To become a successful Photographer you also have to become a successful marketeer. This workshop will show you how to increase your following and maintain a good working relationship with your photography clients.

In this session we cover:

• The importance of a consistent brand
• Meeting professional contacts
• Linked in
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Flickr
• Traditional marketing techniques
• Marketing techniques to fit your specific business
• Websites, Blogging and SEO​
• Finding your audience
• The importance of you
• Creating a marketing plan

Marketing is key to making your business work, it's hard to get established and sometimes you might feel a bit deflated, learning from your experiences and about your audience will help you grow, this process takes time and you must be consistent with your efforts. 

There are many ways in which you can get known nowadays and the internet has significantly helped people be discovered, but not always in a good way.. This workshop runs through the good and the bad practices online as well as some more traditional methods to help you increase your brand awareness.

​1-2-1 sessions are £95 for three hours with any additional hours at £20 each. You will receive worksheets to support your learning, 6 months email support for subjects we have learned on the session and an invitation to join our facebook training group.
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Sessions at your home may incur a fuel charge depending on your location.

If you have any questions please get in touch.  

​We will get back to you as soon as possible to discuss your requirements, thank you.

This workshop is designed to show parents how to use their camera settings and home environment to get professional looking photographs of their baby.

We cover the following topics:

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• Getting smiles and eye contact
• Posing 
• Safety
• Props and Backgrounds
• Working with Light
• Working with your Location
• Calming Techniques
• Working with colour and clothing
• Camera settings
• Blurring the background
• Fun ideas to photograph (finger painting, cake smash etc.)

This workshop is good fun, I come to you and we will assess your property before we shoot to determine good places to take photos, I encourage you to take notes but worksheets will be provided. The main thing to remember with these sessions is that baby is always in charge, so make sure to plan your sessions around nap and feeding time, although baby breaks are always expected in your session.

This session is £95 for a 1-2-1 plus any fuel charges outside of Honiton.

If you have any questions please get in touch. 

We will get back to you as soon as possible to discuss your requirements, thank you.

​This tuition session explores the techniques used to create pleasing compositions when posing groups of people and couples. This is useful for family portrait photographers, school photographers, event photographers and anyone photographing groups of people. You will also learn how to work with your environment for natural looking photographs.

What we cover on this session:

• Connecting with people before you shoot for relaxed portraits
• Posing couples for pleasing composition and emotional connection within your images
• Posing groups of people for pleasing composition in your images
• Creative posing techniques to communicate a narrative
• Communicating with people for natural portraits
• Working with your location
• Posing children with siblings

This session runs over 3 hours for a 1-2-1 and is £95.  This is a theory based classroom session but can be adapted to include a live shoot if you require, model hire is an additional cost of £50 per model unless you can convince friends to pose for you. (bribing with jaffa cakes works for me) 

If you have any questions please do get in touch.

We will get back to you as soon as possible to discuss your requirements, thank you.

Every so often I attend a networking or social event and meet a property developer, estate agent or residential lettings agent and they all say the same thing - they would like to learn how to take photographs of their properties to a professional standard. As a result of this I have put together a 2 part workshop that covers the key settings needed to get the best results when photographing interiors and exteriors.

For Part 1 This includes:

• What camera settings to use and why
• What accessories to use and why
• A checklist for preparing the property before shooting
• What lenses are suitable for property photography
• Getting the right angle for your shot
• Working with available light
• What to avoid when shooting

This session is designed to teach attendees how to get everything right when taking the image to allow the photographs to be usable straight out of the camera. However, for those who wish to invest in their photography to really make the most of their images, I have a follow on session (Part 2) which teaches how to use relatively simple editing software (Lightroom) to adjust images in many ways including the following:

• Distraction removal
• Lightening and darkening areas that we couldn't control in camera
• How to embed keywords into your images in order to rank higher for good SEO, this helps your website appear higher in google and other search engines.
• Sharpening. 
• Colour correction when there are multiple light sources.
• Lens distortion correction when using wide angle lenses
• Renaming and resizing images for use online and in print

This software is not free so you would be looking to make an investment in your photography which is at the time of writing this £8.57 per month. There are so many other elements you can adjust with this industry standard software, it can really help you refine your photographs. As part of the monthly subscription you also get a license to download and use photoshop which is excellent for designing marketing materials and further tweaking images.

Pricing

For one person and part 1 of the workshop - £95
For one person and both parts of the workshop - £180

Additional attendees are £20 per person.

The location of this workshop is agreed at the time of booking but I would suggest, if possible, we used one of your current properties with full permission of the owner or your own home so that we can make your session as realistic as possible. Depending on your location I may be able to source us a property to use but we will discuss this further when you book.

If you have any questions please do get in touch, fill in our enquiry form below if you would like to sign up for these workshops.
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Our photography headshot and networking event on the 12th January went well, it was interesting to hear about the different projects that people have happening and to find out more about each person's business. 

Here are a few of the images and links to attendees websites for those who either couldn't make it or need a gentle reminder of who was who again...

Robert and Sue Stocks from Stocks and Co - a Residential Lettings Company based in Exmouth.

We also met Gary and Julia Powell who are keen photographers and Julia works as a legal secretary.

Daniel Smith a local Electrician came along and we also met Hannah, a local Wedding Photographer.

Emma Redfern is a local Psychotherapist/Counsellor and we met Ben, a student Photographer.

For anyone interested in getting their own professional headshot taken for use on social media and marketing materials please email me at gemmiev@gemmiev.com for more information. 

Single sessions are £85 for the shoot and include your image sized for both print and web with embedded keywords to help you get found online when you use the image on your website and social media pages.
We will also look at your branding and colour schemes so your images match the brand on your website. 
Group sessions are an extra £15 per additional person on top of the initial £85.

Please get in contact if you have a specific look in mind.