ANIMALS - WEDDINGS - SPORTS - EVENTS - PORTRAITS
FAMILY GROUPS - ANNIVERSARIES - SHOWS - BANDS & ARTISTS
PHOTOGRAPH PRINTING - My Print sizes are - 7 x 5 - 10 x 8 - A4 - 16 x 12.
BLACK & WNITE - Any picture, any size.
PHOTO MONTAGES - Best montages contain around 7 separate images but can easily be up to 50 depending on how big your area is.
CANVAS BONDING - Only certain images look good on canvas.
HUGE POSTER/PHOTOGRAPHS - Can be as long as the paper manufacturers make their rolls of paper.
FULL DESIGN SERVICE - Full description later.
Stud Cards - Equine & Dog
Email Images
Images on cd/DVD
High resolution tiff images on cd/dvd
Web site images.
PRINTING
These specialist printing services have provided me with numerous extras to my list and as an example I'm now able to offer.POSTERS
Massive poster/prints on various media types in sizes from 6" x 4" up to huge A0 size prints and larger if needed.Portraits keep memories alive but only the best pictures become portrait photographs. The best portraits are found taking a prize position on the wall and the optimum size before framing these day's seems to be 16" x 12" (A3) also this is one of the best sizes for a canvass picture - and what a brilliant present that makes.
Family portrait photography is about capturing the relationships of the family members on film or digital format. Warmth, love, and natural affection are the glue that binds a family together. Every family is unique - constantly changing, evolving, and growing. My job is to discover how best to portray it.
Just Mum & Dad
How about the Crinklies. (They know I don't mean it) Ah they love having a house full of their offspring especially at Christmas and what better time to have family portraits done.
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You're Pets too - I see the inside of many homes owned by animal lovers and the walls are covered with beautiful animal portraits, so dont think that portraits are just for people.
Wedding Portraits - Quite obvious really, most people have one of their wedding pictures turned into a decent portrait.
Children - Can be easy or - well you know what I mean but Childhood milestones can never be repeated. Fortunately, I can capture these milestones for you in uniquely professional photo portraits, preserving them forever as cherished family heirlooms. In months, they go from helpless newborns to active, curious youngsters, taking their first steps and getting into everything! After that it's just about anybodies game and complete pot luck if you can get them to even eat their breakfast never mind a decent image for the wall. Just like my animals, I strive for perfection and sooner or later I will succeed and have that perfect shot and the little darlings wont have to be chained to the settee either.
Every performing artist understands the need for a PORTFOLIO, containing the most up to date pictures of YOU your life - capabilities - fashion trends - hair styles - Anything that makes you stand out from the rest.
Agents need useable pictures not only to remember who you are but to see how you will fit into certain areas of work. So your pictures need to be THE BEST POSSIBLE PROFFESSIONALLY TAKEN SHOTS YOU CAN AFFORD preferably by me, believe me nothing else will do.
Don't have any pictures smaller than a 10 x 8,
Don't use the machine at the chemist,
Don't use your camera phone
Don't use old pictures
Don't get you friend next door to take the pictures
Be different from the others and STAND OUT from the crowd, this is the reason for your portfolio and without it you don't have a life to show off to anybody.
Agents want Black & whites - full face - head & shoulders - full length - in costume - naked sometimes - colour - with make up and without, you name it they want it but its all to show how versatile you are.
Actor/performer/dancer/singer/comedienne/ musician/child star and that's only half of it, if you are ever going for work where other people will be in COMPETITION then you will need a PORTFOLIO , I have one!
I can help you not only with the pictures but I know and understand what the various agents demand, so lets put your life together correctly from the start. Prices for portfolios can be as little as a few hundred pounds - a small price to pay if it helps get your dream job, the rest is up to you.
MONTAGE pictures are a basic mish mash of between 2 and 22 pictures all together on one background, there can be a theme to the picture or just a load of images stuck together to form a complete mess or a masterpiece of art and design. I like to think I'm creative and produce masterpieces but I have seen some really bad ones that take the form of diced carrots and here are a few samples that could give you some ideas.
Montage pictures can be very expensive especially if the client wants more than a few pictures in the jumble, when you get into dozens of shots like my sample the price is horrific and most people wouldn't pay.
COSTS - The reason montages can be expensive is down to the sheer amount of work and time it takes to produce the image - to produce one picture might take up to 20 minutes depending on what needs to be done but if you then have to edit 20 images then mount them seamlessly onto one master image, well you can easily see where the costs arise. The hardest part of any montage is mounting all the shots together so that everything fits perfectly and this can take many hours, so put that into real time money terms and the price for a 20 image montage is now
20 separate images @ £6.00 plus 3 hours work fitting the picture together @ £35.00 per hr.
20 x 6.00 = £120.00
3 x 35.00 = £105.00
TOTAL = £225.00
On top of that comes - Now what size does madam want? Which moulding of frame will you require?
Get the point? And that's without delivery. Everybody loves a montage picture but won't pay the true price or anywhere near because people only see the cost of the final product not what went into making it and most will complain bitterly if the charge for a 16 x 12 montage costs more than a standard single image of the same size. That's why well finished montage pictures don't sell but they still look terrific and totally unique and you will be the only person in the world to have one.If you are after a one off photograph made up of several other pictures then either send the images to me and I will make the design or select the images from my gallery, if you do send them in the files will have to be as high quality as possible and even then I cant guarantee the final product.
BLACK and WHITE images can look absolutely stunning; it can also turn a crap photo into something iconic if done correctly with the right amount of contrast and various shades of grey.
ANY picture - digital and film can now be changed to black & white through the skilled use of PHOTOSHOP and other image editing software but there really must be a reasonable range across the whole of the image if this is to be a great black & white image, then the correct media has to be used if the image is bound for hard copy.
I don't charge any more for turning a colour image to black and white as long as I took it in the first place and there's really not much more to say about this but NOT EVERY IMAGE WILL LOOK GOOD IN BLACK AND WHITE. I can't tell you which images will or won't be great with the colour stripped out, so let's wait and see.
Other ways of colour stripping are SEPIA - TWO TONE and a few others like black/white and one colour added like the ROSE IMAGE. Once the entire colour has been stripped out of an image you can selectively put back certain colours or parts of the image, but the work can be horrific depending on the image detail but the final picture can look fantastic especially if bold contrasting colours are retained in the image.
If you would like to have some black & white work done simply contact me anytime and we can discuss the feasibility of the image you have in mind. Have a look at the sample pictures which have only received the very basic colour stripping. If in doubt then we will give it a try after all what is there to lose?
Everybody loves some sort of sports, peoples lives are ruled by some sports take FOOTBALL for instance - the national game? The beautiful game? Whatever you want to call it people want to see it, they want to see pictures of their favourite personalities and images of the boxers glove as it smashes into the face of his opponent. I can do this!
I can do all sports within my capabilities in fact here are the type of sports I take regularly.
SHOWJUMPING
CROSS COUNTRY
MINI MOTO
HILL CLIMBS
JET SKING
POWERBOATING
POLO
FOOTBALL
CRICKET
The list goes on and on, but if you do want me to take some pictures of your favourite team/sport or event then give me a call because I just love it. If there are pictures that you really would like to see and buy then let me know and I will go out of my to get them.
Sport is for all and everyone loves some sort of sport.
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