Monthly Archives: September 2009

Been very busy over the last couple of weeks working on this Animal book. Last week involved photographing crocodiles, here in the UK, a private collector, who has more types of crcodiles than any zoo or collector. It was certainly challenging, photographing some of his crocs in the conservatory! Some of them, like the  Black Caiman were far too big and dangerous to work under controlled lighting, so we opted for a Cuban Crocodile. This was about 4 feet long and due to its very aggressive nature had its mouth taped shut. This does not cause any stress tho the animal,  towards the end of the photography session it was much calmer and  the tape was removed and I managed to obtain few pictures with its mouth open! Fantastic animal to photograph, beautiful coloration and amazing to see close up. Shaun the crocodile man really knew his stuff .

Lighting was limited by the size and height of the conservatory, basically a large softbox on a boom arm was above the animal, small strip light for fill on the right hand side and a large focussing spot from the left as the key light.