Posted by Cleggy on Sep 5, 2010 in
Location shoot,
PR
Today I met up with Irish Motorcycle Racer, Commercial Manager to H&J Martin and thoroughly decent bloke Kirk Jamison to do a location shoot, at Hillsborough Forest Park, with Aisling Gorman-McGeough to give Kirk the final few images to complete his 2011 promotional Calendar.
The Calendar will be sold to help raise some funds for Kirk’s racing and it will consist of only my Photographs; some from todays shoot, some from a previous location shoot on the shore of Strangford Lough and some of my Race action Photographs.
Today’s shoot was close to being cancelled due to the Wind and the Rain, but we persevered and managed to come up with some decent images despite the persistent Rain.
For this shot I used my Nikon Camera body, a Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VR lens and Two remote strobes.
Tags: Aisling Gorman-McGeough, Hillsborough, Hillsborough Forest Park, Kirk Jamison, Nikon, Nikon 70-200mm VR f2.8, Strangford Lough
Posted by Cleggy on Sep 2, 2010 in
PR
As I blog this, myself and the Editor of Irish Racer Magazine have just returned home from a short trip over to the Manx Grand Prix in the Isle of Man.
It was a low pressure trip where we went with the intention of working on a couple of features for issue #99 of Irish Racer Magazine due in the shops in early October. The Weather, Food and ‘banter’ could not have been better and it was just what the Doctor ordered!
Issue #98 of Irish Racer will hit the shops tomorrow and just like waiting for Buses, I have one of my Photographs of Keith Amor from the recent Armoy Road Races used as this months front cover image. Inside I have up to a dozen other images published in another excellent issue which this month features Keith Amor, Dean Harrison, Dan Sayle, Bruce Anstey and all the regular columns from Guy Martin, Jeremey McWilliams, John McGuinness etc
Tags: Armoy Road Races, Bruce Anstey, Dan Sayle, Dean Harrison, Guy Martin, Irish Racer Magazine, Isle of Man, Jeremey McWilliams, John McGuinness, Keith Amor, Manx Grand Prix
Posted by Cleggy on Aug 5, 2010 in
PR
Issue #97 (August 2010) of Irish Racer Magazine hit the Shop Shelves this morning. This is the Ulster Grand Prix preview issue and it also features the Laverty Brothers (Eugene Laverty, John Laverty, Michael Laverty), a remarkable story of Three Brothers from Northern Ireland all competing at a very high level in Motorcycle racing (one vying to be Supersport World Champion this year!).
Also within the pages of this Months Irish Racer magazine is features on Simon Andrews, Michael Pearson, Sandor Bitter, David Haire, Ulster Grand Prix and Manx Grand Prix previews and the usual Monthly columns from the likes of Jonathan Rea.
It has been another excellent issue for myself in that I have Twenty of my Photographs published in the Magazine this Month including the front cover Photograph from a recent Photo shoot of the Laverty Brothers.
Tags: David Haire, Eugene Laverty, Irish Racer Magazine, John Laverty, Jonathan Rea, Manx Grand Prix, Michael Laverty, Michael Pearson, Motorcycle racing, Northern Ireland, Photographs, Sandor Bitter, Simon Andrews, Supersport, Ulster Grand Prix, World Champion
Posted by Cleggy on Jul 20, 2010 in
PR
The August issue of Irish Bike Newspaper is now in the Shops. Whilst down at Kirkistown for the July round of the Irish Superbike championship Races I bumped in to Mark Hamilton the Editor and he asked me to supply him with a few images from the racing as his regular ‘togs’ were absent. I was more than happy to assist Mark despite him being an Evertonian!
Tags: Irish Bike Newspaper, Irish Superbike championships, Kirkistown
Posted by Cleggy on Jul 19, 2010 in
Bike Racing,
PR
Ask any Road racing fan to name an iconic image of Irish Motorcycle racing and the bets odds are a heck of a lot of them will mention the jumps at the Kells Road races in County Meath. Photographers’ images from these jumps have been used on countless Magazines, Newspapers, Books, Calendars, Race Programmes etc and go a long way to promote the event, attracting sponsors money to the races.
This year the Kells club and Chief Marshal agreed that only Five accredited, insured photographers at any one time could Photograph at either jump, a fair and amicable agreement on the grounds of safety. Then about Ten minutes prior to the start of practice that agreement was over-ruled by the powers that be and we were told that no Photographer could shoot the jumps except from the same areas that the public can shoot from. Needless to say there was uproar with the Photographers association even talking about a mass boycott of publicity for the event. However a boycott would not hurt the right people, nor would it help the sport which is already in a very fragile position.
Whilst supporting the sentiments behind a boycott I could not fully support it as I had pressure on me to deliver images for Adelaide Insurance and Irish Racer Magazine. Adelaide not only sponsor the Kells Road races but they also advertise in Irish Racer and sponsor the Irish Racer Awards dinner.
Why one side of the Road is deemed safe and the other side declared as too dangerous I don’t think I will ever understand that thinking! In my opinion nowhere is safe and I’m personally prepared to photograph anywhere that I myself feel comfortable with. As it was I shot some images from the ‘safe‘ side of the Road.
In this image I used a wide angle Nikon lens to capture Australian racer Cameron Donald is in mid-flight on his Relentless Suzuki by TAS Racing Superbike.
Towards the end of practice the cruel side of the sport reared its ugly head again claiming the life of Stephen Larkin and predictably in this nanny state we live in today there is now yet another call for Road racing to be banned. Should we now also ban driving to work? or ban Horse riding?
On Race day Adelaide insurance had a few PR girls to assist with PR and out on the grid prior to each race. I again used a wide angle Nikon lens and the ever reliable Nikon SB800 flash gun to capture this image.
Race day was blighted by constant light rain, which then turned to heavy rain by mid-day and eventually conditions became too wet for racing to continue. Definitely not a Kells road race to remember, from what is normally an excellent race meeting.
In my Photograph below, TT race winner Adrian Archibald huddles under an umbrella with fellow racers Davy Morgan and Michael Dunlop.
Tags: Adelaide Insurance, Adrian Archibald, Cameron Donald, Davy Morgan, Irish Motorcycle racing, Irish Racer Magazine, Kells, Kells Road races, Michael Dunlop, Nikon, Nikon SB800, Photograph, Relentless Suzuki, Stephen Larkin, TAS
Posted by Cleggy on Jul 7, 2010 in
PR
Issue #96 (July 2010) of Irish Racer Magazine hit the Shop Shelves this morning. This is the TT review issue and it also features Joey Dunlop on the tenth anniversary of his death. Also inside are features on Aussie David Johnson, Klaus Klaffenbock, Sandra Stamova and Bryan Staring along with all the regular columns from the likes of Guy Martin, Kirk Jamison, Jonathan Rea, Eugene Laverty, John McGuinness and a straight-talking new column from Ireland’s last Grand Prix winner Jeremy McWilliams.
It has been another excellent issue for myself in that I have over twenty of my images published in the magazine this month, including the popular Eye Candy page.
Tags: Bryan Staring, David Johnson, Eugene Laverty, Guy Martin, Irish Racer Magazine, Jeremy McWilliams, Joey Dunlop, John McGuinness, Jonathan Rea, Kirk Jamison, Klaus Klaffenbock, Sandra Stamova
Posted by Cleggy on Jun 20, 2010 in
Location shoot,
PR
Yesterday evening I travelled down to Greyabbey and Kirkcubbin to shoot some PR photographs for Kirk Jamison. Kirk and I had a very successful shoot last year and Kirk was wanting more images this year to give to sponsors etc.
We unloaded his Race bike (a Honda Fireblade) from the Van he was driving and wheeled it down on to the rocky shore of Strangford Lough on the Portaferry road. By this time It was approximately 7.30pm and ideally we would have just sat and waited for at least another hour or more for the Sun to get lower in the Sky.
Waiting longer would have meant the ambient light levels would have been lower and we could have shot with lower powered flashes, but we didn’t choose that option instead I setup the shots in such a way that the Sun could be used as a rim light and then I used my 400WS Elinchrom portable studio light as fill (from Camera left).
Whilst shooting the above images we were joined by Paul Lindsay Editor of Irish Racer Magazine who then asked us to shoot an image of Kirk, back at his father’s garage in Kirkcubbin, working on the bike for Kirk’s monthly column in the new issue of Irish Racer which goes to the publishers in just over a weeks time.
Tags: Elinchrom, Fireblade, Greyabbey, Honda, Irish Racer Magazine, Kirk Jamison, Kirkcubbin, Portaferry, Strangford Lough
Posted by Cleggy on Jun 13, 2010 in
PR
Issue #95 (June 2010) of Irish Racer Magazine hit the Shop Shelves last weekend in time for the opening race of the Isle of Man TT festival. Hot off the press it includes features on Keith Amor, Tommy Hill a review of the recent North West 200, a preview of the TT etc.
I have Twelve of my images published in the magazine this month including the popular Eye Candy page.
Tags: Irish Racer Magazine, Isle of Man TT, Keith Amor, North West 200, Published, Tommy Hill, TT
Posted by Cleggy on May 28, 2010 in
PR
The latest issue of Irish Bike Newspaper is now in the Shops and I have an image of Glenn Irwin published in it to accompany his monthly column.
Glenn Irwin and his sponsor Neill Griffiths of Pro Net safety Services. 1/250th f11
The above published image is just one from a very successful (for both Glenn and myself) shoot that I shot and blogged about back in April. Some other images from the shoot were also published in a recent issue of Irish Racer Magazine and the coverage has helped Glenn to aquire new sponsorship and trade support.
In that blog post back in April I said I would return at a later date to show a few more images from the shoot.
1/250th f6.3
1/200th f6.3
Tags: Glenn Irwin, Irish Bike, Irish Racer Magazine, Neill Griffiths, Pro Net safety Services, Published
Posted by Cleggy on May 11, 2010 in
PR
In this blog post I mentioned how I received a Telephone call, whilst lying in Bed, from a top local racer, and how I quickly got myself organised to go out and shoot some images of him getting in some fitness training on his Mountain Bike.
That racer was Marshall Neill from Portadown and the images from that shoot and some other images from a follow-up shoot Two weeks later are printed in the latest issue of Irish Racer Magazine.
1/80th f5.6
Tags: Irish Racer Magazine, Marshall Neill, Mountain Bike, Portadown