Cathy of Rose-NV in Northampton wanted to start doing some business videos, but felt a little overwhelmed by the idea and wasn’t sure where to start. We spent an hour together. Met over a coffee, talked about her business and then a few things that would help her create simple videos with clear messages. Then we jumped straight in – best way sometimes. It took only a few takes and at the end of it Cathy was a lot more comfortable in front of the camera and had this lovely little 20 second video to show for it. If you need similar help let me know.
Projects
House of Ilona (2)
My second photography session with Camelle. We sort out before hand what ‘conversations’ Camelle will be having on her social media then work together on creating the photos. Camelle takes on the role of hand model and includes herself in photos to show her working day.
The Northampton Cleaning Fairy
Ann Brebner asked me to create a collection of Message Boards that she could ‘talk’ on through the year of her #50Challenge. A challenge as The Northampton Cleaning Fairy; 50 hours of her own time, to clean 50 homes, to mark her 50th birthday. This is an on going project.
Stacks
Stacks and I ‘talk’ regularly about particular messages and blogs they are putting together to catch the eye of new clients. These photos were to work with the words ‘Finding properties with the wow factor”.
Time For You (Northants)
Time for You (Northants) is a regular client of mine and as part of their campaigns I create ‘talking photos’. These are part of a collection that I put together for their Spring Clean posts on social media.
House of Ilona (1)
House of Ilona is a fashion house based in Milton Keynes where owner and designer Camelle, designs clergy dresses, blouses and tops. Camelle, asked me if I could take a collection of photos for her to use in her social media ‘conversations’. We chatted before hand about what she wanted, agreed on the props that we would need and created the shots in the office of House of Ilona.
Little Sunshine Hut
Sarah wanted some photos of her products to put on her new website and a leaflet she was putting together. Being a local business she dropped her products off to me, we talked about layout ideas and agreed a deadline.
This is my most unusual, and colourful, project to date!
Forever Living (Ann Brebner)
A collection of photos talking about the Forever Living shakes and the 9 day detox. With no set instructions each one was quite different!
Time For You (Northants)
A collection of photos that I did for Time For You (Northants). Their objective was to be fun and to catch the attention of busy people over Christmas who might not have thought about the option of a ‘one off Christmas clean’.
Stacks
These are a set of photos that I took for Stacks for use in an article they were writing for Four Shires – January ’17 edition – “How Schools Impact on the Property Market”.
JMH Stock Shop
These were ‘experimental’ photos taken by me when brainstorming the idea of a stock shop for my Message Boards. Something that is still being worked on.
Anna Forgaard Marketing Consultancy
Anna Forgaard is a Marketing Consultant who makes contact with existing and future clients through newsletters. Anna asked me to take some photos with ‘Marketing Messages, good & bad’.
Time For You (Northants)
Ann Brebner asked me to take some photos that she could use to ‘talk’ to potential clients. These are the first photos I took for Ann and the brief she gave me was ‘Family & Home’.
Time For You (Northants)
These photos are from my second project with Time For You (Northants) – ‘The Cleaning Fairy’. Ann wanted some fun with the idea of a Cleaning Fairy, which is what we did and had!
Birchfield Flowers
Birchfield Flowers is a new venture by a local lady called Elyse. She had just started a blog about her flower garden and asked me to take a few photos that she could use along side her words.
Friars Farm
Friars Farm make, amongst other things, delicious chutneys, jellies, jams and marmalades. So when their marmalade won bronze in the World Marmalade Awards they asked me to take some photos to use in their marketing.
Bonfirecherry
Matthew asked me for some message boards, which I took in his studio, that he could use to announce fairs he would be attending, new products or sales.
Cenu Cacao
Rosemary makes chocolate in her shop in Leamington Spa – from bean to bar – and asked me if I would take photos in the shop for her to use on her website.
Karen Kissane Coaching
Stepped out of my photography comfort zone for a friend who wanted some photos for her website. We worked together on ideas and, well, it was fun!
Love Nails
Lisa is a nail technician based in Northamptonshire. A busy lady who works from home but also offers a mobile service. Lisa asked me if I could take some photos for her that would work with the wedding season.
Love Nails
The next time I did some work with Lisa was a couple of weeks before Mothers Day. She wanted to talk about her voucher on social media and needed some photos to use for promoting treatment vouchers.
West Shark
Product photography for a new business that had just started printing up t-shirts in Spain, called West Shark. My first project featuring people so initially a little awkward but a lot of fun!
Kerry Sage (Artist)
Kerry Sage was having an art exhibition at J Gallery in Moulton and asked me to take some photos of her paintings that she could use in her marketing posts.
Friars Farm
I met Steve and Caroline at their home where they make all their lovely salsas, jellies and more. They are amazing people who love creating new flavours. These photos were part of a general collection for them to use on their social media.
Ink Print & Design
Ink, Print & Design are a family run printing business, based in Market Harborough. They asked me to visit their factory and take general photos that they could use on advertising literature.
The Rose Gallery
Deborah asked me to take photos of the Richard Cooper bronze sculptures in the gallery. The brief was to keep things natural and to give customers an idea of their size which she was happy I did.
Indigo Soul
Running alongside her courses Jan has a Tictail shop with an array of products that include healing crystals. It was for this shop that she asked me to take some product shots.
Stacks
Day to day I keep an eye out for any photo opportunity that could link to the subject of house hunting. These photos are then used by Stacks on their social media channels.
Bonfirecherry
Matthew wanted some photos that would ‘show off’ a new product of his. He wanted something that would give his customers an idea on how the knotwraps could be used.
Bonfirecherry
Bonfirecherry is a Northampton-based business that creates beautiful prints, bags, brooches using linocut.
The owner had always done his own product photography but asked me to help him with 2 products when I was offering a free service for a month.
Stacks
Rachel runs the Northants branch of Stacks, a property finding business that needs a broad selection of constantly updated photographs, to use for social media and articles.
