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Sigvaris, medical stockings photo-shoot. Liverpool studio work

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Hello,

I have lots of new photography work to show, I am starting off by showing some work I did for Sigvaris, they are a producer of medical stockings and need new images for their catalogue and for marketing use. They asked me to shoot for their brand, they needed a mixture of images totaling at 108 final studio images. I completed the images in a day and a half studio shoot, the post-production took about 7 days in total.

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Sigavris wanted a more realistic look for the shoot, this meant they chose regular people, some in their 70’s to model the products rather than slim supermodels who are not the target market for there products. They have let me know that they are happy with the images provided and of the service overall offered by Pack-Photo. I have some examples to show you,if you like them please leave a comment.

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Architecture Photography in York

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Hello again,

I don’t normally show my personal photography but I does give clients an idea of my photography skills. I am showing a photograph I did when I was in York, It is a small castle on a small mound in the Center of York City, formerly used as a prison. It is a well known landmark and I thought I was definitely worth taking a stunning photo of it. I have done a lot of Photoshop retouching to it.

I have removed the handle which was leading up the stairs, I also removed the handle which follows the top of the castle. I have removed a few tourists out of the image and I have replaced the door which a image I have of a church door. I have tweaked the levels and contrast in Photoshop. It took a long time to do but it was really worth it. I will be putting it into a stock photography library if anyone wants to make use of my work.

If you are interested in seeing more of my architecture photography from York or from around the Northwest then send me a message and I will update the blog with more beautiful photographs like this one.

Many thanks,

Phillip.

Product Photographers Liverpool

Photography services for local Liverpool Businesses

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Hello,

Thank you for taking an interest in my photography blog. This time I will be showing you a few photographs from a shoot I did last week. It was for a local Liverpool business called ‘Intratech’. They contacted my through a marketing company to produce a set of images to show off there products which is heat lamps for the car painting industry.

We did different type product images for them, some are white background images to clearly show the products for leaflets and websites. We also worked on some location photography images as well, showing the products in a real world situation. We set up the shoot in a car painters near where the clients business is based. I have done some tweaks to the final images in Photoshop, I do offer high level post-production services to all my clients.

The images turned out well, just how I wanted them to…and the clients are very happy and have already booked another product photography shoot with Pack-Photo. The paint booth worked out for the images because it was fairly clean for a busy car painters booth, and it has its own lighting which was just about bright enough for my cameras to work with.

If you need product photography please get in touch and we can chat about your image needs.

Many thanks,

Phillip.

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still life, before and after retouching skills.

Still life photography, before and after Photoshop Retouching skills.

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Hello again,

This week I am showing a drinks photography image that I did not long ago. As you can see it is an example of a before and after the Photoshop retouching. When you look close at the detail you can see how much work has gone into the post-production side of a photography shoot. This amount of work takes around 1.5 hours in Photoshop, but when you need 12 final images the time soon adds up. When seeing the before and after photographs it shows the skill level we have at Pack-Photo and the experience level needed to do high end product and drinks photography. If you like still life photography or you are in need of a photographer to create some premium still life images for your business then have a look around the Pack-Photo website and give me a call to talk about your image needs.

Editorial Photography, front cover image

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Hello again,

I have been known to have my image featured on the front cover of some editorial photography and I wanted to show them off. This example was a editorial photography shoot in Liverpool for a company called Intratech. They sell heat lamps for the car bodywork industry.

I have done product photography for this business before and they brought me in again to shoot for the front cover of Repair & Refinish Review, it’s a trade magazine for the car bodywork industry. The lighting was tricky for this photo-shoot, I used natural light as my main light source, I also balanced this with a studio flash head which I used as a fill-in flash, but there is also the light from the heat lamp to consider which I was able to balance as well.

When I was shooting I had be considerate about the composition, the fact that I needed to leave room for the Magazine title at the top of the image, also there would be other text on the front cover. I think I got the balance right and as you can see it has worked well as a front cover shot for a trade editorial.

After the shoot I process the images from RAW format into TIFF, I then work on them in Photoshop to get a nicer finish to the photograph. Only when I start working with extra layer would I then save the photograph as a Photoshop file format. People like Megan Trianor seem to have a problem with Photoshop, but not me….

Thanks again for reading my blog, if you have any requests on what should be in my blog just contact me and I will consider your suggestions. If you are planning a photo-shoot for your business please get in touch and we can talk about your image needs.

Many thanks

Phillip.

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Liverpool Restaurant Photography, food, drink and atmosphere

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Hello again,

I was asked by Liverpool Marketing Company to do a photoshoot of a Turkish BBQ restaurant called ‘Istanbul’, Its a small restaurant with great staff and a experienced Chef. The images are to be used on the restaurants website, menus, and social media marketing. We had friends to come in and model as customers for the shoot, best to do this as customers may not want to be in the photographs.

It was an all day shoot where we created many high end images, photographs of the service, this would be waiters talking to customers, chef making the food, customers enjoying their food, and photographs of the food in situ. The food needed to look fresh so as it was made it would be placed on the table where I had set-up my photography equipment, I would only get about a minute to photograph it then it would go to the models for there free lunch for working for us on the day.

It is always challenging when there is a lot of work to do on the day, this means there is not lots of time to photograph each item. But the results turned out to be excellent, and the clients where extremely happy with results from the photography.

I recommend you eat at ‘Istanbul’ one evening to sample authentic Turkish BBQ food.

If you require food photography Liverpool then call or email or a chat about your image needs.

Thanks for reading,

Phillip.

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food photographer liverpool

Liverpool Photographer, Google search term success

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I have been monitoring my website and how well it ranks on google, today I have found out that I am on the first page of google with the search term ‘Liverpool photographer‘, I have done this with my own SEO (search engine optimisation) skills but I owe a big thank you to the online community who visit my website which is why it ranks so highly. It took a lot of work and its a great sign of things to come.

I have been ranking very well with search terms like ‘liverpool commercial photographer‘ ‘liverpool product photography’ ‘merseyside product photographer’ ‘merseyside commercial photography’, in fact I have been number one on these terms for months now. But the big one for me has always been the search term ‘Liverpool photographer’ and I am feeling pretty good about it.

I hope you like reading my blog, if so please get in touch or add comments.

Thanks again.

Phillip

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Southport photography, charity event

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Hello again,

I was asked to be the photographer at a charity bike ride called ‘Bucket and Spade’. Locals ride from Southport to Blackpool and back again to raise money for a good cause. When they asked me to do the Southport photography I thought ‘why not’, I want to help out for a good cause and to be an active member in the community.

The images were to be used in the local paper and to feature in a magazine ‘Simply Southport’, the charity organizers were very happy with the results as was I. It was a challenge as it was a very hot summers day and I was only taking pictures, the riders did find it harder to ride in such heat but there was some stops along the way, it is the taking part that counts.

 

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Southport photography, charity event, Merseyside.

Liverpool Business Photoshoot: Case study

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Hello again,

I wanted to do a case study on one of my photography briefs and I have chosen the photoshoot I did of local estate agents ‘Harrison and Co’. They had just moved location and opened a new office in Liverpool and they asked me to do take photographs off the office, the building and headshots of the staff. I set up my studio flash heads in the office, bounced the lights off the ceiling and balanced them with the daylight as it was a sunny day. Most of the shots were taken on 1/125th of a second, F5.6 and at ISO 400.

I like the tones in the images, mostly neutral colours, it is only the staff clothes that have any colour added to the photography. I have kept the images looking minimal, there are just hints of office equipment used to frame the composition, also as they are not in focus it helps lead the viewer to look at the subjects I am photographing.

I also took headshot photographs of the staff which turned out really well, using the office as a backdrop, looks much better than plain white background business headshots.

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I hope you like the photography blog about the Harrison Liverpool business photoshoot, I will update it again so keeping checking the blog. If you would like to request a topic for the blog please don’t hesitate to ask me and I will get to work on it.

Phil.

Merseyside photographer, Triumph Motobike shoot.

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Hello,

As a professional photographer working in Merseyside and around the North of England I shoot many different types of products and services for business. I enjoy it not matter what the business is, but when you are asked to to a photography commission for something else that you are passionate about then it can be something really special.

I did this photo shoot of an old Triumph motorbike which has some parts upgraded, you can see the modern suspension and the wheels. It is a cool looking bike. I have shot these bikes in a photography studio environment.  I used lots of studio flashes to get a even lighting on the background I didn’t use any softboxes, I wanted some lights to be a fake sunlight and the other lights are used to fill in deep shadow areas on the bike itself so the detail in the engine can be seen, I have back lit the bike slightly to create strong shadows in the foreground.

Once the shoot was finished and when I had processed the images I got to work in Photoshop, I changed the colour of the background as I shoot the bike on white. I changed it to a colour that would match the colours on the paintwork of the bike which helps to asethetics of the photograph. Its complimentary and helps to join subject and background together to work in a harmony. I gives the photograph balance, I think the other reason why it works so well is the composition, the position of the bike in the frame. Its all aspects of the design that goes into an image when it is being created. There are so many variants but with experience and control they all come together and make for premium photography.

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I hope you like my photography blog about Pack-Photo, Merseyside photographer. Please get in touch if you have a motorbike or car that you would like a professional photographer to work with you on.

Thanks,

Phillip.

Liverpool Product Photography, Location shoot

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Hello again,

I wanted to talk about some location photography which Pack-Photo has worked on, this shoot was for a Liverpool Marketing company. The client is called ‘Power-tech’.

The shoot is for home work-out equipment so the location for the shoot was set in a garden, the model was sourced from a local gym so she is the real deal. It was good to get a model who knows about how to do an effective work-out because she could guide me in what exercises are going to work with the equipment we are photographing.

I didn’t want to use too much photography equipment, I used a Nikon flash gun with a wireless flash trigger and placed them on a lighting stand. The flash is positioned to the right of the camera and I have balanced the power of the light to work with the ambient light from the Sun, I used a diffuser on the flash and the flash was on at full power, to control the brightness I choose to move the flash closer or further away rather than altering the flash gun power levels. The time was around 3.30pm and the light was fading.

I wanted the focus to be reduced for the background which helps the subject to stand out, I used f/8 which gives the look I had in mind. I am very happy with how the photograph turned out, I did some tweaks to the photograph in Photoshop, I made a new layer, only selected the background and altered the levels, saturation, contrast as it needed a boost to look like a technically perfect final photograph.

I hope you liked my talk on Pack-photo’s Liverpool Product Photography, Location shoot. Please get in touch if you are looking for a professional photographer and I will be happy to answer any questions you have.

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Commercial photography image by Pack-Photo

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Hello again,

I am going to chat about the image that is on all of the Pack-Photo marketing material. Its an image of to wooden hands touching, it is made to be recognized for referencing a famous painting by Michelangelo ‘The Creation of Adam’. Its a post-modern technique which is to use concepts that are already well known and to re-use them, sometimes it looks like a straight copy and other times it looks like a clever reference which makes the viewer feel intelligent when they get the reference.

I took the image on a large format digital camera, I took several shots of the hands in different positions which were later imported into Photoshop. I cut out the wooden hands and dropped them into a graduated grey background. It was a simple image to produce but very effective, this image is more about the concept and aesthetics than anything else.

I wanted to show off my Photography skills but also to show that I can do more than just technical product photography but conceptual photography too. I have chosen to use the image in my marketing material as it symbolizes beings connecting to each other which is the reason why people want to use photography for business, it connects to the viewer, photography can reach out to an audience in a way other mediums can not. I hope you like to image and Pack-Photo’s commercial photography. If you do then please leave a comment.

Thanks for reading.

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Premium Photoshop retouching, Liverpool

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to do a show and tell of one of my images. It is of a puddle which I have made into the shape of the UK using Photoshop and my retouching skills, it takes a lot of work to create an image like this and I am going to reveal how it was made.

The first and most important part of this image was to have the concept before starting to take images, having a vision of what you want to create and that if all goes to plan it will be a successful image is so very important, when making this I almost gave up as I became concerned it would not work. It took around 7 hours to retouch in Photoshop and I used 5 different images to create it. I used my Mamiya RZ 67 Pro II medium format film camera, I shot it using slide film and scanned in the slides to my computer.

I took shots of different puddles which had different shapes, I did this so I could cut out small pieces and drop them onto one chosen puddle image from which to build on, using layer masks I could blend the pieces into the main image, the final result is a subtle shape which was my intention, I wanted to include Northern Ireland but I knew that another puddle next to this one wouldn’t look the best. One of my images of puddles had a wet leaf in it and I thought that it would work well.

When I showed the image to others, even to other photographers, they would ask me “how did you find a puddle in that shape” well I didn’t but I shows that the image works so well, deceiving even other professionals is a great accomplishment.

The image won a photography flair competition held by Creativematch website. Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.

Phill.

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Pack-Photo premium commercial photography in Merseyside, Liverpool, Manchester and the Northwest.

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Hello,

I am starting a blog for Pack-Photo which is a premium commercial photography in Merseyside, Liverpool, Manchester and the Northwest. I hope you enjoy looking at great photographs or learning what Pack-photo does as a business.

I will start with an image which is what Pack-Photo does best, premium product photography. It a white background still life image of a gaming headset, one thing which makes the image premium is the lighting control used to enhance the look of the product. This is created by using carefully positioned reflectors and studio flash heads very close to the product itself. Other studio flashes are used to light the background.

Once the lighting has been perfected and the correct exposure has been worked out, then its just a matter of pressing the shutter and the shot is finished, well the first step is finished, next the image is processed and uploaded into Photoshop where the magic happens, the post-production of the images improves the look of the image greatly. The image is cut out so the background is an even white, the levels are checked and any blemishes are removed. This image has had a lot to tweaks to the top of what is the head band, it has provided with a smooth and consistent look which helps make the product look slick and stylish.

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I hope you like reading about product photography as I have a lot more images to show and to talk about. Until next time.