Hi Everyone
As an event photographer in Scotland, I am well into the outdoor conference and event photography season with it being August. This year, as well as conference photography in Edinburgh, wedding photography in Scotland and some general event photography in Glasgow, I will also be returning to do some Segway photography in Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian. So I thought this would be a good time to provide you with some top tips for event photographers in Scotland.
1. Research your event thoroughly, whether it is for a sports event or classic cars, make sure you have a good knowledge of the subject.
2. Get the timings right, don’t be late and make sure you know the key times involved.
3. Prepare all your gear in advance the night before and only take what you need with lots of batteries. I have conducted a wedding photography assignment with only one lens befire.
4. Communicate with the client well in advance and nearer the time and establish a good relationship with them.
5. Know your brief to the exact degree, then use your creative photography skills to give the client something extra. I have often supplied couples for weddings in Scotland, some infrared photography photos and they loved them.
6. Be confident and knowledgeable.
7. Respect the guests/participants and take great care during the photoshoot, in addition to adopting a friendly attitude at all time.
8. Dress appropriately and smart but casual. For wedding photography in Scotland, you dont need to try and upstage the wedding couple.
9. Keep in mind what the final photos will look like after editing. Pre-visualisation is a very important aspect of photography.
10. Finally have fun and enjoy. Professional photographers in Scotland have the most enjoyable job in the world.
Hope that is helpful. Until next time.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com
Hi Everyone
Today I am going to look at the need for photographers to keep pursuing projects, especially ones that divert from their specialist photography genre. As most of you know, I am a freelance event, corporate and conference photographer working in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Scotland. Now recently I went on a quick family holiday to Karlsruhe Germany and I used this vacation period as a time when i could pursue another one of my photography projects. In this case I wanted to continue with infrared photography and also to combine it with photographing art installations and architecture in Karlsruhe. I also wanted to extend the definition of art to include graffiti and other every day things. So what exactly makes for a good photography project. Here are a few tips to get you started:
1. Have a general theme and work round it ie in my case it is infrared photography and art and then I have expanded it.
2. Keep in mind if you are going to be producing a final colour or black and white image or a colour photo. This is particularly relevant for infrared photography in Scotland, as certain subjects are more suitable in colour and others work better in infrared, a lot of foliage and strong sunshine can work well for colour infrared, while metallic subjects and photos with a lot of detail sometimes look better in black and white.
3. Stick to your brief but this is digital photography, you can always shoot something else and go back to your project, however, sometimes it pays to concentrate on the project.
4. Think about telling a story, your photos should lead the viewer into your subject matter.
5. Enjoy, but event is you are a conference photographer from Edinburgh on holiday, take it seriously as, you never know, these photos may be your next exhibition. One of my most successful photos in infrared of a highland cow in the snow was taken during a hill walk, so always carry your camera and be alert.
Anyway hope this helps.
Until next time, have a good week. I will be off on an event photography in Edinburgh commission this week, then as a conference photographer in Glasgow the following week.
Kind Regards
Colin
Hi Everyone
I thought I would spend today talking about how landscape and infrared photography in Scotland can be used for conference and event photography in Edinburgh, or throughout the country. As you all know, I am a specialist conference photographer in Edinburgh, and throughout Scotland. I am also a general event photographer in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Scotland, however much of my time in the summer especially is spent on infrared photography in Scotland and also as a landscape photographer throughout Scotland. So how can I utilise my skills in landscape and infrared photography for the benefit of my my conference and event photography in Scotland, well there are many ways and below is a list of examples:
1. Wedding photography is ideal for using infrared if the weather is right, the cars, the white dress, foliage etc, just make sure you don't make the bride look too weird, it will also likely be better for black and white infrared, unless you have a really whacky couple who like colour infrared photography. Of course a good landscape photographer can take advantage of the background scene to benefit the wedding photographer in Scotland.
2. Architecture photographers can benefit greatly from a landscape photographers skills, but infrared can really help the architecture photographer with striking images depicting clouds and dramatic skies, not to mention high dynamic range.
3. Some sports can even work well in infrared, I have taken football and rugby using a converted infrared camera, again black and white is usually the preferred option. Anything involving metal such as super cars and racing events will look great in infrared.
4. Theatre photography if outdoors can benefit from infrared as it is an art form, which can create over the top images suitable for drama and other outdoor activities. I have often used infrared to depict outdoor Edinburgh Fringe Festival performers. Rock music performers and bands also benefit from the infrared treatment.
5. Urban infrared photography gives you something totally different for your city photos, see attached photograph taken in Glasgow.
6. Nature photography in infrared is really interesting, you can really play with colours and contrast. I took some interesting images of bees during the pandemic, which can be viewed in the infrared section of my website.
Anyway, more to follow soon. Hope this helps all you landscape and infrared photographers out there.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.edinburghphotographer.com
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
Hi Everyone
For my blog today I will be looking at how event and conference photographers in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Scotland can make use of skills from other genres and also generally how all the different types of photography link together. Now I am a specialist conference photographer in Glasgow and Edinburgh and this is my main source of income. However, I do other types of photography. I am also an active wedding photographer throughout Scotland and the North of England, I photograph all types of events in Glasgow and Edinburgh right up to Aberdeen. I photograph football, rugby, work as a newspaper photographer throughout Scotland and also do some fine art, landscape and infrared photography in Scotland. So how can all these genres help each other. Lets take a look at wedding photography for instance. A wedding photographer needs to be good at fashion photography nowadays, also the all round experience of a newspaper photographer will also be useful in weddings and conferences, as you taking formal shots, reacting to things happening, working to deadlines etc. As a sports photographer, I have to get the right position and know when the important thing will happen and this helps me at conferences, with set times and reacting quickly to famous delegates and speakers arriving a the venue. An architecture photographer will understand how to photograph buildings and interiors, which will obviously help at conferences and weddings and the portrait photographer can use their skills to great effect photographing conferences in Glasgow. However of all the genres and experience that enabled me to be an effective conference and event photographer in Edinburgh, the main one that really helped was my 10 years as a newspaper photographer, which gave me practice in a wide range of photographic disciplines and enabled me to work quickly under pressure within tight deadlines.
So, its of to photograph a conference in Edinburgh next week, then I will be taking some photos at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and some infrared photography in Glasgow and in the Highlands in Scotland, before returning to photograph a wedding in Glasgow after that.
So, until next time, keep snapping away.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com
Hi Everyone
Today we are going to look a the effect of the four seasons on professional corporate and event photographers in Edinburgh, Glasgow and throughout Scotland. As a professional corporate and conference photographer working in Edinburgh and Glasgow, I am often asked what I do when the conference season is quiet and the answer if that I am usually taking an entirely different type of photograph, but at the same time there are similarities and each genre of photography has skills relevant to it that can be applied to other photoshoots. Often conference photography can be quieter in the summer months, as these type of events are avoided when people take their vacations. So this summer I have been involved in wedding photography around Scotland, from Perth, Glasgow and very recently at the Lodge on Loch Lomond last month. Now the main difference between the seasons is that I spend a lot of time shooting outdoors, particularly for weddings, however, we all know that theory can fall flat due to the Scottish weather. The life of a wedding photographer in Scotland can be similar to a conference photographer in Edinburgh, you are photographing an event, with certain key moments at set times throughout the day. People often ask why I enjoy photographing the speeches at weddings and I reply that it is just like the speakers at a conference. Also weddings like other events, will present you with opportunities to photograph candid moments and to capture the emotion in the faces of the participants.
Another difference in the seasons is the type of sport you photograph, football and rugby are winter sports and athletics, apart from the indoor track season, tends to take place in the spring and summer, whilst indoor sports can take place all year round, although a lot of them will take place in the autumn or winter. I used to be a newspaper photographer in Edinburgh and the Lothians and this was obviously all year round but the jobs tended to be very seasonal, ie the gala days were in spring, football and rugby in the winter and then you had seasonal celebrations, such as Easter and Christmas. As some of you will know, I am also a landscape and infrared photographer in Scotland and although you can photograph infrared all year round, you need daylight and as much sun as possible, so the summer and spring are best, landscape can be achieved all year round but the days are shorter.
So, I could go on but the main aspect of this article is to emphasise that you can take photographs all year round and it can provide you with great opportunities to learn new skills and apply all you have learned to different genres of photography. So no excuses get out there and snap away.
Until next time.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk