Phil was interviewed on live radio today about the new mobile phone course. A bit nerve-racking, to be honest, but all good fun. When it’s on the iPlayer we’ll put a link on so that you can have a listen.
The Daily Mail ran a news story on our mobile phone photography course, coming in January. Apart from getting our ages wrong, they seem to be pretty accurate!
BBC Midlands Today’s Ben Sidwell came to talk to us about our new Mobile Phone Photography Course. We had an entertaining afternoon being filmed with the very friendly students at Pershore High School, and apparently we’ll be on telly this very evening!
Here we are filming someone who is filming someone filming. Is this postmodern? We’re confused ourselves.
Lovely Ben Sidwell briefs the students.
Students, er, working.
If you get mobile phone photography right, it can look like this:
Taken by our very good friend Roger King on a Sony Ericsson K800i, early in the morning North of Worcester.
We’ve scheduled this course at Crystal Palace, Birmingham Central Library and Ashton Court, Bristol during January. The course runs from 11-4, and costs £40, but does not provide lunch. Please book on-line if you like the idea of a mobile phone photography course.
Photography courses are becoming more popular, and November was Photography Made Simple’s busiest ever month, with December so far on track to beat it. As a result we’d like to thank all those people who’ve come on courses or bought gift certificates over the last few weeks.
As always we promise to be make your camera 53% less mysterious, and help your pictures to be 47% more considered and less “snappy.” In 2010 we’ll use 48% less jargon and 37% less confusing diagrams. Our jokes will be 15% funnier, and we promise to listen to people at least 23% more so that we deliver exactly what they need to improve their pictures. We will wave our arms approximately 8% less, and point into the middle distance 11% more. Guaranteed.
Jokes aside, this is important stuff – recent customers have wanted to take decent pictures of their newborn babies, or their relatives on the other side of the world, or beautiful meaningful places – all things that mean a lot to them. These are the pictures you’d run into a burning house to rescue, and we want to help you to have more of them! (Not to make it harder to get out of a burning house, but you get the idea).
Sp many thanks for coming to courses and booking them for your friends and family. We know times are tight and it’s easy to economise on any kind of art. We will have more and better venues and more and better courses in 2010, and we’re really positive as we look forward to the new year of photography courses.
We like to run photography courses at stately homes, with enormous fountains and cascading waterfalls. It’s just the thing for getting the idea of shutter speeds. But you don’t need Capability Brown to get the idea.
But here’s one you can try at home: much the same effect can be obtained with a jug and a bowl of water. Here are some of the very talented sixth-formers at Hagley Catholic High School having a go.
We didn't make them do this, honest!
When we teach wedding photography, we stress that it is important to allow the wedding to unfold rather than interfere with what is happening. We recently received this testimonial for a wedding we photographed this Summer (in our our other guise as www.allyoursphotography.co.uk), and I think it shows that we pulled it off:
Abbey Hotel, Malvern
Dear Phil & Rach,
Wow, we received the prints to our house and they are just awesome! You guys should be so proud! It is gonna take us ages to try and pick between them for our photobook!
You’ve done an amazing job and we cannot thank you enough. All the effort you put in didn’t go unnoticed by anyone – everyone has commented on how professional you were, but at the same time, how easy going, and that you didn’t take over like many photographers have in the past.
Thanks again for our evening slide show also, it was an amazing touch and all our evening guests we’re so impressed! Every single photo will be cherished forever.
Many thanks again,
Best wishes,
Emma and Richard
Family resemblance
Although wedding photography is harder than it looks, stressful and a very long day of being creative under pressure, when you get emails like this it makes it worthwhile! We are very serious about our photography, but there is more important stuff going on at a wedding!