You will have noticed that I have resisted putting a move date into any of the blogs so far. Well there is a good reason for that – legal paperwork. I always knew that the schedule would be tight in the run up to Christmas, but I hadn’t anticipated everybody going into Xmas mode so early.
We’ve been asking for quotes for £5K and £10K spends and folks can’t get back to us before Xmas (even 2 weeks before Xmas!).
We’ve been trying to get the legal side done, which in …
This whole vintage / retro / cross processed look is all the rage this year. Principally because of the Iphone app Hipstamatic. Which lets you take exactly these kinds of shots with your Iphone and share them online instantly.
I wanted to have a go at creating the same type of image, but at high resolution quality suitable for print. These shots are post-processed using a variety of retrofying and cross-processing techniques, then framed up in a sort polaroidy, plate film contact sheet way.
None of this is authentic of course, it’s …
1) Get In Close – it’s the faces your interested in, not the shoes. Fill the frame with the face or faces.
2) Keep it natural – don’t over-pose pictures – natural pictures are often the best ones. Keep your camera ready and take peoples pictures when they’ are not looking. This is especially true for children.
3) Get down with the kids: while your children are playing with the Christmas presents you want to be down on your knees or tummy photographing from their height.
4) If you are posing to …
Adrian was an attendee at one of our recent two day workshops we run in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society (RPS). After every workshop a really useful part of the process is to send in some completed images for a critique. These images are from Adrian. Not all images have to be brilliant, sometimes it is the ones that got away that the instruction is most useful for.
Firstly, for all the images I am a bit concerned about the colour cast on them all. Shooting using the flash white …
It’s always interesting how hard it is to be creative when faced with a blank canvas. It’s the same with writers and a blank page.
So, faced with a large blank floor space we’ve kind of had the same problems.
How many studios? What other spaces should we have? Make-up rooms, changing areas, video studios, audio studios. How big does the viewing room need to be? Just how much stuff needs storing?
Always spoil the customer
This advice was given to me years ago and think it’s vital, if it is a choice between …
