Yep choice is all we have.

Well Puma, customers book me on what they see. If I put older old fashioned techniques on my website some would want it. Customers want what they see.

Customers do not come to me and say "I will book you if you do spot colouring of my photographs". Some (well only one) may ask after. If they do then how you tell them dictates how they react. If they ask, I explain how it is, I tell them it is an old fashioned technique that is no longer practised by professional photographers.

The one that asked was persistent they wanted it. The photograph was of her son sat on the grass surrounded by confetti. She wanted everything in black and white and the confetti in colour. My contract states extra processing of images is chargeable at £45 per hour. I explained the image would take about an hour and a half to process at the cost of £65.

At that point the image wasn't as needed as she thought and she left it.

I am photographing her sisters wedding in August this year.

Yes I do a lot of weddings and most of my work is from referrals. Does that answer your question I am happy to answer anything you would like to ask.

ps it is not the photograph you used I disliked (I would dislike any photo you used) it is the technique, if it works for you then use it.

Hi Tyronet200 those points sure do cover all photography, the licentiateship is basically the starter level.

Crowd control are what ushers are for

Choice is yours but I will tell it straight even if it is hard to hear it. I do not do what customers want, I do, what I do.

OK,

Categories of Licentiateship

LSWPP - Licentiate of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers

"What we expect of a Licentiate

We are looking for images that show the applicant is in full control of the medium. The images should show correct camera technique, full control of the lighting and the final production of the finished image. Many images fail at the last hurdle because the final digital file or print quality is poor, blemishes that should have been retouched or poor presentation. Very often colour balance is wrong. We expect to see that the photographer is in control of the subjects portrayed and in the case of people, that they are posed in an attractive manner and good expressions obtained.

The images should be presented in such a way that if the judges were members of the public they could not reasonably be rejected. In other words they are “of marketable quality”.

The LSWPP is the basic level that a photographer can obtain. It is made up of a panel of 20 images submitted to a judging panel.

Hope that explains it.

I promised myself that I would always be honest and truthful in forums so here goes. Please do not use this technique. It went out of fashion in wedding photography about three years ago and the vintage look is fast going that way too.

The technique was discussed at length two years ago in the SWPP forum as the result of a submission for an LSWPP qualification which was rejected with these types of images in.

Well I think those that say the 16-50 is soft at 2.8 can think again. Excellent work Gary.

I have been using a full screen website for ages. The problem is you need a good web hosting package to make sure your website is fast.

Secondly, most screens are now 16:9 or 16:10 and laptops can be all odd sizes. A 1920 x 1080 shot does look great but due to the screens can be compromised by the aspect of the screen the website is being viewed on. My opening pages are now a photograph within at 3:2 on an HD image. By that I mean the image is 1920 x 1080 but the image you see on the opening page in 1275 x 850. Doing this will also allow me to have portrait orientated shots in the sideshows.

The galleries at this time are all 1920 x 1080 but I am in the process of changing all the galleries to be like the home page.

But yes having large images does have an good impact. The down side is you can't usually get a lot on text on your homepage which affects your SEO.

I have one too with a mint brand new 18-55 WR. The shutter count is about 2000.

In the box and all the bits. The lens is about 2 months old the camera I gt in Jan for testing.

Drop me an offer.

There is a 50-135 one at the London Camera Exchange in Norwich up for £499 fyi.