Don’t forget the print special below closes this Wednesday, your best chance to save around 25% off your purchase of wedding and landscape prints.
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Hurry! Print Special Closes Soon
July 26, 2010Red Hot Print Specials. Limited Time
July 18, 2010My print lab is having a sale, so that means I can pass on the savings to you! If you have wondering to get Nan for her birthday, been pondering if you wanted to order that canvas of your favourite wedding photo or you want to give a unique art print to a loved one, now is you chance.
Kodak Endura Metallic Prints in a traditional Black Gallery Frame with a digital paper coloured matt. 20×30″ Frame size only. Normally $220, now $150 with Free Delivery
16×20″ Kodak Endura Metallic Print on 10mm black craftwood with hand made aluminium ‘U’ channel hanger. Normally $250, Now $180 with Free Delivery
16×20″ Premium Canvas (white edge only, not pictured), Normally $350, Now $260 or 20×30″ Premium Canvas, Normally $600, Now $400 with Free Delivery
How do you order? Just simply send me an email to marcel@mvphotography.com.au and tell me the product you are after out of the list above, along with the image number or description/title (in the case of a landscape prints). Make immediate payment to PayPal using my email address or request my account details for direct deposit. Don’t forget to mention your daytime AND evening delivery addresses. Your orders must be in by midnight Wednesday 28th of July to take advantage of the special prices. happy ordering.
New Tool In My Tool Box – Adobe Lightroom 3
June 12, 2010
The long awaited release of Lightroom 3 has finally arrived much sooner than anticipated and with even more features loaded into it than the Beta version that was available up until about 8 months ago. The new features will make any photographer’s job easier as well as give their clients a more professional result in less time. These include industry leading Noise Reduction for high ISO images, Camera Tethering to a computer, a new Slideshow Export to Flash with music imbedding, newer and easier to use Printing Module, Photo Collections right in the Develop Module and the biggest kicker here is the Lens Correction feature. The Lens Correction and the Noise Reduction is worth the price alone for me, allowing me not to worry about lens distortions in camera and boosting the ISO beyond ISO1600 when I need to capture that important moment in low light.
Previous wedding clients will now see a new lease on their images when purchasing prints and photo books as some of the images allow greater cropping and enlargement options. I’ll even be able to dig up some more images from the archives that I thought weren’t suitable for showing, as now I can change them to better suit my vision from when I took the photograph.
For a full run down on the product and to purchase head to Adobe’s website here.
May Catch Up with MV Photography
May 12, 2010- Thanks to all that contributed registrations of interest with MV Photography for Digital SLR training. I am still taking ideas and feedback, so read the post below for further details.
- I am still choosing a quality photobook supplier for my range of wedding photography albums. There of course is an extensive range, but I’m choosing carefully to ensure quality and great value.
- New business cards and brochures are in development at the moment, so stay tuned.
- More of favourite images from the archives will be posted in the coming weeks including some that have never seen the light of day from my trip to the United States in 2008 and some more wedding photos.
- To give you all a taste of some photography training I am posting some of my own images with critiques attached. This is to show some of the thought processes when I’m behind the camera, the metering and focusing modes I used, the use of aperture and shutter speed as well as elaborate on my vision for the photograph from capture to print.
- In the coming months I will be running a quick and easy competition to any followers out there. Stay tuned for the details, but you can win a mounted, limited first edition landscape print from MV Photography.
What Websites I Visit
May 2, 2010Hi all, on my old blog I had a list of websites I always visited on a regular basis, which I never really updated. So every now and then I will post links to interesting websites, whether they are wedding related, photography in general, Photoshop related or of any inspirational photographers I follow. I’ll start with the ones below.
http://www.wpja.com/ A site i visit every now and then to juice up on images before I go shoot a wedding. It has great examples of award winning photojournalistic images all shot at weddings.
http://www.dpreview.com/ Where the nerd in me goes to get some user feedback on products, find out the latest gossip on gear not yet released and for some general time wasting.
http://www.canonrumors.com/ All the latest up to the minute Canon rumours are found here.
http://www.scottkelby.com/ The man that is the authority on all things Photoshop.
That will will do for now, but more will come in the near future.
The most amazing Wedding Video
May 2, 2010I have always been fascinated with video shot on Canon’s latest video/still camera hybrids the 5D MkII and the new 7D, because they have a true cinematic look and a smoothness not present in HD DV cameras due to their limited sensor sizes. I always keep up to date with what is happening in this world of video and I stumbled across this video by Pacific Pictures. It goes for 29minutes and was shot in India, centred around a wedding that actually occurred. The video was shot in a true cinematic style with obviously a fairly large budget and professional movie rigging. The video is truly amazing and is worth the long download time as it was shot in true HD. Watch it here.
20% Off 16×24″ and 20×30″ Acrylic Bolt Frames
April 16, 2010
April Catch Up
April 1, 2010No, there won’t be any April Fools jokes inserted here. I think everyone is too smart to pick up on it!
- There has been some website updates over the last weekend (long overdue), with a completely refreshed Gallery section including all new wedding images, personal work and projects as well as commissioned works. The Archives page has been sorted into a more category friendly format making it easier to navigate all the blog articles. A links page has been added ready for a list of vendor contacts in the wedding industry and other sites/blogs of interest.
- My first sample of PicPress Proof Albums have arrived which enables you to view all your photos taken on your wedding day, for example, all in one neat book package. Super glossy personalised front cover and all your images arranged in a 12 per page format. Keep an eye out for a blog post about them.
- Coming soon is a sample for my range of coffee table books, but due to printer delays I won’t see them for another couple of weeks.
- New photography packages are on the way to include the printed proof albums and photobooks. Hopefully they will be easier to understand to allow easy selection of a package to suit your wedding.
- In the coming months I will have a completely updated printing and mounting products page with images and detailed descriptions, assuring you, the client, get the best in printed products.
- Books I’ve read and reading; Within the Frame by David DuChemin and Vision Mongers by again, David Duchemin. Look out for a review, as these books are essential for any aspiring photographer, even pros. Hopefully soon I’ll take delivery of David Ziser’s new book Captured by the Light.
- My 200mm f2.8 prime lens made a brief showing at Bianca and Travis’s wedding and so far the image quality looks great. I’m keen to get this one out again to try out it’s sharp prime goodness.
- As always keep tuning in to see what’s new at MV Photography and don’t forget you can follow on FaceBook as well (link in the header) to be notified of all the latest news.
New Lens in the Bag: Canon 200mm f2.8 L Prime
March 11, 2010It’s always exciting bringing home a new baby, this time a used Canon 200mm f2.8 L MK1 prime lens. This lens is regarded as one of Canon’s sharpest lenses, probably just sitting behind the 135mm f2 (which I’m sure to obtain one day) and up there in quality with lenses worth six times the amount. I’ll be giving it its first test drive at a wedding next week, but initial testing at the store at f2.8 gave excellent results and a lightning fast focus speed. Not having Image Stabilisation I’ll still need to keep the shutter speeds above 1/200th of a second to shoot hand held. Here are a couple of pictures.
March Catch Up
February 26, 2010- After much drooling, saving and a little help from family, I have recieved my new iMac computer. It is still awaiting some photo editing software and plugins but exploring it’s in-built features has already impressed me. Bye Bye PC. Along with it I bought a Western Digital Studio 1TB Hard Drive to back up the Mac’s internal hard drive with the amazingly simple Time Machine back up software. The next photography job will be entirely processed on the Mac now.
- Don’t forget MV Photography is now on Facebook. Click here to visit my page and become a fan. It’s free and you get all the latest news and photos right on your Facebook Wall (subject to wall settings).
- My last wedding has had the photos delivered to the awesome Nicole and Tim Holmes. I’ll post some more photos from this fun wedding on my blog hopefully later today.
- Next week I’ll be in Hamilton Island with Belinda for some time off. I won’t be available for email enquiries, but I’ll still take any phone enquiries if the need arises. Hope the weather is fine!
- Until next time!