Monthly Archives: February 2010

Wedding Photographer and Portrait Photographer workshop

As mentioned in an earlier post, I recently attended a 2 day workshop on Wedding Photography and Lifestyle & Fashion Photography. The workshop was run by industry heavyweights  Barrie Downie, Bev Downie and Gordon McGowan. As a photographer I am constantly looking for inspiration that I can use in my work and to help me...

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Photographers Assistant

People say never work with young children or animals. Well the former is an occupational hazard for a professional photographer and as it happens I’ve actually found mixing children AND animals can occasionally make my life a little easier. Its not uncommon for us to get some shy children coming into the studio. Patience is...

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Wedding Photographers Workshop

I’m very excited at the moment. This coming week I’m attending a 2 day workshop on wedding photography run by 2 of the UK’s best wedding photographers:- Barrie Downie and Gordon McGowan (website here). I mentioned in an earlier post that as a professional photographer I regularly invest in my own training in order to...

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Happy Valentines Day Darling.

Ann and I have been married now for nearly 16 years and we don’t tend to go overboard on the Valentines Day thing anymore. We agreed to not get cards or presents this year but I’m never sure if I should ignore the agreement and buy something anyway. This year I went with the agreeement...

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Pet Portraits

Most enquiries we receive here in the photography studio are for either a portrait photographer or a wedding photographer. Occasionally a request comes in for a commercial photographer and every so often a pet photographer is what the customer wants. We had a recent shoot with a customer who came close to wanting all of...

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