Neil Graham-Cameron & Sioned Eleri BA (Hons)
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Sioned
was born in 1963, in North Wales. Having always
enjoyed picture-taking, it was whilst doing a
degree in Welsh at Bangor University that she
started taking photography more
seriously.
This interest came and went throughout her twenties and thirties, and then she became newly inspired with the advent of digital photography. She uses Nikon cameras and lenses – her favourite camera is the D200 – and concentrates on close ups and unusual angles. Even with all the possibilities offered by digital manipulation, she tends to restrict herself to simple crops and exposure adjustments – the intent is to capture the shot in camera, rather than creating the picture afterwards on computer.
Neil was born in London just before the second world war when the family moved lock stock and barrel to the north of England to avoid the predicted air raids.
His work career spanned a number of creative jobs including departmental store display work in Cardiff, then London’s West End. He met an architect and did a couple of years’ informal training with him, after which he worked full time for a London trade exhibition firm organising the exhibition display work at The Albert Hall, Olympia and Earls Court. Then a while designing solo exhibition stands and two dimensional graphics. Having had a long interest in photography it was about that time that the bug got him and, with his natural instinct to appreciate form, colour and light, made him take the picture-taking seriously.
His association with the advertising industry meant more contact with professional photographers and a substantial amount of hands on art direction – all the time refining his creative perception and ability.
Neil still uses film cameras as he likes making judgements based on four very basic control elements – shutter speed, aperture, film type and the potential of the subject. He also enjoys the somewhat more substantial ‘feel’ of a film camera and its mechanism. He has stuck with the medium in this form and uses 35mm Nikon bodies and lenses.
When in a search for inspiration, Neil ‘browses’ common locations, town or country, and searches for close objects which have attracted him by their shape or colours. Optionally, seeing a more distant object from a new angle or visualising it cropped to emphasise a finely judged curve or shadow line.
Occasionally, he succumbs to what he describes as chocolate box images – pretty shots – nevertheless, with some soul!
This interest came and went throughout her twenties and thirties, and then she became newly inspired with the advent of digital photography. She uses Nikon cameras and lenses – her favourite camera is the D200 – and concentrates on close ups and unusual angles. Even with all the possibilities offered by digital manipulation, she tends to restrict herself to simple crops and exposure adjustments – the intent is to capture the shot in camera, rather than creating the picture afterwards on computer.
Neil was born in London just before the second world war when the family moved lock stock and barrel to the north of England to avoid the predicted air raids.
His work career spanned a number of creative jobs including departmental store display work in Cardiff, then London’s West End. He met an architect and did a couple of years’ informal training with him, after which he worked full time for a London trade exhibition firm organising the exhibition display work at The Albert Hall, Olympia and Earls Court. Then a while designing solo exhibition stands and two dimensional graphics. Having had a long interest in photography it was about that time that the bug got him and, with his natural instinct to appreciate form, colour and light, made him take the picture-taking seriously.
His association with the advertising industry meant more contact with professional photographers and a substantial amount of hands on art direction – all the time refining his creative perception and ability.
Neil still uses film cameras as he likes making judgements based on four very basic control elements – shutter speed, aperture, film type and the potential of the subject. He also enjoys the somewhat more substantial ‘feel’ of a film camera and its mechanism. He has stuck with the medium in this form and uses 35mm Nikon bodies and lenses.
When in a search for inspiration, Neil ‘browses’ common locations, town or country, and searches for close objects which have attracted him by their shape or colours. Optionally, seeing a more distant object from a new angle or visualising it cropped to emphasise a finely judged curve or shadow line.
Occasionally, he succumbs to what he describes as chocolate box images – pretty shots – nevertheless, with some soul!