Why use your name? When your website is built you put keywords on your site which, if some match your website title, has a positive effect on your rankings in google etc. Unless someone specifically keys into google "Paul Bennet Photography" then your domain name doesn't help at all.
1084photo may seem random, and you may have difficulty improving your google rankings with that too, but it is a hundred times more original than using your name. And that is what will stick in peoples mind.
www.Brian Glover-Smith.co.uk. Bit of a mouthful isnt it - and not really memorable either. No wonder he changed it to
www.thisisventure.co.uk.