The Best Family Photo Shoot

Vanessa and the Best family met up at Hanbury Hall for a portrait session with Claire, Adam, Oli & Meg  and what a great time it was! The weather was perfect and the children really seemed to enjoy themselves.

Oli & Meg played and had a relaxed fun time while Vanessa worked away without interrupting them or putting them into awkward poses. This is the style and approach that Foreverly Photography has always used for our family photo shoots.

We can and often still do the traditional posed family photo sessions. The feedback we received from our clients with younger children was that they preferred our relaxed approach and the comfortable environment we create for the whole family. The photographs of the children are more natural and capture the personality of the child as well as the dimples and grins!

Vanessa and I are both parents with children ranging for 3 months to 16 we have a lot of experience with children both behind and in front of the camera. We do whatever it takes to make everyone feel comfortable!  

We have scheduled two days of “Family Mini Shoots” as those dates are just about full we are considering adding a third day. If your interested stop by our Foreverly Photography Facebook Page for more details and client comments!

I hope you enjoy meeting the Best family as much as we did!

Family Portraits are fun and rewarding for us and our clients!

We value the trust placed in us to capture your cherished memories

and we promise to treat your family like we treat our family!

Please call or email for more information regarding our Family Portrait Sessions or our

Family Mini Shoots!

07923 408556

Current Promotions Include Discounts Up To 20%

(expiring 30.06.2011)

Albums Are Keepsakes!!

Wedding Albums are so much more than a picture album. They are keepsakes, a treasured reminder of a significant moment in time. A record of when your life was irrevocably changed forever! They are more than “Albums” more than just a collection of snapshots.

A Wedding Album is a keepsake from your Wedding Day! Something unlike anything else from your special day as it lives on. The cake is gone, the flowers are gone and someone else is riding in that limo!  A physical thing you can touch, hold and share.

Vanessa and I design and craft each album and they are as unique as the couple we create it for.  It is with a great deal of pride and responsibility we shoot every wedding. We are documenting our couples story, an end to being single and the beginning of a new family. The keepsake is the story telling with pictures rather than words of that all important day.  We take that role very seriously and no matter whether our couple is ordering an album or not our approach doesn’t change nor does the level of coverage our couples get. 

There are other times in our lives that are just as important. Births, Renewal of vows or commitments, Christening and Blessing ceremonies or any moment really, as everyday is special as it only ever happens once.

We feel those special times deserve keepsakes as well.  We also know that during this economic climate that every penny is important so we are prepared to do more than just talk about it!

For a limited time we are offering a 6x6 album with 20 sides for £160 or a 6x8 album with 20 sides for £185! If you are already a Foreverly Client we can use the images we have already captured for you if you are a new client we will offer the photo shoot at substantial savings!! 

They are top quality albums produced by a quality manufacturer,  made of quality materials and we wouldn’t recommend anything that didn’t meet our standards! 

There are of course other sizes as well as types of paper and covers available for you to choose from.

Having the high resolution disc is great but for a few £’s more you can have a keepsake of that day in your life that only happens once!

The following photographs are of the 6x6 album and a larger size album and are the albums on offer!

Please Call or email any questions you may have!

Blessing & Naming for Reuben!

Vanessa & I had the pleasure of documenting the blessing of Reuben and were privileged to meet his family and friends. It was a really great ceremony conducted by Lindsay Jarrett a Celebrant/Interspiritual Minister.

There were guests there from as far away as the United States! It was easy to see the family unity and the kindness they all showed one to another. My favorite part of the ceremony was when Rueben’s father Rhodes began blowing bubbles to natural response entertain him and keep him from becoming to restless! It was great fun and we really enjoyed ourselves!

Email for Lindsay Jarrett her contact number is 07597 929200.  Vanessa and I highly recommend her as she is sincere, kind, well spoken and very nice! 

Please Enjoy!

If your planning  a naming or blessing ceremony please give us a call!

Come meet the Foreverly team!

 

Sunday June 12th we will be at Jinney Ring for a wedding fayre so please come out and meet us! Please pass this on to anyone that you know that could benefit from a discount voucher for wedding photography :)

We will also have vouchers for portrait shoots as well as our range of photo books and our wedding albums! 

http://www.jinneyring.co.uk

It is a lovely venue and has lots of little shops and a fabulous candy sop on site!

We will also be available for some mini on site portrait sessions so please stop by and say hello!!

Retouching Portraits Continued

Yesterday I posted the Portrait retouching that we do and have available for our clients. I said at the end of that post that I would post examples of more advanced editing. So as I have some time today I thought I would go ahead and get that post up.

I enjoy working in Photoshop almost as much as I like taking the photograph! One thing I have learned though is if your not starting with a great base image your not really going to be able to go very far and you won’t be able to get away with very much if your trying to hide something.

There are two types of retouching (in my opinion),  one to repair and one to enhance.

The retouching that is done to repair is done to try and make a photograph that has issues appear as if it doesn’t. Getting the exposure as close to dead on is one of the most important things in making for a great image. Sounds simple enough but in a mixed light setting if you are using flash, a slow shutter speed might let in too much ambient light. Even though the metering appears to be correct it isn’t.

The enhancing retouch is one that allows us to bring out the depth of an image, lets us create and build on the image that we see in our minds but the camera can’t possibly capture. It is art. There are some extremely creative artist out there that use a camera to express themselves rather than a paint brush, a pencil or charcoal or clay.

Here are just a few images I have worked on.

I hope you enjoy them!

A lot of photographers hold that an image is either meant to be in Color or in B&W not both. The way I like to get to the B&W is to work the color image until I am happy with it and then make the decision on converting it to B&W or leaving it in color. I feel like I get the most out of the image that way.

As always Thank You for Checking In

&

Have a great weekend!

Retouching Portraits

Retouching Photographs these days isn’t that much different from the days of film. We took a roll of film dropped it in our cameras, be it the 110 instamatic or the 35 mm SLR and once it was shot, it was sent off to the lab to be processed. Some photographers processed their own photographs in their own dark rooms but certainly not a majority of photographers.

Today photographs are processed by the photographer more than labs. Just about every point and shoot camera comes with a software application to process the images. There are plenty of freeware applications to edit your images with as well.

The photographer has at his or her disposal a myriad of tools to help correct color cast, brightness and contrast issues and some times even focus. Each application has it’s own strengths and weaknesses and there isn’t just one tool in the box these days. Most professional photographers have a few programs that they use for different parts of their work flow.

One thing has not changed however… It takes time, knowledge and skill and the right tools.

At Foreverly Photography I typically edit all the images. I download and process just about every image file that Foreverly Photography takes. We have at our disposal some very nice tools and I have spent a great deal of time learning how to process our images to give our clients the very best image possible.

We do everything from Black & White conversions to  Cross Processing here. Vanessa has some great ideas when it comes to images and how she wants them to look. I have ideas as well but when it comes to the higher end processing we are guided by the image itself.

The basic corrections applied to all our images are color correction, minor blemish removal and conversion to a format our clients can print. This is all a part of our basic work flow. On our portrait shoots we try to include edits that are above and beyond the basics. Not just Black & White but some processed in a more dramatic fashion.

We offer retouching on all of our work. We offer retouching on digital images as well as film images.

Additionally we offer digital processing from start to finish for the amateur as well as professional photographers and everyone in between! Anything from one image to a whole disc.

So just to give you the idea of what our advanced retouching involves I am going to share a few examples of portrait work only. The high end stuff we do for our brides and portrait clients will be shared with you at a later date.

If you are interested in having us process your photographs please don’t hesitate to give us a call!

We can manage anything from a cherished photograph that you would like restored or spruced up to a disc full of images or a special project!