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Q. Can I see prices? or get a quote? |
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At the moment due to this current economic climate I am
individually tailoring prices for every customer, thereby ensuring that
I can give you the best price possible. Please
contact me with details
and I'll then be able to issue you a quote. |
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How do I book you for work? |
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Very simple! The first thing to do is
contact me and see if I am
available and if I cover your location. |
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Where would a shoot take place? |
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I can shoot in many different locations dependant upon
your requirements. I have the use of a number of Hertfordshire and London studios, or I also can
recommend or scout specific locations should you have specialist
requirements for backdrops and props. I am able to setup in any location as
I have an extensive portable studio lighting setup.
I can even setup in your own location, home, office or
where ever else you like. Shooting outdoors is of course also an option,
subject to the weather. As always I am very
flexible and if required can advise on a location that would give the best
results. If you are after locations I have a list of a number of handpicked
ones in and around Hertfordshire, that I know will give us beautiful
backdrops. |
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Q. Can you advise me how long a shoot would take? |
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Of course. Dependant upon what the shoot is I may be able to give
you a few different options and choices. i.e. a quicker and cheaper
option or a higher quality, but lengthier option.
Usually is it best, better quality and cheaper to
shoot everything right in the first place, but with some specific setups it
may be easier and cheaper to create elements of the photographs afterwards
in photoshop. As well as timings for the shoot I'll
be able to advise you of projected timescales for any required editing and a
total turn around time, |
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| Q. Can you retouch or airbrush images? |
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Absolutely. I can offer airbrushing or
image manipulation from simple
touch ups such as spot removal, removal of objects from the background to full on digital art.
I have created
images edited to a very fine degree for applications such as magazine
front covers and also for large scale posters and adverts. |
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| Q. Do you offer full on image manipulation and image editing? |
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Yes. There really is no limit asides from budget and time. I can
create beautiful, exciting and thought provoking images. |
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| Q. Do you run a colour calibrated system? |
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Totally. Digital images and prints are supplied fully colour
calibrated. I can work to a very high degree, including pantone matching
to ensure your products are exactly the colour they are supposed to be. |
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Q. What kinds of printing do you offer? |
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I offer numerous high quality choices. With photographic prints I
only supply proper chemical professional lab prints. But I also offer a
wide range of prints on canvas, acrylic, and art papers as well as many
specialist options. |
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What kinds of albums do you supply? |
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I supply a number of handpicked high quality
traditional albums, coffee table
(storybook) albums, flush mount albums, folio and card paged albums. In
addition to these I also supply a selection of
custom handmade albums, which
unlike many others truly are individually custom handmade to your
specification. |
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| Q. Do you supply canvas prints? |
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Yes. As with my other products I've tested and chosen to use
suppliers whom I know will supply both me and you a high quality
product, with quality printing on a quality canvas mounted on durable
frames.
On special request I can also supply unmounted canvas prints and
hardboard mounted prints.
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Can I have the images on CD / DVD / Disc? |
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You may. Images can be supplied full resolution and are always
supplied post processed, balanced and colour calibrated and supplied
with a licence for your usage.
On request I can provide images in non-standard formats and colour
spaces.
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| Q. Can your work be seen anywhere else? |
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My work can often be seen gracing various magazines, websites on adverts and
even sometimes on the TV! When I get time you can sometimes see my updates
on my twitter page. |
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Q. What kinds
of work do you undertake? |
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I am available for available for
Weddings,
Portraits,
Christenings, Portfolios,
Fashion, Family,
Music,
Events,
Interiors,
Travel,
Lifestyle and
Advertising. |
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Q. Can you
supply ideas? |
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Certainly. If you have a concept for that you'd like for
a shoot I can work through that with you and give you plenty of different
ideas, dependant upon how you want the final images to look. |
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| Q. What
kinds of additional services do you offer? |
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I offer most post and pre-press services as well as
extensive image editing. Layouts, logos, montages, cropping, websized images
and specific file formats and colour spaces are amongst a number of the many
skills I offer to compliment my photography skills.
I'm also able to brief you all angle of web design,
and can offer bespoke services if required. |
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| Q. What options
do I have for my wedding photography? |
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The choices for wedding photography is very extensive.
Unlike some photographers I don't force fixed packages onto couples, instead
I tailor everything to how you want your day to be.
With most couples I work on the basis of charging a
smaller initial fee for being there on the day, and you then choose and pay
for separately prints, albums, books, discs or whatever other options it is
that you require. Images are generally viewed on an
online gallery, but printed or printable contact sheets can also be supplied
as well. |
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| Q. What kinds of event photography and services do you
offer? |
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With event photography there are many choices. I can
shoot either as a roving or fixed point photographer, or I can setup a
portable studio, including backgrounds and lighting.
I cam also offer instant view and high quality on
printing using dye-sub printers. I can also theme or tailor setups to your
event.
Images are available on disc, as individual sales on
the night, or more cheaply as prepaid sales, or even as unlimited prints on
the night, often called a photobooth for a fixed price you can have as many
photos, including multiple prints as can be printed within the booked
timeframe. If required, event photography can also
be viewed and ordered from an online gallery afterwards. |
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| Q. What kinds of setups do you offer for advertising and
commercial work? |
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As with many of my other services the choices are
extensive, and I am totally able to tailor everything to your requirements.
I can shoot in the studio, on site, outside or other locations and
also can offer prop and set construction, and extensive image manipulation.
I can also shoot small products here at my studio
setup in Hertfordshire. |
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| Q. How accurately can you take multiple runs of product
photography? |
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Very accurately. Runs of even hundreds of
images can be taken so that every image is lined up perfectly and exactly
the same as all the others, with perfect angles and colours, giving a
perfect and professional uniform look that is so important in catalogues,
whether web based or print. |
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| Q. Are you insured? |
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Yes. I am fully insured, holding public liability and
professional indemnity. |
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| Q. Do you have backup equipment? |
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Absolutely. I have multiple backup equipment and backup equipment
for my backup equipment! |
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Q. Where have you been published? |
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I am regularly published in various magazines, as well
as my images appearing on the internet, and as advertising photography. |
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Q. What kind of clients have you worked for? |
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Allsorts, part of being a freelance photographer means that I
work with many different kinds of clients, individuals, professional
companies and government |
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| Q. Where else can I see your work? |
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My work can be seen gracing various magazines, newspapers
and on adverts in magazines, billboards and even on the sides of buses as
well as all over the internet! |
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Q. Where are you based? |
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I am based in Potten End, Hertfordshire, UK. This is a great
location, being in between Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead and in close
proximity to St Albans, Watford and Aylesbury. I'm also based very nice
and close to both the M25 and M1 and can easily travel to Hertfordshire,
Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, London, Oxfordshire
and up to Northamptonshire and Birmingham. |
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| Q. What kind of equipment do you have? |
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I run all top end professional equipment from the camera and lenses,
to my flash system and studio flashes, along with all the little things
I may need such as filters, gels and stands. I generally use high end
digital cameras, but can still use film on request. |
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| Q. Do you have a studio? |
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I don't personally, at least not for public use, but I do have the use of several studios and also
have a full portable studio setup, enabling me to setup wherever is meeded. |
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What style of photography do you feel you excel at best?
A: I'm generally involved in either portraiture of some kind, from
family sittings, weddings or professional models through to action shots.
I personally favour a slightly informal style, mixed with very traditional
straight poses. Capturing as much of a persons personality as I can.
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Q: Do you
offer more specialist kinds of printing?
A: Yes, I offer a wide range of services including printing
on such diverse materials as silk cloth and artists canvas, as well as
options to suit corporate customers. Please see my
services
page
for more details.
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Q: Do you print your own images?
A: No. From experience I know
that I cannot compete with the quality of professional printers. Therefore
I now only supply proper, traditional chemical lab prints. Other printing
such as those of the pages of my coffee table (storybook) albums are also
printed by a professional lab on a printer costing over a quarter million
pounds! I feel that this kind of quality is needed and expected from a
professional photographer. Please see my
services page
for more details.
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Where are you based?
I am based in Potten End, which is halfway between Berkhamsted and Hemel
Hempstead in Hertfordshire
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