Flowflex Follow Up...

On Saturday I will be having a follow up meeting with my neighbour. Managed to have a quick chat with him this morning before he went to work. From what he was saying its all looking very positive!

So watch this space...

Churnet Valley Railways resident Photgraphers

After looking through the website I have noticed that most of the photography has been done by Nigel Shaw and Dave Gibson.

I found a website for Dave Gibson which you can see through this link: http://www.davegibsonphotography.co.uk/

I will email Dave to see if there is an opportunity for me to accompany him on a shoot. This could then be an opportunity for me to get some work from the railway.

As yet I have found nothing for Nigel Shaw.

follow up from churnet valley railway

After enquiring about work at the Churent Valley Railway I recieved this e-mail;

Hello Anne

Thank you for your enquiry. I am sorry but we have nothing at the moment but if anything crops up we will be in touch, good luck.

Kind Regards

Julie Brindley

Churnet Valley Railway

Administration

So while there's nothing at the moment, I feel it's a positive sign that they will be in touch at some future point.

churnet valley railway... a possible client?

After speaking with Vivienne Cowie, who is organizing the Arts Festival in the village, I received a phone call from her today. As I was unavailable to take the call she left a message with my mom. It seems that she had been speaking with another lady in the village who suggested that I get in touch with the Churnet Valley Railway to see if they would like any work doing for them as it's at this time of year they are planning their special events for Christmas.

So I am now waiting to hear back from the Churnet Valley Railway.

http://www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk/main/index.php

another new client?!

My next door neighbour works for a company called Flowflex in Buxton. They specialise in components for the plumbing and heating trade. http://www.flowflex.com/

I spoke with my neighbour today and he said they might be interested in me doing some product shots or something like that for them. I should know whether or not they would like me to do something for them later in the week.

new clients...

Over the last couple of days I've been asking around the local area to find myself some clients.

The first thought that I had was to ask the local church. Every year they have an Arts Festival, where local people can show off their work. I have asked the organisers if I could help them with advertising and promotion. They have accepted my offer so I shall be taking photos over the next few days and coming up with some mock-ups.

I have also spoken to the Events Organiser for Titanic Brewery and we will be setting up a meeting sometime in the next few weeks. He seemed really keen and had lots of ideas. So watch this space....

clients continued...

Earlier this year I did some work at the Eden Project. The images would be used on their website. This was an amazing experience. here was a series of briefs set out so we knew exactly was expected and everyone added a bit of their own creativity.

Everyone had a go at most of the briefs so there was a real variety  for them to choose from.

the images below are the one that im most proud of.

clients

The first experience that I had with working a client was around 2 years ago when a friend of the family asked me to photograph their wedding.

At first they were really keen to meet up and discuss what they wanted and to agree prices etc. But after 3 times where they failed to show up, I decided that I would do some research myself. On the big day I took a lot of digital photos and some black and white film photos (they weren't the easiest bunch to work with!!)

Again after the day and a few more let downs from them, I ended up making some disks with all of the images on so they could sit down in their own time and decide what they wanted in their album.

While this was going on I spent a lot of time developing the black and white images and printing them out to A3 size so they could be on their walls at home. When it came to handing these over, only the groom showed up and he really liked what he saw, which I found really positive.

Only this wasn't going to last...a few hours later i get a phone call from the wife, she wasn't happy and said they didn't want anything else from me!!! To me this was a real let down as I'd spent many hours working on this trying my best with zero input from their side. It felt like a waste of time!!

In all I had a really bad experience with this and I'm also still waiting to be payed (I'm not holding my breath!) this has taught me that there really should be a lot of communication between both parties and a clear brief so that it is known what to expect and what is expected.