Manchester location shoots for these brand images. I have more images than what is shown here on my Instagram page.   Instagram: phillippilkington Facebook: Phillip Pilkington manchester creative photographer manchester creative photographer creative photographer creative photographer drinks photographer manchester d ..read more

  Chrome products are difficult objects to photography, but these are on another level, so much retouching to get this look. Shoot for Remington. Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/phillippilkington/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phillippilkington/ Website: https://www.phillippilkington.com/ Thanks, Phill ..read more

Remington RX5 head shaver on broken glass When setting up this shot, the social media team asked for it to be shot straight on camera view onto broken glass. Well the glass was super hard to break, couldn’t smash it. In the end we used a nail and a hammer. I set-up the lighting and the camera in the studio, the shot wasn’t working to start with. When seen straight on you couldn’t see the reflection, it didn’t look like it was on glass. I decided this shot can work but we need to change the camera angle, it took a while to change the set-up completely but we got the shot and I am well happy ..read more

Advertising photography taken by me… Phillip Pilkington. Manchester based Product Photographer. Elbow Grease, cleans stuff well. To do this image I photographed the bottle on it’s own with no hand, I did a focus stacked image for maximum sharpness. Then I took a photo of the hand around the bottle for a separate shot, made it all work in photoshop. Job done. I did actually have a blue background for the image, I also did a white background option on the day. To see the behind the scenes photo of how this image was made please visit my Facebook photography page.    Facebook: https ..read more

I have been shooting the Remington Advanced Coconut Therapy range of haircare products. Quite good products to work with, the strong colours help these types of electronic product ranges stand out. There’s some chrome elements which need careful lighting treatment in the studio. Hair dryers seem to be more difficult to photograph then the other haircare products like the wands or straighteners. The studio set-up images can be seen on my Facebook photography page. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phillippilkington/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/phillippilkington ..read more

advertising photography manchester I did a shoot before lockdown of the new Remington Hydrolux hair straightener. It has a unique feature which is steam comes out as your using it on your hair. The feature has a open outlet where the steam comes out and this aspect is something that needed to be shown well in the photography. When the straighteners are closed you can’t see the shape of the outlet well, so I needed to do a composite image, I photographed the straighteners open, then photographed them closed, each time doing an image stack to get high quality image. I could then use the ope ..read more

I worked on a food shoot in Manchester with a food stylist Tom Citarella which was a Christmas food shoot, not too over the top on the Christmas props which is something that I think works well. The food is mainly a Wellington, not a traditional one but Chef Tom was telling me how it’s not really a Wellington but it has to be called something. All the normal trimmings around it which helps frame the shot nicely. Can be tricky to get the over head shots but the big camera stand comes in very useful for shots like this. Also because of time restrictions I used the same lighting set-up for bo ..read more