Duncan Philpott

Duncan Philpott is a photojournalist and the genre of photograph that he takes is action sports and adventure. Because he is also a freelance photographer and doesn't just work for one company. Within his job he has many different aspects to it such as photojournalism, editorial, commercial, personal, intagrammin and also the paperwork aspect.

He says that:
 Photojournalism is- taking photos of everything and capturing the moment
Editorial is- coming up with ideas and telling a story
Commercial is- Working to a brief, advertising, selling a product
Personal- Freedom to do what you want, just do it and impress

Working to a brief...

Duncan explained what it was like whilst working to a brief and what this actually entails he gave us three examples of briefs that he has been given and what steps went into completing the work to those specific briefs.

The first brief that he showed to us was the latest one that he had been asked to complete by Sheffield City Centre. It was an outdoor city campaign and his photos had to depict Sheffield's key outdoor sports strengths. They also had to show the city as an attractive destination to tourists and had to show the outdoor greenery against the cityscape. The images also had to look real and believable and so they couldn't look like they had been photoshopped.  They had to be believable so that the client could advertise.

He only had to give five images in but these five images had to be the best ones that he had taken. These images had to rebrand the city, give it a new identity and also help to increase tourism. He had one week to complete this and over that one week he took 3600 photos and all he needed was one photo for each of the five different sports.

Location and planning- To find the best locations he told us to use local knowledge and also google maps. He said that you should also visit the location that you are planning to shoot in just in case there is a problem with that location that you didn't know about. Also the light position needs to be scouted, a shoot schedule needs to be made, and finally if you need models you need to find out what times they are available.

Editing- Duncan uses Lightroom/ Adobe Bridge- he says to evaluate each photo and star rate them (1 star is okay, 5 stars great) he says that this is a great way of saving time and it makes it easier to find the photos that you want by pressing a rating. He also says to rename the files on import to save time too. He says to Rename them with the Name, Location and a Number.