If you have been thinking about getting some beautiful portraits of your children taken, here is a great opportunity that could also win you £1,000.00!

We are looking for photogenic children to enter into the prestigious  Fujifilm / MPA Portrait Awards. Sponsored by one of the world’s top imaging companies, Fujifilm and the Master Photographers Association (MPA), we are offering entrants a portrait sitting for only £9.95 – a saving of over £40.00 off our normal price.

We shall select the best image from your shoot and submit it to the competition. If the photograph is chosen as the outright winner of the portrait category, you will win £1,000.00! Runner up prizes are also up for grabs.

To qualify for this great offer, all subjects being photographed must be aged between 6 months – 12 years. Sessions are undertaken by appointment Monday – Friday between 9.00am – 5.00pm.

In 2011, we won this competition for one of our clients – and we were the only studio in the UK to get three portraits into the finals. Could YOU be the next winner?

Remember, portraits of your children make fantastic Mothers Day gifts. To book your shoot and for offer details, call us now on 01279 843050. Spaces are strictly limited and are allocated on a first-come basis.

This offer is subject to terms and conditions, details upon request.

Here’s my latest visitor to the studio.  Little Finlay (3) told me he loves the colour red. If he wants the colour red in his portrait – he can have it! We had a lovely shoot and he had me and his mum laughing all the way through it!

Just a little update on my availability. Things are now starting to get busy. If you would like to take advantage of my latest offer – namely a portrait shoot for £25.00 (normal price £50.00) and a complimentary print worth £49.00, I have a few weekday slots left, but very limited availability for shoots on Saturday mornings. This offer applies to shoots that take place by 12th November, so call me now on 01279 843050 for offer details and to reserve your space.

Photographs: Copyright: © David Calvert 2011. Copying forbidden by law.

There’s one type of portraiture that I really love doing. I sit someone down, I don’t pose them, I don’t ask them to smile… I just photograph what I see. This is what I did today with 3 year old Millie.  She came in with a great looking hat, so I did a lovely shot of Millie… just being Millie.

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 Their daughter Dora (shown above) is no stranger to me. Indeed, one of my past shots of her and her dad won me two national awards back in 2007. The winning photograph is shown below.

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Here’s a publicity headshot I did for 16 year old actress Olivia. She’s just signed to a new agent and she popped into my studio this morning with her mum to update her photographs. I think she looks fabulous in this shot.

Couple of things to tell you…

Firstly, I’ve had a few clients ask me when will the results to the Kodak Portrait Awards promo be announced. According to the competition sponsors, finalists will be notified by mid September and the outright winner will be announced at our annual industry awards bash on 17th October. If any of my entrants have been successful, I will contact them straight away. A big thank you to everyone who entered – fingers crossed that one of my photos gets through!

Finally, apart from a couple of jobs, I’m taking a break for the next week or so. I was supposed to have taken the last 10 days off, but because of the high demand for my services, I postponed my break. I will be back in the office on 6th September. However, I will be regularly checking for phone messages and emails – and where necessary I will get in touch with you.

Would you like to see more of our work? Visit our website here. 
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Pictured above are Sam(8) and Ella (4). We had a great shoot of which I did two totally contrasting looks. The first set-up is as shown above, but we also did some some great dark and moody shots too. Despite it being sunny and hot outside - and Sam missing the England match, both of them worked really hard.

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Apart from family portraits, I regularly get asked to take publicity portraits for actors, dancers – or indeed anyone in the performing arts. With these sort of shots, you can’t really get that creative, as the shots are intended to be given to casting directors and agents to simply show what someone looks like.

Here are couple of shots I’ve done recently. First up is Rebecca who is an up-and-coming actress and secondly we have young Lauren, who is hoping to persue a career as a dancer.

If you are an actor looking for a publicity portrait for Spotlight, or a dancer wanting some publicity photographs for casting agents, call me now on 01279 843050. You can view more samples of my model, actor and dancer photography here. 

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Just bought a new pink background and I found an excellent subject to use it on. This is Madeline (2) who came in as part of my Kodak Awards promotion, where you get the chance of winning £1,000.00. She was a lovely little girl. We had a great chat about her cats and she told me about all the naughty things they get up to… a bit like my cats then!

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Its beautifully warm and sunny outside – and I’m stuck inside catching up with loads of work!

Here are a few shots I’ve done in the last week… Firstly we have Lee (5) who was extremely good during his portrait shoot, and next we have his little brother - 7 month old Alfie. Alfie’s mum was telling me that he is a bit of a serious baby - as he often didn’t smile in photographs, but we got lucky and I caught a lovely smile. Finally, we have a classical style portrait of the beautiful Tasha, who came in with her family for a portrait shoot. It was quite a long session, but very enjoyable and productive.

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This is Daisy(10) who was an absolute delight to photograph. I love this shot. It has a light, fresh delicate feel to it. Thanks must also go to Denise who brought Daisy to the studio and acted as ‘hair stylist’!

Daisy came in as part of our fantastic promotion we are doing - where you have the chance of winning £1,000.00!

We are looking to enter beautiful, photogenic children into one of the UK’s most prestigious photographic competitions – the Kodak Portrait Awards. Sponsored by one of the world’s top imaging companies; Kodak and the Master Photographers Association (MPA), we are offering entrants a FREE studio portrait sitting worth £50.00!

We shall select the best image from the sitting and submit it to the Kodak Portrait Awards. If the photograph is chosen as the outright winner of the portrait category, you will win £1,000.00! There are also some great runner-up prizes of Kodak digital cameras too!

To qualify for this great offer, all subjects being photographed must be aged between 0-12 years.

As part of the offer, we will pay the entry fee to the competition. The proceeds of which will be donated by the MPA to the sponsors nominated charity, PACE – a fantastic organisation that helps children with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy.

Spaces are strictly limited, so book your sitting by calling us now on 01279 843050.

Offer subject to terms and conditions, details available upon request.