Archive for January, 2010

Buy a photo session gift voucher online

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, online ordering for gift vouchers has been enabled on my website. You can now order a gift voucher and pay securely by credit card in one simple step.

To find out more, check out the Valentine’s Day offerings and buy a photo session gift voucher.

The scammers are alive and well – and now they are on facebook

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

A modelling scam warning

Last night I received an e-mail from Elaine in the United States that somebody calling himself Hugh Pederson was offering modelling jobs on Facebook. He claimed that he worked for me and said something about the “Marie Claire Face of the Year”.

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A celebration of the mature body

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

A preview of my photo session with model Oriental Silk, who is originally from Japan and now lives in Britain. Oriental Silk is 51 years old and also runs events around Japanese culture.

One motto, which is important in my work, is that everybody is beautiful, it just depends on how you look at them. The photographs in this series demonstrate, I believe, that the older, more mature body can still be beautiful and desirable.

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Modelling opportunities February 2010

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I am looking for female models aged mid to late 20s to around 40 for a series of clothed, fashion-style portraits for my own self-promotion (portfolio, etc.).

I am looking for real women – previous modelling experience is not necessarily required. There are no minimum height restrictions but you do need to be healthy looking and reasonably slim.

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Snow photographs

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

I am told that the Finnish have forty-odd words for snow, from the simple lumi (snow) to the precise tuisku (snow shower with strong wind) and tykky (large chunks of snow, especially when frozen onto trees).
(Source and Jane, whom I used to know a long time ago and who is half Finnish.)

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Nikon’s improved Auto White Balance

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

About a week ago Nikon released firmware update 1.02 for the D700, a camera, which I am using. One of the improvements mentioned was auto white balance performance.

I did a few test shots this morning in my snowy garden with auto white balance on the P setting. There are various ways of creating a reference image for white (or rather grey) balancing. I am using a QP Card, which is a simple and accurate method.

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Three romantic gift ideas for Valentine’s Day

Friday, January 8th, 2010

14th February is Valentine’s Day. Do something romantic with these three Valentines gift ideas:

~1~ Book yourself in for a photo session before Valentine’s Day and surprise your Valentine with a set of hand-crafted prints or a bound photobook. If you have a wicked side, give him an erotic portrait of yourself as a jigsaw puzzle and watch him struggle.

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Where are the children?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Snow is so rare in Britain, at least in the south, that it is always a welcome and exciting diversion to me.

At the first sight of a single snowflake, the country falls into deep chaos. To the media and quite possibly a large proportion of the population, the prospect of a little disruption seems like the end of life as we know it. It is not just that snow is exciting – you simply cannot ignore it.

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Nikon D700 firmware 1.02 update

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Nikon Europe has today released firmware update 1.02 for the D700 digital SLR camera.

In this update auto white balance performance has been improved, support for 64Gb memory cards added and some other camera settings have been modified.

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Spring/Summer 2010 price list

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The new year starts with a new price list with even more value for money and a new package for only £65.

The VAT rate may have gone back to normal and a post-election Government may introduce an even higher rate of VAT later this year. At Wolf Kettler Photographer, there are no VAT-related price increases.

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New modelling opportunities

Monday, January 4th, 2010

For a series of photographs for my portfolio I need female models aged between late 20s and 40.

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