Studio diary of Fareham, Hampshire based photographer - Mike French
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Currently all of our wedding packages include a pre-wedding shoot. This shoot is also available to couples who are getting married abroad, and also those who have selected another photographer (or not chosen yet) and who would like some photographs to celebrate their engagement as a separate portrait session. Today whilst out we delivered the pre-wedding shoot framed print for Rosie and Scott who are getting married on New Years Eve and a photograph of the finished product can be seen below.
Wishing all of our blog vistors a very Happy Christmas, and a wonderful 2010.
We had a collection this afternoon at the studio of one of the lovely wedding albums which arrived a few days ago.
Kirsty and Marco’s wedding was at St Matthews in Otterbourne and then onto The Potters Heron in Ampfield, Hampshire back in July. It was a lovely wedding, and the album is full of images with happy guests and both the bride and groom smiling in almost every photograph, and one of my favourite images of the year from the first dance.
Coming soon…. images from the PHT 2009 winter ball held at the Portsmouth Guildhall.
It is getting close to Christmas and lots of our clients are buying framed products from both studio portraits and also our location portrait sessions. Making excellent presents for family members, and also great as a present for themselves ! Today saw us deliver another two childrens portraits desk frames which I captured some images of before they were collected.
We just received another large box of finished wedding albums from our suppliers in Australia. These were sent on the final day before the manufacturer stopped accepting orders with a guarantee for delivery prior to Christmas and they are the last ones we expect before the new year.
HMS Warrior was the venue for yesterdays Hampshire wedding, and I was looking forward to photographing Debs and Ian’s wedding, and black tie party in the evening. It had been a while since I had worked on HMS Warrior and I was relishing the opportunity to get some lovely images in the Captain’s cabin for the ceremony, the ward room for dinner and Ian’s speech and then on the gun deck for dinner and dancing.
Earlier today we covered a business seminar event at the Regus offices in Whitely for AQ Networking for Business. Capturing images of the seminars and speakers, the exhibition area and some of the networking taking place. These images are planned to be used on the website and for promotional purposes for future events.
This afternoon was dedicated to shooting some contemporary family portraits in the run up to Christmas. All done in the fashionable high key style I covered not only the full family groups but some individuals portraits of the children as well. All of the families were from Hampshire with most being in the Hill Head, Stubbington and Locksheath areas.
Today I got to photograph a wonderful newborn baby girl of only four weeks in a contemporary studio setup.
One of my clients from earlier this year returned for another portrait session today. This time it was for a business portrait.
This morning I had another series of portrait sessions with local toddlers and children with our contemporary white background set.
Rhinefield House was the location for todays pre-wedding shoot with Rosie and Scott who are getting married there later in the year.
We visited a local pre-school to take their pre-christmas portraits for what must be the 4th year now. As is usual for this session we worked on a white backdrop giving clean images of the children, which works well for these mini-sessions and also for unpredictable toddlers !
Commercial photography shoot today at a leisure club in Hampshire. As well as the bar, restaurant and reception area I also shot the squash and tennis courts, weights room, gym, fitness/dance studio, steam room, and the snooker room.
