My photos - When im not in the mud in a jcb.....

[GB_Groundworks]

[henpecked]

Wow! :0

Excellent composition .Giles. You did the mountain one with long exposure?

[GB_Groundworks]

this image ^ got published on a very hard to get on website and got lots of love http://1x.com/#!/photo/47032

[GB_Groundworks]

my lovely new g/f's dog and my boy





















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this won an online competition






and last one of 1200 from a shoot with my ex vicki

the set from these which is much to risque for here will be on my website when i find the time to make one.

also might have got my first paid job out of this one, quoted £350 a day for myself which if i can pull this off will be good fun as its naked ladies



more to follow....

[cookiewales]

top work there giles:D

[Carberry]

also might have got my first paid job out of this one, quoted £350 a day for myself which if i can pull this off will be good fun as its naked ladies

That's where the real money is at. My friend paid £1000 for a wedding photographer for the day, I told him he was an idiot and that he should have spent that money on a good camera and I could have taken a few thousand photos for him, could have filled an album with the good ones and gotten rid of (or laughed at) the crap ones.

I get a lot of money getting naked for women too, the work isn't regular but it is easy, fun and obscene money. If I can find someone decent enough to make me a few websites, who isn't trying to rip me off or blow smoke up my ass I'll be happy and maybe get more business.

As usual. nice photos. Are any of them touched in photoshop?

[GB_Groundworks]

No offence but if he had bought a camera and you'd taken a 1000 pics he would have been dissspointed, I've done 5 weddings now starting with the first one just snapping away upto most recent that looked as good if not better than some pros. You hopefully only have one wedding day...

Some have been photoshopped namely the toy story and the selective desaturation on Vicki pic.

Going to start selling prints online as well

[Carberry]

No offence but if he had bought a camera and you'd taken a 1000 pics he would have been dissspointed, I've done 5 weddings now starting with the first one just snapping away upto most recent that looked as good if not better than some pros. You hopefully only have one wedding day...

Some have been photoshopped namely the toy story and the selective desaturation on Vicki pic.

Going to start selling prints online as well

None taken
I'm not saying taking good photos is easy and that anyone can do it, I'm just saying that if you take enough photos one of them will be good, law of large numbers and all that. Nobody would risk the wrath of their wife to be on their wedding day though which is why photographers, and anyone involved in weddings for that matter, get away with charging exorbitant prices.

[GB_Groundworks]

i used to think that, what you paid 2000 for a wedding photographer pffft ffs etc until i actually did one for free for a mate, shit! they are hard pressured work, much much more fun going gettig hammered and having a fumble with a bridesmaid than running rd with £10K worth of camera gear,

capital investment 10-50k on camera gear computers and lighting backdrops etc, insurance, web site etc etc

so youve got the meet and greet with clients 1 day

pre weddign shoot 1 day

wedding day 1 long day 8am - 12-2am etc so a big day

editting the 200 or so choices from your 2000 good shots, maybe deleted 1000 on top, proper editing for print so 20 mins a photo minimum talking 3-5 days depending on how good you are

1 150 photo album - £400 ish so it

so you are talking 5-6 days ish then theres all tho other photo to edit for guest etc to maybe buy prints of, archive etc and deal with client hassle so its actually not that bad price.

im doing another wedding soon for a good friend, for free like a muppet, im also arranging the porta loos and a generator as its in a large tepee in the woods



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[DNgroundworks]

I dont know how you did some of them pic Giles but they are very impressive.

That one that got you on the hard to get on website is awesome, sorta scary looking at it if you know what i mean, what is it? Hydro electric thingy?

[lutonlagerlout]

i used to think that, what you paid 2000 for a wedding photographer pffft ffs etc until i actually did one for free for a mate, shit! they are hard pressured work, much much more fun going gettig hammered and having a fumble with a bridesmaid than running rd with £10K worth of camera gear,

capital investment 10-50k on camera gear computers and lighting backdrops etc, insurance, web site etc etc

so youve got the meet and greet with clients 1 day

pre weddign shoot 1 day

wedding day 1 long day 8am - 12-2am etc so a big day

editting the 200 or so choices from your 2000 good shots, maybe deleted 1000 on top, proper editing for print so 20 mins a photo minimum talking 3-5 days depending on how good you are

1 150 photo album - £400 ish so it

so you are talking 5-6 days ish then theres all tho other photo to edit for guest etc to maybe buy prints of, archive etc and deal with client hassle so its actually not that bad price.

im doing another wedding soon for a good friend, for free like a muppet, im also arranging the porta loos and a generator as its in a large tepee in the woods

starting to sound like a wedding photographer too
with digital photography its a lot easier than it was
I paid £750 12 years ago and was on the whole unimpressed
your shots are a lot better
we wanted a lot of unstaged shots,and he wanted staged
caused a bit of a rift on teh day TBH
LLL
beautiful stuff giles

[DNgroundworks]

Yep very nice stuff, took the dog on a 10mile walk yesterday up in the fells, stunning place and miles from anyone

[GB_Groundworks]

I dont know how you did some of them pic Giles but they are very impressive.

That one that got you on the hard to get on website is awesome, sorta scary looking at it if you know what i mean, what is it? Hydro electric thingy?

its a bellmouth spillway, stops the reservoir overflowing. one on each side of the dam, they go through the dam and discharge into the river, they are 23 meters across. you wouldnt want to get sucked down one hehe.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberprop/sets/72157628547838965/