"This City" - Band & Music Photography
Here are a few images from one of my latest band location shoots. The band is called "This City". Band photography is always a challenge, trying to find an image that stands out as different while still portraying a sense of what the band and their music are like.
New wedding web site launched
We have just launched a website dedicated to weddings. Visit our brand new Wedding Photography site www.perceptive-photography.co.uk Launched on 15th of March 2008.
New wedding photography gallery
Added a new wedding photography gallery today. All of the images where taken in 2007. Visit the New wedding photography Gallery
7 Gold Awards in the SWPP Print Competition
We walked away with seven Gold awards at this months SWPP Print competition, this is almost unheard of, a record by all accounts. Finding space to hang all the certificates is going to be a real problem. As well as our Gold wining images we were awarded 8 Silver and 8 Bronze in different categories.
Here is list of the categories and our results.
* Wedding Traditional (S)(S)
* Wedding Contemporary (B)
* Bridal Portraiture (B)
* Portraiture Traditional (B)(G)
* Portraiture Contemporary (B)(S)
* Fine Art (S)
* Family Portraitures and Groups (G)
* Environmental Portraiture (G)
* Pets(G)(B)
* Glamour (B)
*Monochrome (S)
* Pictorial (B)
* Landscape (S)(S)
* Science and Nature (S)(G)
* Wildlife (B)
* Sport (G)(G)
All of the images that received a gold award will be published in next months Imagemaker magazine and go through to the annual judging for the best of the best.
David and Nancy's Wedding
David and Nancy got married on the 29th of December 2008 at Worth Church, the weather was surprisingly agreeable considering the time of year. We planned ahead to do the formal photographs back at the hotel (in the warm) so just a few quick shots outside the church and onto the reception. David arrived in a Ferrari, (had a put a picture of that in) then both him and Nancy traveled back to the hotel in the red beast. Might I add that the trip back included a detour to include the M23....... cant think why.
Google Search Added to Perceptive Photography
We have just added the google search facility to the site. This little search bar(at the bottom of the navigation bar to the left) will allow you to search through the content of Perceptive Photography by keyword. Just type in a key word and the search will tell you every page where that word is mentioned. You can of course use the search bar to search the entire web for wedding venues , wedding cakes, wedding dresses and even other photographers if you like (not that you ever would ?!?) just click the "Web" button.
Wedding Photography Book Range Updated
2007 saw the introduction of the Italian "Graphi Studio range" of wedding books to our existing "Creative reportage Range". Graphi studio offer higher quality printing, 4 different paper types, (including photographic paper) endless cover options, parent and guest book copies as well as cases and embossing. For a more detailed view of the Graphi studio range please visit their web site.
Abstract Photography for Sale
My Abstract photography work can now be bought online as canvases, prints and posters. The wonderful people at Red Bubble will even frame the prints if you like. Please click on one of the images below and leave me a comment or .....buy a print.
Photography Equipment Upgraded
2007 has proved to be a significant year for equipment investment and upgrading. Adding to our already extensive range we now have a Canon 1D mark III , the fastest and most advanced SLR canon manufacture. This camera has the fastest and most advanced focusing system of any camera, combined with higher resolution and lower noise. We have also added 3 L series (the best) canon lenses to our range. These are the F4 17-40mm EF L, the F 2.8 EF L 24-70mm, and the famous huge white zoom lens the F2.8 EF L 70-200mm. I'm sure to many of you all those numbers and letters mean absolutely nothing. They basically mean: That we are using the highest optical quality and fastest focusing lenses canon make. We can capture higher quality images, faster and in lower light without flash(Churches) than ever before.
Printing has also been upgraded with the purchase of the Espon Stylus Pro 4800 A2 Printer and the Colour vision "Print fix Pro Suite" (Print and monitor calibration hardware and software) Our software has not been left out of the upgrading and we now now using Photoshop CS3, Abobe Lightroom, Nik Colour effects Pro and Kubota works... to name a few. Lightroom has been the latest and most significant addition allowing for a much more efficient and productive workflow with more consistent and higher quality raw file handling.Professional Photographers Affiliation
We are now fully qualified members of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP, Qualification LSWPP) the Royal photographic Society (RPS qualification LRPS) and the British professional photographers association (BPPA Qualification LBPPA) These are all highly regarded within the photographic industry and give our work an official stamp of approval. Not that we really needed it, hopefully our images speak for themselves?
Web site Visits 11/01/2008
In 2007 we received 37,546 unique visits to our site. perceptive photography.com and further 24,243 to perceptivephotography.co.uk That's an average of 169 visits a day.
We are based in the heart of the Sussex country side (Heathfield, East Sussex) and cover Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Hayward's Heath, Hailsham, Horam, Burwash, Mayfield, Uckfield, Hove, Worthing, Lewes and Eastbourne. Our wedding and commercial photography services cover the UK, Europe and beyond.
