Advert Posted on Gumtree

I have just posted an advert on the Gumtree website offering my services as a wedding, portrait and events photographer with the link to my page being

http://www.gumtree.com/p/business-services/professional-wedding-portrait-and-events-photographer/94456597

Hopefully this will start me on my way to getting a bit more freelance work, wish me luck :)

Communication Stoppage...

It is now 11/01/12 and i have yet to receive a follow up email from my client saying whether or not he has managed to overcome the file issue or not. I did send a follow up email on the 8th, so fingers crossed the issues have been overcome.

The File Issue

30/12/11 The images were sent off on a cd to my client, because of the sizes we were working in i had to compress the image files into a zip folder before they would fit onto the cd, simple enough i thought.

5/01/12 I get an email from my client saying he cant open the zip folder... now this is where it gets complicated, and is still being resolved as we speak now, i had made sure that the folder opened on PC and on Mac which they did and so i am trying to figure out why they wont open on his computer... and that is where we are at the minute, i appreciate that it is the 9th of January as i am writing about it but my last correspondence with my client was yesterday, just exclaiming that it still isn't working...

After The break For Christmas

After the christmas break and a rather long editing process the images were finally ready to be sent off, all i needed was the final sizes of the (to be printed) images, so that i could resize the files accordingly.

28/12/11 I receive an email with the final measurements, the prints are to be blown up to 6ft on the longest side... quite large yes... in fact 72inches long, when the final images were created the were 986mb each, the largest files i have ever created.

Falconry Continuation 2.

(12/12/11) I receive and email from my client asking if i could perform some photoshop editing work on the images, I was asked if i could remove the backgrounds from the images but also in one of them if i could replace the glove that was seen with a different one.

Naturally I accepted the request but at an increased charge for labour time. The final images took me over a day to produce which brings my total time for the project up to 2 days of labour; 1 day for the shoot itself and now another day for the editing time.

Falconry Continuation

26/11/2011, The day I went to the centre was a very exciting day, I met Ben Long, the centres owner and operator. He began explaining what kind of images he wanted me to take, he was asking for motion shots, images of the birds flying etc.

It was a very dark day, from the outset i was on ISO 1600 to achieve a high enough shutter speed to capture the birds without any lens shake, at 500mm this becomes a slight issue. Towards the end of the day nearer 4pm i had moved up to ISO 6400 which would prove a problem come editing and final prints.

Freelance Work Update... (Very Late) (but will be correctly dated within the post)

My most recent Freelance work has come form a Falconry Experience Centre, I was asked by the owner to take pictures of his Birds of Prey in flight, to put on the side of his new traveling display van. (email received 04/11/2011)

Naturally very excited about the project I accepted the job. (email sent back 05/11/2011)