My Kit

Shooting from his home studio in Scotland, Walter’s bread and butter is capturing local food and drink produce, fine-art portraits, and running photography workshops

Take a sneaky peak inside the bag of a professional commercial photographer

Ihave fond memories of learning to use my father’s old Canon 35mm film camera as a kid, even when I wasn’t supposed to! Now I regularly use Canon digital cameras and lenses for my commercial work, which ranges from portraiture, to product photography of beers and other local produce.

Living in Scotland I’m surrounded by some brilliant micro-breweries and I’ve been lucky enough to land some of these as clients, and I’ve still been able to continue my product photography for them from home while in lockdown.

It’s my job to create tantalizing images of their refreshing cold beverages. I’m sure we have all seen a beer image shot professionally and been impressed with just how thirst-quenching it looks.

Shooting a subject that has so many reflective surfaces can seem a daunting task, but it’s made much easier by using a polarizing filter to reduce the glare. I also spray matte lacquer or vegetable glycerine onto a lukewarm bottle to make it look much cooler and refreshing than usual.

I regularly run workshops giving amateur photographers the opportunity to work with talented models and make-up artists. I’m looking to expand these to run over a weekend in the near future.

I always enjoy chatting with my clients prior to a shoot

– the passion they have for their brand and product can be so infectious that I’m driven to showcase all their hard work and create some mouth watering images for them to go home with.