Currently in the shops are some surprisingly good items of summer clothing by Aldi with packaging shot by me! I photographed these earlier in the year at my studio in Newcastle city centre for Bebe clothing, who create the clothing and packaging for Aldi women’s fashion. The colours were really pleasing and the model was fab! A great shoot indeed and who’d have thought the goodies in the central aisles could look this good?
This month has been fabulously busy and I have added three new brands to my portfolio. One of these is The Arts Council’s Artsmark as The Forge, an organisation that creates arts activities amongst the young in the North East commissioned my photography. This month I visited three schools and colleges in the local area to capture arts based school photography for the Artsmark awarded by the Arts Council.
The images will be used across the Artsmark and Forge Websites and feature Northumberland and County Durham located schools: Collingwood Media Arts College in Morpeth, Greenfield School in Newton Aycliffe and Ovingham Middle School in Prudhoe.
The classes I photographed were lively and the kids were clearly loving the arts activities particularly Ovingham where the the teacher Neil played Oxygen by Jean Michelle Jarre and had colours spots lighting the class. Very atmospheric! The most challenging shoot was the photography studio at Collingwood. Shooting in other photographer’s studio spaces and lighting set ups was interesting! Apparently the students afterwards used my photos as a learning tool. Let’s hope I got them right!
Well after a hugely busy period at the end of last year then a honeymoon at Christmas, I finally had the time to commission a website refresh in January. It has been a few months in the making and so I haven’t been able to post since December. But now I am proud to announce with this new post that at last it is complete! Just in time to celebrate my 5th birthday in biz this March. Hurrah!
I have lost the heavy black backdrops and refreshed with greys and whites to match the colour scheme of the studio and to create a lighter, brighter appearance.The homepage has a slider of panoramic shots across all three of my photography areas, Commercial, Portraits and Weddings (see lovely wedding groomsmen feet above). My web developer was recommended though friends and was absolutely fantastic so please get in touch if you like his work and need a recommendation.
There is a huge variety of new photography across Corporate shots including Interiors, Food & Drink, Industrial, Fashion, Products and Events and PR. Portraits boast a range of new Professional Profiles, Bump to Baby, Family Portraiture, Pets and Model Portfolio. Wedding galleries have been updated with new wedding days at High House Farm Brewery, Saltwell Towers, Woodhill Hall and Horton Grange. I have merged this new photography with some older photos that I still consider killer shots! I have a fantastic new Professional Headshots page in the portrait galleries combining the previous commercial portraiture of corporate staff with the social network portraits aimed at small businesses and those who want a web profile picture. I even provided my husband with some photos for his LinkedIn profile last month. Can you believe he has a photographer wife yet had no profile shot until then?
I hope you enjoy the new layout and galleries, do please get in touch if you have an enquiry or would like to drop by the studio and say hi! I shall look forward to hearing from you.
This December I am promoting my head-shot portraiture deal to small businesses and sole traders in Newcastle who would like to update their profile photo for social networking and company websites. It’s often a job we put to the bottom of the pile, particularly as VERY few of us enjoy having our picture taken!
If you bite the bullet and book in to my studio for a January 2016 appointment the first ten enquiries will be rewarded with a 50% discount on the Studio Profile package. Just please quote the code CLAVJAN and you will receive the package for just £50.
The Studio Profile package gives you a relaxed and enjoyable half hour studio session with the option of various backdrops at the studio. Or you can choose to be captured in your office or outdoors at a location relevant to your business if you prefer. Around one week later you then choose 10 images from around 30 finished and retouched portraits. These are then supplied as digital files ready to upload to social networking sites LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc or website team/about pages and high quality versions for printing too.
It might be helpful to see what my past clients wore, the variety of backdrops we used and various lighting styles for corporate and social media portraits so please visit this page on my website http://www.sarahdeanephotography.co.uk/corporate-studio-photographs/
Please call 07960 338357 or email me at sarah@sarahdeanephotography.co.uk and I can give you more information on the studio’s offer and discuss availability for January.
Jason Squires social media marketing expert came to me recently for profile photos in my photography studio in Newcastle city centre and around local nearby landmarks at the quayside. Being a social media expert he knew the importance of good quality portrait photos online and needed a broad range of profiles for his new website. His business advises other businesses on the strengths of social media and how to grow your client base and increase growth using social media effectively.
The brief was to create portrait imagery that allowed his clients to have a visual introduction to Jason on line in professional yet friendly and relaxed photography. The weather was dry and we worked our way around the quayside to various landmarks with spectacular backdrops across Dean St and across the bridges to the Baltic. Jason works nationally however this Newcastle city scape was a great one to use particularly as it was a stones throw from my portrait studio. We finished up with a few studio shots with plain backdrops of white, grey and black coloramas each offering a different atmosphere and offering flexible use for Jason across various print and web media designs. If you’d like to see the results of the pictures now within Jason’s site or want to know more about Jason’s work please visit this link; http://www.jasonsquiresonline.com/
If you would like a new online profile shot maybe for your company website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or other social media please see the flyer below for details of my current offer and give me call to discuss availability. I can help you loosen up (as very few people like having their portrait taken) and make the experience an enjoyable one! Please don’t be shy and pick up that phone to call me on 07960 338357
