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.
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.
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…
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.
Flash Memory: Flash memory has problem for data retention
Over time, the cells will lose their charge state. Approximately 5-7 years.
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
Solid State Disk ( SSD )
SSD is working on the same technology as Flash memory, hence not suitable as data retention media.
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
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.
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
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.
We’re enjoying the weather while we can, great to be able to sit out in the garden on a very warm and sunny August day. I just wish we had more of these kind of days in the UK. Hazel is a keen gardener and has certainly got green fingers. So while I sat in garden I thought I would capture some of the wonderful colours we have around us, hope you enjoy them too.
Making sure the light is coming from a direction other than from your camera position provides more interesting image, otherwise it can appear somewhat flat, which isn’t particularly appealing. A good rule of thumb is having the sun at between 45 – 80 degrees to your camera position and the subject you are photographing.
Get an interesting composition, I prefer close up shots myself as you can see. Using a shallow depth of field helps to blur the background, I was using f5.6 for this shot. This isn’t a macro lens so I couldn’t get particularly close to the flowers and achieve focus, but I used the zoom to fill the frame more.
I would love to know which image you prefer and why
Well this article is combining two of my great passions, Photography and Food. My dear wife Hazel is probably the best cook in the world (as far as I’m concerned anyway) and my waist line can prove it. She is forever making great meals and photographing them to show her friends on Facebook. So I told her to improve her photography of food by following a few tips from our portrait business. I don’t photograph food in a professional capacity, but the basic ingredients of good photography apply to whatever you’re photographing whether that be people, pets, landscape or food.
Good lighting – making the food look tasty is the aim of the game
Good composition – making the photo look interesting
Good Lighting
Avoid lighting your food under artificial lighting conditions, such as light bulbs or florescent lights, as these cause the food to look ugly due to their colour cast. Light bulbs will make the food look a yellowy colour and florescent lighting will make it look greenish (which is not particularly flattering if it happens to be meat).
You can, depending on your camera, set the colour balance to counteract these lighting effects if you have no other option, but it is much easier to photograph your food using natural light from a window. Not just because it takes away the colour balance problem, but also because the light will be coming from a more suitable direction, rather than coming from above (in the instance of artificial lighting from the middle of your ceiling) it will be coming from a side direction (assuming your windows are embedded in your walls).
Check out the examples below a see how the light is coming either from the side or from behind. Avoid lighting from your camera position as this provides a flat lighting effect. You want to add a sense of three dimension to your photos by adding light and shadow to your food, this makes it look more natural and interesting.
Good Composition
Make the food look interesting, have it in a real world situation, such as a table, not too distracting background, although something in the background can sometimes add to the interest, shallow depth of field, to blur the background so that the attention is directed to the food.
All the images below are taken by Hazel and all the food is cooked by her
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