Portraits — Steve Gerrard Photography

Emily, Stef & Family – A Family Portrait Session

21st April 2010 · 9 Comments

Some people reading this will already know Emily Quinton. She’s an award winning wedding photographer now based in London. We’ve been good friends for a couple of years now and I’m a big fan of her work. Her partner, Stef, is a highly successful entrepreneur and man of a million ideas.

We’ve been planning a joint family shoot for a while now and this past weekend our schedules finally aligned and we met up in London for a day of fun, sunshine, ice cream and making pictures.

Hopefully, Emily will allow me to post some of the photos she made of our family here soon, but, for now, here are a few of my faves that I took of Emily, Stef and their gorgeous kids, Imogen & Oren.
Jason John Whitehead – Portrait Shoot

16th April 2010 · No Comments

A few weeks ago I had an email from Canadian comedian, Jason John Whitehead, who was after some new and different promo images.

If you haven’t heard of him yet, check out his YouTube video. He’s funny! And also a super-nice guy.

And he has a Pearl Jam tattoo. Respect!
Rebecca, Chris & Neva – Family Portraits

17th February 2010 · 1 Comment

One thing I’d like to do more of this year is family portraits and children’s portraits.

A few weeks ago I was up in Bolton to meet Rebecca, Chris and their gorgeous little girl, Neva. Their portrait session was a gift from their friend Mark and we had fun capturing images of the whole family inside their home and then braving the cold to get some fun photos outside near where they live.

If you need a new umbrella, b the way, you should check out their umbrella company here >>> www.umbrellaworld.co.uk We bought this one!

Seriously, how cute is Neva??!!
A Rainy Day Family Session… to be continued..

24th January 2010 · No Comments

So… what do you do when, as you’re driving towards somebody’s home for a family shoot, the clouds move in, the sky darkens and the rain starts?!

You improvise.

I’ve photographed Nancy & Mark and their little boy before but now they have a new member of the family and wanted some new family portraits. We planned on doing these in Sutton Park but, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. We’re rescheduling that for another day.

We did manage to get a few good images from the session but it was obvious that we were limited thanks to the miserable weather and lack of natural light.

Hopefully, next time the weather will be a little more on our side…
Brett Harkness & Damien Lovegrove – Photography Courses

8th January 2010 · 4 Comments

Every now and then it’s good to seek inspiration from photographers we admire and go and get learned.

Recently I attended two one-day workshops with photographers Brett Harkness and Damien Lovegrove. Both were great and gave me some new ideas on creative ways to use flash on location.

Here are a few images I came back with…

Firstly, from Brett’s workshop.

and a few from the day with Damien (including the image at the top of this post)…

Big thanks to Brett, Kristie and Damien for their generous sharing of knowledge. Both workshops were great fun and totally inspiring.
Rebekah – Superstar DJ

10th October 2009 · 7 Comments

Rebekah is not only gorgeous, she’s also an amazing DJ who travels the world spinning tunes.

She’s also the loveliest person you could meet and, I’m glad to say, a good friend.

Recently she asked me to do a photo shoot, as she was in need of some new, and different, images for promotional purposes. I was more than happy to help. Here are my faves from our session together…

Check out Rebekah’s MySpace page HERE
The Players’ Lounge – My Latest Magazine Cover :)

12th September 2009 · No Comments

Anyone that knows me knows that I have pretty much zero interest in football. Some people think I must be interested in football just because of my name.

Not sure how that makes sense but anyway…

I’ve done three shoots now for a football mag called The Players’ Lounge. Two of those shoots have now resulted in front covers which is great. You may remember me travelling to Blackpool recently to shoot Charlie Adam. And here’s the resulting feature in the magazine, which also features my shoot with Coventry manager, Chris Coleman. A couple of my photos from that shoot are below…
Charlie Adam – Blackpool FC

12th August 2009 · 2 Comments

On Monday I was up in the English seaside town of Blackpool, once a major holiday destination in the UK, bt now a shabby, run down and somewhat grim place in the north west of England. I was there to photograph newly signed Blackpool FC midfielder Charlie Adam who has just moved to Blackpool from Rangers and is still house hunting in the area, so we met at his current abode, the Hilton Hotel. To make a day of it, Evelyne and the kids came along for the ride.

Charlie is a super nice guy and spent as much time chatting to the kids as he did having his photo taken.

We grabbed a couple of quick pictures in the hotel lounge and then headed outside to get some cool portraits using Blackpool as our backdrop…

After we left Charlie, the weather quickly started to brighten up and we headed onto the beach in the sunshine with the kids…

My favourite girl

And even a rare shot of me! Taken by Evelyne.
Alvin’s Graduation Shoot – Birmingham University

1st August 2009 · 4 Comments

A few weeks ago we had an enquiry from Alvin who was looking for somebody to take some photos of him and some friends and family when he graduated from the University of Birmingham. We had only done one graduation shoot before but I was keen to do this one particularly as Alvin mentioned he liked my style of photography. That means he knows I may do more than the traditional shots that all the other photographers were doing that day. We took a bunch of family portraits using the university’s amazing architecture but it wasn’t long before I was looking for different angles and backgrounds to mix things up a bit.

Here are a few images we came back with…

We had to really didn’t we…?

Thanks to Alvin and Wilken for being so easy to work with. Congratulations and good luck with your chosen careers.
My Family (again!)

11th July 2009 · 3 Comments

Yesterday was a day off for me and we decided to have a fairly lazy day with the kids as well as buying some plants for our new garden and a bar-b-q for Elliott’s 2nd birthday next weekend. We also took time to get some new photos of the kids, especially Isaac who is now starting to be much more aware and expressive. He’ll be 5 months old on Elliott’s birthday, the 17th.

People say Isaac looks more like me (although he has more hair!), Elliott looks more like Evelyne. What d’ya think…?