Picture perfect

John Hughes proves you don’t need a big budget and lots of space to photograph studio-quality product imagery at home

- John Hughes

I have been a passionate photographer since my school days and am particularly interested in playing with light. I used to borrow cameras and lenses from my teachers, and spent plenty of time in the darkroom. I continued my hobby after I left school and eventually bought a secondhand Nikon F in the late 1970s (my first Nikon).

I collected all sorts of cameras and have owned about six 35mm film Nikons, but my hobby curtailed after I suffered a serious accident, and sold or gave away all of my kit.