{"id":1132,"date":"2013-08-24T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2013-08-20T21:38:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:38:29","slug":"recent-work-pukka-herbs-for-the-daily-telegraph-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/recent-work-pukka-herbs-for-the-daily-telegraph-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Work | Pukka Herbs for The Daily Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve wondered for a while now if tea is going to achieve the same status that coffee has enjoyed over the recent years. Or whether our national obsession with a cheap cup will hold it back. Coffee still has an element of exotic charm to it; tea still comes in a ‘builders’ variety. Tim and Sebastian, who setup Pukka Herbs<\/a>\u00a0a decade ago, have laid a solid foundation with their herbal tea<\/a>\u00a0range. I photographed the pair last month for a feature in association with HSBC for The Daily Telegraph’s magazine following their recent win in the South West heat of the HSBC Global Connections initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the lighting I wanted something that felt more like a lifestyle shoot, so nice and bright without any heavy lighting style. It was a beautiful sunny day so the lights were adding to this rather than battling it. There’s an Alien Bee head with a large octobox camera right to the front of Tim and Sebastian with single Elinchrom DX One head bouncing off a white wall behind them.\u00a0A second Alien Bee, with an umbrella softbox, is camera left behind them both. Lastly there’s another DX One head at the back in the kitchen with a large umbrella acting as fill for the rest of the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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