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London Fashion Weekend

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Here’s some shots of the catwalk and London Fashion Weekend…

Tags: cloths, fashion, london, models, photos, rick bronks, stureyes, weekend

Read more | Comments (0) | February 27th, 2010

NEW STORE NOW OPEN

Posted by satureyes | Filed under personal, photos

It’s been a long time coming but I am please to announce that Satureyes now has an online store.

This will not only enable me to sell my personal work, but also offer clients the ability to have an online gallery with options for purchasing the images. ALL products come with FREE UK DELIVERY too!

I am able to offer the best quality printing onto different high quality papers, as well as onto canvas, perspex and wooden blocks.

The canvas, perspex and wooden block products are all incredibly high quality and the materials used are fantastic. Images look stunning and will last for hundreds of years.

I’m offering a coupon for £5 off your first order (of £10 or more) and this is for the whole of February.

Why not take a look HERE

For £5 off your first order please use coupon code FREEMONEY

Enjoy!

Tags: discount, online, open, photos, satureyes, store

Read more | Comments (0) | February 18th, 2010

The revolution will not be televised (but it will be photographed)

Posted by satureyes | Filed under personal, photos, tweets

This week has seen me move into the wonderful world of wedding photography.

The main issue for me not doing this years ago was that it’s an area of photography steeped in mystery – especially for the clients. There’s a whole bunch of wedding photographers out there that really should not be there.. and certainly not charging what they charge for what is quite average work. So I’ve set out to revolutionise this, and I really didn’t feel comfortable being labelled as ‘one of them’

However, over the last 12 months I’ve seen my portfolio grow substantially with work for magazines, interiors food, live events and travel, I believe that the wedding world is ready for my new ideas!

I actually thought that a new wave of young creative photographers would have emerged onto the wedding scene by now but it seems not. On a recent trip to a photo expo in Birmingham I wandered around and noticed a LOT of wedding snappers there they generally were older chaps with their wives, meandering from booth to booth drooling at kit they would like to buy but probably not be able to operate. It didnt seem like the industry has moved on in years.

It’s absurd how some photographers operate. Just because you live with someone you automatically have the ability to absorb a skill set. We’ve all seen them – these photogs who bring their wives along on a job who stand there snapping away – either its an amazing co-incidence that the couple are BOTH pro-photographers.. perhaps they met at a local photographic club.. or perhaps they didn’t. More like they are over-charging and not actually having the skills to do the job. Does the wife of a cardiac surgeon assist her husband in the operating theatre? Of course not, so why does the wife of a photographer become a professional by proxy?

Much of the wedding photo world still bases itself on the fact that people who are organising weddings have buckets of cash to spend and they are VERY anxious about their photos and choosing the right person for the job – and quite right they should. Some prices that are being banded about are insane. Much of this is based on the vulnerability of people at a time in their lives where they are about to embark on a massive adventure.

What also gets me is the ‘extras’ such as the additional prints.. It harks back to the days when getting prints made was a time consuming process that needed many days or weeks to finish, so charging a premium for prints and not releasing the negatives was another way for the photographer to make some cash and covering his time and costs of getting prints done. I think this model needs to change. Its out as out dated as the people taking the images.

YOU pay for the photographer and their time.. YOU have a right to those images.. they are YOURS.. its outrageous that some photogs keep them and then charge and charge again for the prints. Its unfair, and greedy but its almost universally accepted. Why? Well because people don’t challenge it.

Many of my clients are more than happy to get their prints done themselves or on a canvas or in a photo-book that they can order online. Of course I offer the usual trimmings.. albums, canvases and other items of memorabilia but I believe that the client can get it done cheaper and think it better value for money that they do. I want to concentrate on my work as a photographer, not as a money leech for vulnerable folk.

My rule is simple. I Charge a fair and competitive price for the work – and offer the finished images in all their glory on a disk for the client afterwards. I process every image, select and sort, putting care into each one.This is how it should be. My corporate work follows the same model and all my clients come back to me tim and time again.

So.. here’s the offer.. for £750 I will shoot the WHOLE wedding (none of this running away at the cake cutting) up and including a good stint of the dancing. I will then process every image and all the useable ones will be available in their highest quality on a disk for you to keep. No hidden charges.. just great photos!

Feel free to drop me a line for more information

click here to email me for more information

Tags: moans, photos, rant, rick bronks, satureyes, wedding photography

Read more | Comments (0) | December 7th, 2009

In the right hands, any camera can be good.

Posted by satureyes | Filed under personal, rants and moans, tweets

I’ve just been exchanging some ‘tweets’ and an interesting but age old debate seemed to re-emerge. ‘That must be a good camera, the photo is lovely.’

Something interesting came up today after a few sessions on Twitter. I posted some photos that I’d taken last night whilst walking home from a launch party. I’d had a few drinks (the event was sponsored by Beefeater Gin) so it would be rude not to have a sample, or two.

Anyway, I was walking home and pulled out my camera that I carry with me every day. Its not my weapon of choice but I keep it with me just in case there’s an opportunity that arises. I feel that I’d rather have some memory than none at all. Not every photo I take is (or will be) a work of art.

I posted the images on Twitter this morning via Twitpic, and within a few minutes I’d had some great feedback from a couple of my followers. One wanted to purchase the image for her office, and the other wants to print it in their magazine. The images can be seen HERE

Another follower (@incapete) also commented on how nice the image was, and especially because it was from a compact camera and not a DSLR. After a few Tweets between us we came to an agreed conclusion: That when people say ‘ooh thats a nice photo, you must have a good camera’ is more than likely nonsense.

In the right hands (and with some knowledge) anyone can take a good or great photo using most cameras.

When you think back a few years, most of us had 35mm compact cameras, some had 110 cameras (the casette type thing) and some (including me) had the Kodak disc system.. then we had APS etc etc.

I think that its a shame how most people now dont even take 10 mins to look at how their new cameras work . If they did, they would probably have much better results. Simple things.. learning how to compose a shot, not always using ‘Automatic’ using a higher ISO etc.

Funny thing was that with film people knew about film speed.. even if it was basic knowledge – the film boxes had icons to tell you what that film was suitable for… clouds, sunshine etc.

People sort of knew that outdoors they would need 100 ISO, indoors 400 or 800ISO and that was that.. limited knowledge but it was all useful and helped take a better photo.

Digital has pushed this out of the window.. we’re lazy, and flippant. Film cost money to buy and process so we when were very careful.. now we spend 10 quid on a memory card and we can store hundreds or thousands of photos for a 2 week holiday and not have to worry.. when you get home.. you put them on your computer and that’s it.

That’s a whole other story which I will pick up another time, but the original point was that a small amount of education and knowledge can really help you take a better photo.

The marketeers at Canon and Nikon will have you believe that buying an ‘entry level’ DSLR will mean you immediately have better photos. I am certain that it won’t. I am also certain that most people charge it up, turn it onto the green square and leave it like that. Essentially you have just got yourself an expensive point and shoot camera. In my opinion, you’ve wasted your money.

There’s a ton of resources on the web – free guides, workshops, forums and so on.. plus there’s your friends (everyone knows a photographer) ASK!

I have no problem offering advice, its a compliment when people ask me things.

The summer is pretty much upon us, all cameras will love the weather.. learn the basics and you will reap the rewards with some lovely photos.

I promise!

Tags: ideas, photos, sunshine, tips

Read more | Comments (0) | June 3rd, 2009

More East London Wanderings..photos on my way home

Posted by satureyes | Filed under personal, photos

Decided to take a casual stroll home to the station on Friday and see what I could snap.. Take a look (comments welcomed as usual!)

Tags: london, photos, shoreditch

Read more | Comments (0) | May 17th, 2009

Spring is in the air. Time for a day out…

Posted by satureyes | Filed under personal, photos

Popped over to Blenheim Palace today, the sun was out, so it was time to snap away.

Unfortunately there’s no photography allowed inside the house (probably so that they can make loads more money from guidebooks and renting the location for films)

Anyway.. took the DSLR out for the first day of British Summer TIme 2009, and this is what I captured.