Pictures of Perfection

We did some photos at Stockton Arc last night - a mix of live shots from the front row and some portraits of the acts outside the ready room. Here's one of comic Vince Atta:



This was lit from the right with a shoot through umbrella and triggered by pw. We like doing environmental portraits - showing people in their typical surroundings. Vince had just come off-stage after a successful set, and was happy to oblige with some no doubt well versed poses.

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It's been like a royal mail depot in here lately with quite a lot of new equipment arriving. We've now got a full set of studio background systems as well as paper rolls, muslin curtain backgrounds and some cables so that we can use our pocket wizards with our elinchrom lights. We're also getting some accessories like barn doors, gels, cookies, snoots and grids.

Personally I'm a big fan of business investments as, despite the credit crunch, people continue to book us because we represent value for money and high quality.

High quality doesnt just come from under the carpet, and whilst average equipment can be made to look 'alright', I'm a firm believer in having the best possible equipment you can afford. In the new year I will be upgrading to the new Canon 5DmkII and Jacqui will be upgrading from 20D to the full frame 5D, as well as buying a 24-70L F2.8

Although most of our work has come in the past from Corporate and Wedding photography we are looking to diversify and expand, with quite a lot of interest in portraits already so this is looking like a good move. Our business plan for the next 12 months covers portraits, maternity, weddings, corporate and events. We have a marketing strategy in place for each, website pages being written to cover each sector, google adwords campaigns ready to unpause...the lot!

We will be ordering some new sample albums over the next few weeks to diversify our range, and simplifying our packages. We will still offer our current album lineup during consultations (we see around 95% of bookings beforehand, and prefer to meet face to face for a consultation however due to distance this is not always possible) but I think our packages could do with being a bit simpler and easier to distinguish.

Don't worry though - we pride ourselves on not being the cheapest wedding photographers around, nor charging you £2500 for a graphistudio album - our draw is that we offer high quality wedding photography at affordable, realistic prices. We dont cut corners, we dont subcontract your wedding photos out to an employee and we dont offer you a load of gimmicky tat you don't want. We just give you wedding photos (digital, media and prints),albums & any other related products you want.

Quick one from K&T's wedding:



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Hello!

Been a while since we updated, but we've been busy with a variety of things! We'd like to say thank you for a really busy year. We've covered over 20 weddings in 2008, with 7 left to go in december (the quiet season!). Things are looking good for 2009 as we already have 30 bookings for the year and we sent out 6 booking forms at the start of this week for appointments we had last week, so business is definitely defying the credity crunch!

We've bought some new toys too - a Sekonic L358s Flashmeter with RT-32 radio module and some pocket wizards to trigger flash remotely. We're also investing in some white umbrellas for rainy weddings in december and no doubt next summer!

Really looking forward to the december weddings as I think its a great time to get married - if a little cold!

Here's a little pic of our boy pepper. This was lit with a 580EXII, a shoot-through umbrella and triggered remotely by pocket wizard



Gives you an idea of the quality of light and detail that we play with!
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For more information please see our main website: Pictures of Perfection or contact us:

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M: 07984 441322