Hello, my name is David Ovenden and I am a professional photographer providing a wide range of photographic services to individuals and businesses.
I specialise in theatre, fashion and commercial photography but I can turn my hand to most forms of photography and can help with all your photographic requirements.
I offer studio or location shoots, and with my portable studio I can create studio quality shots in your own home, office or at your function.
I can cover all areas of London and the South East, or further afield on request.
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Nearly 300 risk professionals from over 20 countries attended the IRM’s Professional Development Forum in Manchester in April 2012 for a mixture of enthralling keynote speakers, challenging seminars and valuable networking.
I shot the opening dinner in Manchester Town Hall where British Lions and Sale Sharks duo Mark Cueto and Andrew Sheridan presented rugby balls and posed for photos, the conference itself and the black tie dinner at the Manchester City Etihad stadium with comedian Ian Irvine.
Yesterday I interviewed veteran actor Joss Ackland with my friend Jeremy Chapman. Joss is currently appearing in The King’s Speech at Wyndham’s theatre and as his character (George V) dies within the first 30 minutes he has some time to kill until the curtain call.
We were able to have a wide ranging discussion about his long career on television, films and in the theatre although he said that after his wife died 12 years ago he had not set foot in a theatre on either side of the footlights.
We discussed his, and our, favourite performances. Mine was his Fallstaff in the opening production at the Barbican Theatre and Jeremy’s was Joss’s television portrayal of C S Lewis in Shadowlands. In the latter he starred with Claire Bloom and this led to a discussion on the many leading ladies he had worked with over the years including Ingrid Bergman.
A real gentleman with an old fashioned work ethic and great charm. The full interview will be written up by Jeremy.
Here is a picture of Joss with Jeremy.
This show is billed as a retro musical comedy review, written and compiled by Keith Myers. Set in 1969 in an Odeon which is under threat of becoming a bingo hall, the show is an hilarious mix of Hollywood inspired comedy sketches and song and dance routines from the classic movie musicals.
I shot the 2nd Company Productions’s production of Sondheim and Weidman’s Assassins at The Pleasance Theatre, Islington on Monday.
There were the usual problems with the lights, most of which were directly overhead, throwing faces into shadows, and exacerbated by footlights in some scenes which threw out the exposure and colour balance. I was able to react quite quickly to the changes in lighting state by shooting in Manual but I had to do quite a lot of post production work in Lightroom, and a new Photoshop plugin I am trying out from Topaz called DeNoise, which does what it says on the tin.
Joss Ackland
When Movies Were Movies
Assassins
A Song Cycle for Soho
Howard Goodall at the Rose and Crown Theatre
Love and War
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Love and War
These Things Happen
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