I sat down with John-Michael on his Lighting Lounge podcast recently and chatted about everything from my style, how I got started in the industry and some of my thoughts on what can take an image from good to amazing in todays market. And yes, I am aware that he spelt colour wrong on the title!

I spoke about how I first started to play with colour out of a necessity to stay sane in a busy studio and how I was able to utilise that colour knowledge to elevate my lighting knowledge in general. I mention this in the episode, but 15 years ago I thought I was already pretty good at studio lighting, it wasn’t until I started to learn coloured lighting that I realised I was actually pretty bad!

Later in the episode we get a little more technical with the principles of light and how colour affects us in imagery. Plus, John is a huge analogue film fan, so we dig into my love of the analogue film side of photography too as we discuss everything from the terrifying experience of using the ridiculously expensive peel-apart film, through to my slightly lazy approach to using film as a means to a beautiful end. Plus, you get to hear me trying to explain a film camera to an 18 year old! Trust me, it’s harder than you think.

If you’d prefer to listen to just the audio, you can do so here on Podbean too… Sunny 16 presents: The Lighting Lounge 08 Jake Hicks Colour

I hope find some useful tidbit of info to take away from this conversation with John and thank you to him and Sunny 16 for having me on the show.