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Most photographers will have a great camera and loads of lenses for dazzling image quality, but the most important thing I bring with me is not technological, but biological. What you get when I cover your event is my eye behind the lens, my people skills and my years of experience. But don’t worry, I will still bring all the kit, just in case . . .
We’ve now entered the time of year when we would normally be getting together to celebrate and reward success, with end of year dinners, parties and those all important awards ceremonies to acknowledge the year’s significant achievements. Unfortunately, once again Covid has left us stuck with video calls and virtual work lives just when we were hoping that things would be getting back to normal. This year has shown many of us that it is possible to continue to achieve in the most trying of circumstances, and I hope that even though we are still having to do things differently, we will soon be able to return to spending time together and celebrating our accomplishments in the normal way. Believe me, I can’t wait to be there taking great pictures there as well.
Relaxed and professional portraiture is essential to your online presence. This now takes on a greater than normal significance now that so many of us are working from home. In these strange times I am still able to offer a completely Covid safe portrait service to anyone wanting to improve their online appearance.
By now I was hopeful that I’d be taking a few bookings for the Autumn and Winter, and be feeling confident that Covid-19 was sliding into the distance behind us. Unfortunately it now seems as though I’m going to be separated from my work and my clients for a while yet, perhaps until next spring, which is a rather dispiriting situation, but there’s really nothing that I can do about it now. Looks like I’ll have to keep blogging and working at home until we are all able to meet up and work again, whenever that turns out to be. In the meantime, stay safe, and stay well.
Here is the final, for the time being, before and after post. Gigs are one for my favourite photographic subjects. Timing is everything in getting a good shot, and often you need some careful processing to bring out the best in your shot. In this case all the lasers in the shot have made the overall image a little bit washed out. But with the right processing, everything ends up looking great.
The Red Arrows are always a great subject for photographs, but photographing aircraft against the sky always throws up numerous problems; either the sky is too bright or the planes too dark for the image to really grab the attention. Here I have processed each different element to ensure they all have the maximum impact.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, there can be quite a difference between the image captured on camera, and the final finished product. In this example I needed to improve the detail in my fire-eater, including some separate processing on the fire to make it stand out, as well as separating him from his background, which additionally had a prominent tent post that I had to carefully excise from the final image. Quite a lot of trouble, but the final image was worth it.
It’s easy to forget when you take delivery of completed images that there can be quite a difference between the image captured on camera, and the final finished product. Over the next few days I’ll be sharing a few examples of images in the their unaltered and processed states, to illustrate how plenty of creative decisions, and important changes, happen between when the image leaves my camera, and when it is ready for sharing.
For this image to work properly, different areas of the image had to be processed separately to ensure that each element worked to enhance the overall image. In this case, the snake, leaves background and log were all processed differently to make the final image as striking as possible.
