For a uni project
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Paul Hands Photography Update
Hi again, well it's been a little while since posting on my blog. I've been rather busy. Me and my wife Lisa have been very hard at work with designing and building our new photography studio, which is now almost ready for an announcement of our open day. Please keep an eye for this because it's gonna be a great day where we'll be giving free portraits to anyone that comes along.
We've also been very hard at it with our photography studies and producing awesome commercial photography projects. I've been working on Guinness, my favourite beer of course! Here's a little teaser, showing the style of portraits being used in my Guinness advert (using my wife as a model)!
I've also been tinkering with my commercial photography brand and pricing structure. I've managed to keep it simple and the nice thing is my prices and commercial photography have already been proven to be exactly what my clients want and are happy to pay for. You can have a look at the structure here, believe me it's very easy to grasp.
I'm already taking lot's of bookings for 2015 and it seems like it's going to be a very busy year. A challenge that I'm ready for and really excited about. So I'll finish with a hook, let me know if you need any photography asap. If you like my style, then please do get in touch quite quickly because there is only one of me.
Guinness Advert - Models Required (male & female)
I'm creating a commercial project for a printed Guinness advert as part of my HND in Photography and I'm looking for 10 male and female models. The role of the model will be to attend the studio in Hinckley, drink from a pint of Guinness in order to create the largest Guinness moustache possible. I will then photograph the models quickly afterwards, so the moustache is still present and very visible. There is no fee for modelling, you will be paid with the pint of Guinness that I give you for the shoot. This is not associated with Guinness Ltd. and is to help me with my project. You may be required to complete a model release form for future use. My advert will look different to the one shown in the example above.
I would like to ask for your help, please click here to contact me and register your interest in helping me... CONTACT ME
Thank you in advance
Exciting Photography Project for the History of Hinckley
I'm searching for people that worked anywhere on the site of the new bus station redevelopment project 'The Crescent'. The art college in Hinckley (NWHC) has received some funding from Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council and Bowmers (the contractors) to produce a creative and artistic project to exhibit large scale portraits of people that worked on the site at any point in their lives. This is fantastic news because this will secure the history of this local part of Hinckley for many years to come. So if you have worked here or know anyone that has, please drop me a line with your phone number, email address and preference of a Thursday 1pm - 7:30pm or a Saturday morning between 9am and 1pm. This will be to come in to the studio at Hinckley college to have your portrait created. The photographs will be blown up and placed on billboards surrounding the bus station development along Waterloo Road.
Back at Uni
So I've been back at Unit for a week and already my head is fit to burst! I've been given 3 briefs already, a commercial photography brief, a 2000 word essay to accompany it and a professional practice project.
Well I'm excited about my commercial photography brief. It's based around advertising and I've chosen a fantastic product... Guinness.
I'm going to have my buried in a ton of books over the next couple of weeks but once I start creating the photography for the project, I'll be showing some off on my blog.
Check out my new website, it's awesome!
For those of you that haven't already seen, I've revamped my website. I must say that I love it and feel it works so much better than my original site.
I've opened a shop within my site too, and there is two products for sale at the moment. You can buy a print or one of my books using a secure payment system.
More importantly, I have a great platform to exhibit my work on-line now.
I've also set it up so that I can show my work as a commercial photographer and public relations photography within Hinckley, Leicestershire in the Midlands.
New Website
I've redone my website and changed the template theme all together. I've done this for SEO reasons. Most of my website wasn't designed very well for commercial photography and public relations photography. Plus there wasn't there right areas available for me to input my SEO keywords and phrases.
As an added bonus I think this shows off my talents and my photography much better. I'd appreciate some constructive criticism if you have the time to have a look through and give me some feedback.
I've spent some time multiplying my keywords and phrases so that they come up in a Google search more easily. I think I've got a grasp on it but you can never be sure. Well I hope this works better for me.
Night Photography Hinckley
I love making photographs at night time and in low light. The colours in the images are such much more vibrant than in the day time. There is a bit of skill to getting the shots too. I spotted the Super Moon last night in Hinckley as I was driving home. I knew as soon as I saw it that I would be running in home to grab my camera gear and tripod. I raced back to the location I spotted the moon because it moves really quickly and I didn't want it to move out of the frame that I'd pictured. Well here's the result... It did actually move slightly out of position to how I imagined it but never the less, this still looks quite cool.
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Hinckley Photographed 2nd Birthday →
It's our birthday at Hinckley Photographed. We're just 2 years old now. Here's a selection of images that we've made over the last 2 years. We were interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester at the beginning and was excited about reaching a thousand followers. Today we have 2579 people from all across the World following our photographic artwork. We've photographed HRH Prince Edward (Earl of Wessex), I won an award as the 2013 AOC Photographer of the Year, have been working with some very prestigious commercial clients. Lisa is doing really well with her newborn photography business 'Little Hands Photography'. We've got a lot of weddings booked for 2015 with 'Hands On Wedding Photography' really starting to take off.
My little business 'Paul Hands Photography' is doing really well. As artists, we're both growing at incredible speeds in terms of our quality and eye for a good photograph. As professional photographers in Hinckley, Leicestershire, we're becoming very well known for both Hinckley Photographed and our professional work ethics.
The most important factor in our success, is our joy and enthusiasm for our art. We respect photography and are returning to University again in two weeks time so we can spend our final year studying the HND in Photography before we enrol on our final, final year on the BA (Bachelor of Arts). We both feel incredibly privileged to be living this life and thank everybody that has helped us get here including those that follow us on Hinckley Photographed.
You're all amazing!
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Paris Photo
We're already making plans for this years trip to Paris Photo in November. We're going to be staying in a different hotel this year too, so no more late night Belushi's binge drinking! I'll be going all out to make an awesome body of work in the streets of Paris and this time with better knowledge of the City and a real eye for details but with an even better camera. I simply can't fail to produce some great street photography this time round. I didn't do a bad job last time either. I created 'The Parisian Grid' last year. A series of seven photographs that box individuals inside a virtual grid in the centre of one of the busiest Cities in Europe. City dwellers seem to fashion a life of solitude and only break out of their box occasionally so they can socialise or work. This series represents a metaphor for unachievable isolation. Here it is for those that haven't seen it before.
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