All posts by Mike Turner

Clothing ideas for your Portrait Photoshoot

Having fun with photos

If you’ve been wondering what to wear for your upcoming photoshoot, there’s a couple of things to keep in mind. Make sure all those participating in the photoshoot are comfortable with what they are wearing.Being uncomfortable during the shoot will translate onto the photographs, so make sure clothing fits well.

Also if someone is particular conscious of a particular body part, say for instance they don’t want to show their arms off, then wear clothing that will cover the arms to aid the photographer. We won’t be able to cut your arms out of the photos, so covering is the best option in this scenario.

If there is a group of you having your photographs taken together, try to ensure you coordinate both the style and colours, so that they go together as a group. Having someone dressed formally, while someone else is dressed casually won’t look right on the final photographs. The same applies to colour, think about what you want to see on your walls. for instance bright greens mixed with dark purple will look odd visually. As a rule of thumb neutral colours look best, but rules are made to be broken sometimes.

We have a few ideas for you to look at below, if you have any additional questions regarding clothing, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Facebook Cover Graphics FREE download

Giveaways

For something alittle bit different why not have your name on a graphic for your Facebook cover image. Feel free to get any from here, alternatively just complete the form below and we’ll be happy to email you one for Free. If you have a particularly long name it is best to use a shortened version or nickname instead.

facebook cover image hazel
facebook cover image mike
facebook cover image Chris

Using our Love, Peace, Happiness, joy background with your name in the foreground in bright vivid colours. Let us know what colour variation you would prefer 1-4 below. Remember the graphics are free for you to use on Facebook. Higher resolution versions are also available to use for larger format printing. They do look cool printed bigger. £20 for the digital file. All copies must retain the miketurnerphotos.co.uk wording to use.

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Write once read forever MDisc – Don’t lose your memories!

Learn Photography

Did you know that storage devices used at the moment have a limited storage life of less than 10 years? Which means you could lose your precious photographs, data, and music. I really didn’t realise this myself so looked further into it, this is what if found out…

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Hard Drives  have two disadvantages

  • Mechanical failure can occur any time due to the rotation depreciation.
  • Data will be vanished due to the earth magnetic field. In most cases the data corruption starts when data is not re-written within 5 years.

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Flash Memory: Flash memory has problem for data retention

  • Over time, the cells will lose their charge state. Approximately 5-7 years.

 

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Magnetic Tape: This is the most common long-term archiving technology

  • Very sensitive to the storage environment, humidity and temperature must be well-controlled or the tape will fail
  • Standard practice is to re-build the archive every 3 years to ensure the archive

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Solid State Disk ( SSD )

  • SSD is working on the same technology as Flash memory, hence not suitable as data retention media.

 

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Optical Media ( CD-R/DVD±R/Blu-Ray ):

  • Optical drive is the most common use data carrier system
  • The lifetime of optical media is highly depended on the storage environment
  • Very sensitive for the UV.

None of these storage media lasts longer than 8 years…scary if you have lots of images archived thinking they provide lasting memories that you can come back to again and again.

MDiscs can hold data for 1000 years! I liked the product so much I bought the company…only joking. But we do now sell the discs here. They are genuine Ritek manufactured discs (created by Millenniata) that we get directly from the exclusive UK distributors. They have an anti-scratch surface (unlike many in the market). Please read the technical data and compatibility data PDF below for further information before making a purchase. M-DISC Introduction-Traxdata-R and Final Technical Report1

MDisc last 1000 years

Traxdata M-DISC DVD Printable
3 x M-DISC in “3 in 1” silver DVD box.

You will need the starter pack if you don’t already own a M-Disc writer.

DVDs that last 1000 years

Starter-kit: LG External slim M-Ready
writer + 3 x M-DISC in retail pack

 

If you’re interested in purchasing any of these products please drop me an email and I can give you an idea of prices etc

Run a Facebook Competition and get more customers

Running a Photography Business

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  • Encourage more likes for your Facebook page,
  • Increase your customer base,
  • Engage with your community,
  • Create buzz and chatter about your brand

All good reasons to host a photo competition on your Facebook page.

We can do all the integration for you, while you just sit back and reap the benefits. Drop me an email for further information. £60 for 2 week competition…you can’t go wrong.

I increased my page likes by over 100 within 48 hours, 300 overall, booked in 10 sessions from the competition. You can further boost your competition by promoting it using Facebook’s ‘Promote post’ paid service and aim it at your target market or/and use Google’s Adwords to boost traffic to your page. Both these methods involve investing a little bit more capital, but can significantly boost your competitions visibility. I have used both to get more eyeballs on the competition, which hopefully sells itself once people arrive at the page. You can promote either through a daily budget or lifetime (of the competition) budget, from as little as you like. We would be happy to advise you what has worked for us in this respect.

Our aim is to help photographers by providing solutions that equate to profit, that can be easily measured for ROI. We want to build long term relationships with other photographers for the mutual benefit of the industry. Please get in touch with me if you are interested.

Below are some pointers about what is important about running your own Facebook Competition.

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