Category archives: Client Albums
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- What could an individual staff portrait be saying about your team?
It’s staff portrait time again. That means you have a choice: do roughly what you did last time, which probably means the same, standard headshots of roughly the same pool of people who look roughly the same (just a bit older)[...]
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- Before I take your portrait, please tell me if there’s something you’d rather I didn’t focus on.
Today, I carried out a commercial photo shoot in Lancashire that involved taking the portraits of the senior team. Within about 5 seconds of the first subject walking in, I heard the classic, “Good lu[...]
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- Why the obvious choice isn’t always the best choice.
The right location for your commercial photography in Lancashire? Surely, it’ll be the office or workshop, won’t it?
Well, possibly. If your commercial photography involves capturing manufacturing processes then yes, it’s a natural decision [...]
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- You’ve booked your corporate portrait with your commercial photographer. If you’re based in Preston or Lancashire, hopefully you’ve booked that portrait shoot with me. Then, as the day draws near, you start to wonder whether you should prep anything before I turn up. Well…
A portrait shoot – at i[...]
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- You don’t need to be a Lancashire commercial photographer to know that there’s a certain type of corporate photography that crops up again and again.
It’s the sort of imagery you’ll typically find on the websites of businesses whose output is intangible. You can’t shoot the process of doing a tax[...]
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- Of course, it’s a matter of budget and strategy, but consider including any and all of the following in your annual report photography.
Portraits
The natural starting point for any brief. Naturally you’ll want the key figures in the business covered – especially if they’re writing a section of t[...]
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- You’re putting a brief together for the photographer who’s going to be shooting the images for your annual report. But with an infinite number of possibilities, what should you ask for?
I’d answer that question in two stages:
1. What's the real purpose of your annual report photography?
O[...]
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- The annual report is the perfect time (and excuse) to get all your ducks in a row, image-wise.
Late winter and early spring is when I start getting bookings to shoot images for annual reports for clients in Lancashire and across the North West. Now, I seem to have two ‘camps’ of clients when [...]
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- If you’re just starting out, don’t underestimate the power of professional photography to help you launch.
Starting your own business isn’t easy. Purse strings are (usually) tight and you have to spend every penny wisely. Yet I’d suggest few pennies get spent more wisely than when a start-up [...]
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- You want professional photography for your business or design project, but there’s just one problem…
It’s strange how things go in cycles. This week, within the space of a couple of days, I found myself talking to two business owners who were thinking about hiring a professional photographer, but[...]
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- One of the big thrills of what I do is seeing my commercial photography illustrating print materials.
I know digital is king, but there’s a special sort of satisfaction I get from seeing my work used in print. That’s because the combination of image, paper and print can work magic you just ca[...]
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- With Christmas fast approaching, here are some ideas for capturing the very best of your event by making more of the corporate event photography.
The red carpet arrival
A grand event needs an entrance to match, and let’s face it, all the effort in getting ready has been leading to this. Your[...]
