Complete prices start from just £19.99.

Memorial Photo

Our Memorial Photos are combined from your photo and any details you wish to add.

All we need is your photo and the details you wish to add.

The cost to set up is just £9.99 and can be printed or emailed as required.

A popular print size for the Memorial photois 10×8 and this is just £4.

Have you got any Wedding Photos? Would you like them to be Professionally edited? Chances are we can get them looking just as good as a professional shot.

Maybe you took your own wedding photos? or had a friend do them for you? we’ll, with todays technology and our years of expertiese of taking professional photographs and working with other peoples photos we can give you photos the “Professional Touch”.

Professional Photographers don’t showcase their photos direct from the camera  – they do lots of little tweaks and edits to get that shot to look the way it does. take a look at the example below :

Before. This is the original image direct from the camera

With our Professional photo editing service we take that original shot and turn it into this:

After. The finished image following our professional editing service.

We charge around just £10 to do an edit of this type, including:

• Cropping
• Toning Enhancements
• Black and White Conversion
• Minor airbrushing
• Sharpening

All you need to do is just email in a wedding photo or any photo! and we’ll asses and email you with the optiona and a complete price breakdown.

If your happy with the options, we’ll complete a proof image for you to approve. once your happy with the image complete payment and we’ll email, or upload your photo to our site for you to download.

Prints are also available if you need them .

A 10×8 print from our Epson r2880 printer would be £4.

Especially when we get great photos like this of our own kids! well 3 are ours and the baby is our Nephew Oliver.

Usually I don’t like to do our own kids in the studio cos’ they just play up! as all kids do for their parents  but today was great and we got some good shots.

“What helps lot’s is being relaxed and letting them do what they want to, to a certain extent!”

If your going to get good shots of babies and children you need to be patient and sometimes VERY patient! Being Patient always pay’s off in the end and shows in the shots.
The last thing you want to do is rush the session and try to make the children smile! how we do it is to involve the parents, grandparents, uncles aunties or whoever is there at the time. Capturing the children naturally is the key to a successful session, yes big smiles are great but sometimes the natural photos are more revealing and can capture the personality and make a much more captivating portrait.

Call Geoff or Helen now and book your £30 portrait before your little ones get much bigger ……
Studio 01942 725847 – Mobile 07920091100

]]> http://www.creativephotoshop.co.uk/2010/02/18/portrait-photography-for-babies-and-children/feed/ 0 http://www.creativephotoshop.co.uk/2010/02/16/urban-portraits-getting-out-of-the-studio/ http://www.creativephotoshop.co.uk/2010/02/16/urban-portraits-getting-out-of-the-studio/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:19:25 +0000 Geoff http://www.creativephotoshop.co.uk/?p=158

We’re moving out of the studio and onto the streets.

Photography is changing in many ways! not just the quality and technicle developments but in styles and tastes.
Yes you can get great photos in the studio – we do them all the time, but if your looking for something a little different give some thought to our Urban Portraits.

Instead of just being confined to the studio we now go urban and shoot portraits on location.

This gives great scope to more natural shots and combining the natural enviroment can give some great effects.

We’ll get more info online soon…..

Once you’ve watched the video you can download the original photos on the links below and play around with them your self.

How To Take Great Photos of Snow – From Geoff Beattie

If you would like me to email you when I put more tip’s online  just put your name and email in the box below.

I’m going to put the photos up on my Flickr account soon – the link will be here when they are up.
(P.S.If you subscribe in the box on the right, I’ll email you when they are up! )

I’m working on a couple of projects at the moment.The main one being my  “DiY Wedding Photo guide 2.0″. With the UK Wedding season coming up there will be 10,000’s of people taking photo’s at wedding’s this year, and many Brides and Grooms are not hiring a Professional Wedding photographer due to a number of factors: Cost is probably a big issue at the moment. but also with the quality and ease of use of the digital cameras on the market at the moment the image quality is often equal to that produced by some professionals, so all that remains is a little know how to get those photos looking professional and you’ll end with some great photos. Find out more here on my DiY Wedding Photo Guide site.

I Came across this photoshop editing video tutorial a while ago an found his videos really simple and effective.

Scott Voelker - Photographer

In this video he goes through the process of how to make a cover up.
He uses a studio portrait in the example but the same method can be used in many other situations too.

Take a look at this video from fellow photographer Scott Voelker
this is a very simple and effective technique that is easy to follow.

I used a similar technique to get the photo of Scott for this post from the photo I had of him.

You can see the original shot here, and from it I got the photo of Scott by covering up lisa – Horry Lisa! no offense

Removing Lisa to just get a shot of Scott

So you can see using this method you can apply it to different shots

If you liked that video you can see some more from Scott by Clicking here

Helen’s Reborn Baby doll’s are all individually made by Helen, If you have ever seen a reborn baby doll you’ll know just how much time and skill goes into making them as life-like as possible.

Reborn dolls are highly collectible, partly because each reborn artist will create a doll different from the next one. The detail on the dolls really is incredible, when Helen is creating her dolls some of the fine detail includes, milk spots, veins, natural skin blemishes, birth marks, blush marks, realistic runny noses, wet eyes and tears. Some of Helen’s latest dolls are made with “Body Plates” this includes boy and girl bit’s and dimples on the bum! her prices are very affordable and start from as little as £80, some the more detailed doll’s and limited edition dolls from the leading Sculpting Artists can cost anywhere from £250 upwards.  Please contact Helen at the Studio on 01942 725847 or 07920090025 for more info.
www.helensrebornbabydolls.com

The prize includes a full portrait session and wal size print with a total value of £100, all we ask is you complete your name and email in the box below to enter and we’ll enter you into the draw. there is no cash alternative – it’s just for a complete portrait session and print with a value of £100 to be used by the winner or friends, family of the winner.
Once you enter the draw we’ll email you from time to time about other offers and prize draws at the studio you may find useful, but if you wish to no longer receive these offers you can just click on the link at the end of any of our email and you’ll not receive any more from us.
Good Luck

Geoff & Helen – Creative Photo Shop.

Photo Restoration

come out better than the original photo!

The process we use to restore old or damaged photos is all digital, this means that your original photo is never really touched or at risk of any further damage as we scan your photo in to the system to make a high resolution image file, then we digitally retouch the image and then make a new print from that image – much like you get prints from your digital camera.

Our service starts at just £5 for a basic clean up of an image, this would generally include:

• Improve pale and faded images
• Improve the colour
• Improve the sharpness
• hange the tone from colour into Black and White

Our more advanced service includes:

• Repairing cracks
• Creases
• Tears
• Rebuilding missing pieces
• Removing and adding people
• Changing backgrounds
• Removing objects from within the image

Once the work is complete we show you the completed image for approval, then we can make further adjustments if required before making your print.

Initially we will give you a free quote to do the required work then if you decide to go ahead, it can take from a few minutes to a couple of days to complete for you.
Please either email in your photo to the studio, or bring it in and we;ll see what we can do for you.