Some new banner images

New House has had a website since 2001 and this year we split it to make two sites. The one you are reading this on is our B2B trade site, while our retail site is on www.newhousetextiles.co.uk.

To make these changes we needed a lot of new images, often in unusual formats that we didn't have before. So last week I was taking new images for banners that had to be wide and thin, colourful, but not too much so the eye is distracted. 

Simple is usually best, so my props were just the products and an old French apple crate to rest them on. It was an overcast day that was perfect, as the light is diffuse so the images don't have hard shadows.

I use a Canon EOS 600D with a standard lens that always gives me good results.

One of the first images I took was of our nautical blind and light pulls that are designed to look like traditional fishing floats. Kerry cropped the image and added words, turning it into a banner for the site, so I went on to take a lot more.