News Blog
Well this is an new section to the web site that aims to keep all you
all informed about what's going on inside Perceptive Photography. We
will try and keep it as up to date as possible with news of recent photographic
assignments, special offers, equipment purchases, software developments,
rants and rave's and anything else we think you might like to know.
All of our gold images are will be published in Imagemaker magazine
next month and go through to the annualPrint of the Year competition.
New wedding web site launched 15/03/2008
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 11/03/2008
Added a new wedding photography gallery today. All of the images where
taken in 2007. Visit the New
wedding photography Gallery
Wildlife images added to the gallery 10/03/2008
We have just added a new section to the gallery to show off some of
our wildlife
photography . Have a look at the gallery and see what you think?
Wildlife
Photography Gallery
7 Gold Awards in the SWPP Print Competition 08/03/2008
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 21/01/2008
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 20/01/2008
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.
South Africa Trip Photos 18/01/2008
The photographs from our 3 week trip to South Africa in December last year proved to be a photographic gold mine. We have put a small selection in our gallery under the title South Africa click on this link to be taken to the galley, South Africa Photographs. We were based near Pretoria, and the photographs document our various excursions. We drove through Lesotho, the mountain kingdom and down the Sani pass, swam in the indian ocean near Durban, went on safari in the Pilanesberg national park and Finished with a day in Reteif's Kloof. We added quite a few abstract photographs to our collection in South Africa but have put these in the abstract photography gallery
Wedding Photography Book Range Updated17/01/2008
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 15/01/2008
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 13/01/2008
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 12/01/2008
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.
