Hi All

A quick blog with some additional tips for conference photographers.  As a professional corporate event photographer out and about in Edinburgh and throughout Scotland, I photograph a lot of conferences, in fact, this is my specialist area of photography.  In previous blogs, I have provided some tips for conference photography.  This time I will include a few unusual ones, but important never the less.  Here they are:

1. Dress appropriately.  I would say jeans and trainers are not appropriate for a conference photographer.  Just dress smartly, no need for a suit and tie.  Smart shoes and a nice shirt are fine, don't wear too many layers, you will get hot, as you are dashing about all day.

2. Always sound like you know what you are talking about, even if you don't.  Make sure you answer concisely, if asked by the organiser or delegates, don't say "I am not sure I will try that and see what happens"  I once heard a photographer say this, it didn't inspire confidence.

3. Once you have taken the photos, get out of the way and stay out of sight, the delegates are not there to see you.

4. By all means take some business cards, but don't tout for business during the conference, its not very professional.  You can give out cards if asked though.

5. Be careful with your gear.  You may have insurance but its not worth ruining your gear and be careful with the delegates.  I once dropped a flash and thankfully caught it before it landed on a delegates head.  No insurance will help you out in this case, you just wont be asked again.  So I am now very, very careful.

Hope that helps.

Until next time.

Kind Regards

Colin Wright

www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk

www.edinburghphotographer.com

Hi All

A quick blog from your ever intrepid professional event and landscape photographer from around Edinburgh.  A break from the conference and corporate photography in Scotland and time for some infrared photos from Portobello in Edinburgh.  Today I am going to talk about realistic infrared photos.  If I hadn't told you the attached photo was infrared photography, you would never have known.  Sometimes infrared photography, through using a converted camera, can be a good way of creating a very contrasty image with a high structure content to it.  This is partly because infrared highlights which ordinary cameras are unable to detect and all you have to do is to convert the image to black and white and up the contrast and structure and you have a really dynamic black and white photograph.  This means that infrared converted cameras can be very useful for landscape photography and while I like to do some whacky colour stuff, I also like realistic black and white images taken with an infrared converted camera.  Of course it depends on the filter you have in your converted infrared camera, although even some of the filters designed for colour infrared can also create good black and white images.  The best filter is a 720, which is not so good for colour infrared but great for black and white stuff.

Anyway, its goodbye from me until next time.  Some conference photography in Edinburgh next week and supercar motor sport at the weekend.

All the best.

Regards

Colin

www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk

www.edinburghphotographer.com

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