Our Latest Little Cherub

Heres our most recent Cherubs member.

Remember if you have a baby up to 4 months old you can enrol him or her into our Cherubs Club.
You receive 3 free portrait sessions throughout your babies first year. At the end of the year we present you with a folio containing the 3 images.

A wonderful keepsake.

Portrait Session

Photographed a wonderful family on Friday night.

Grandparents plus Mum and Daughter, they were so photogenic.

Here are a couple of images.

And the winner is .............

Congratulations to Charlotte Henderson and her family. Charlotte entered our recent Blog Portrait draw and has won a Portrait Session and a 9"x6" portrait for her family worth £50.00.

Entries are now being taken for our February draw.

To enter just e mail us from our contact page on the main site with Blog Comp in the subject.

Include your name, address and telephone number.

The competition is for a family of 3 or more people.

Good luck and congratulations once again to Charlotte.

New Images Added

New images have been added to the website.

Also a small collage of prints is now on the first page.

We need your feedback. Email us and let us know what you think. The first person to comment on the new images will win a prize.

Good Luck

New Stuff.

Well, New Year has been very very busy for us.
Normally at this tme of year we attend Europes Premier Photography Convention organised by the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, but we have had to give it a miss this year due to work commitments.

I have been working on updating the images on the website so in the next couple of days that will be complete.
We also have been extremely busy with our Cherubs Portraits, its amazing how many babies are born locally and w have had great fun with those.

NEW SERVICES AND IDEAS FOR THE NEW YEAR.

Always trying to keep ahead and offer new services here are a couple of items to watch out for in the near future.

NEW WEBSITES.

Due to the success of cherubs we will be opening a brand new webiste dedicated to the babies. Space on our present site is limited and we want to keep that dedicated to Weddings.

Model Shots

Another new website due to open in the near future is our modelling website. This website will offer Models and Actors Headshots and Portfolio images.

We do need samples for this website though so if there are any budding models out there do give us a call. We can offer you free photography sessions in exchange for you allowing us to use your images on our website.

Remember, Its not the equipment you use ............

A lady was talking to a photographer one day and invited him over for dinner. She asked him to bring some pictures as she loves photography.

On arrival for dinner, she sat him down in the front room to view his images. At the end of it, she said "they are wonderful photographs .. you must have a great camera."

Dinner was ready so they went and ate. It was a great meal with great conversation.

As the photographer was leaving, he thanked her for the meal. He said "it was one of the nicest meals I have ever had. You must have great saucepans"


mmmmmmmmmm food for thought.

Good ol' uncle Frank

Good ol' uncle Frank.

He just bought one of those new-fangled fancy digital cameras. He's always liked photography, and now he's got a camera just like the pro's use. Why don't we just let Uncle Frank take the pictures at our wedding? I'm sure they'll turn out good. I've seen some of the other pictures Uncle Frank has taken. Remember the shots he got at the New Year's party? OK, so Uncle Frank had a little too much to drink... but the pictures still turned out OK. Didn't they? We don't really need a professional, do we?

Hopefully, you enjoyed the little bit of sarcasm in this blog entry. Actually, that is one of the biggest excuses I hear about why people don't want to hire a professional photographer, whether it's for their wedding, or just their latest family portrait. What is the difference between Uncle Frank and a professional photographer any way?

Well, for one thing (and this will seem nit-picky at first), Uncle Frank "takes pictures." A professional photographer creates portraits.
Uncle Frank (hereafter referred to as UF) will sit everyone down, or have them all stand up, side by side, have them look into the camera, say "Cheese," and... *snap*... there's your family photo at your daughter's wedding.
A pro has studied lighting, posing, and the technical aspects of his camera. He knows how to place his subjects in the light to achieve the most flattering look for that person. He also knows how to pose the subject so as to remove weight in the photo, or add weight if it's necessary. If the subject has one eye smaller than the other, he knows how to compensate for it and make the face look balanced. He knows how to place all of the subjects in the frame so that the composition is pleasing to look at. He knows how to adjust his camera to make certain aspects in the frame become more or less pronounced in the photo and, more importantly, WHY that should be done.

These are just a FEW of the reasons. Hey, is UF a member of the Master Photographrs Association? Does UF spend days and weeks studying the craft of photography so he can keep getting better and better? Probably not.

So, the next time you're tempted to let an uncle, cousin, best friend, or someone else create the images of you that you want to show to everyone else, think about the fact that a professional photographer does what he does to make you look your absolute best. Will Frank do that? Just a thought.

Thanks for reading.
Mark

January Competition

This is our first Blog Portrait Competition.

We are offering a FREE family portrait session and a finished 9"x6" portrait.
The competition is open to families of 3 or more people.

How do I enter?

Easy, complete the contact form on our website which is www.markbettsphotography.com

In the sublect line just type BLOG COMP

Include you name , address and telephone number in the main body of the form
The first entry drawn out the hat on the 21st January will win the prize.

Good Luck.

The Secretary

A guy's going on a business trip and he has to take his secretary with him, and she's really crazy about him. The first night on the train, she's in the top bunk and he's in the bottom bunk.
She says, "Mr. Forsythe! Mr. Forsythe! I'm chilly! I think I need a blanket!"
- He says, "Miss Schmitt, how'd you like to pretend you're Mrs. Forsythe for a little while?"
- "I'd like that, Mr. Forsythe!"
- "Then get your own damn blanket!"

Recent Studio Sessions

Here are a few images from recent sessions.


We have been having some fun with our Cherubs babies.


And also the parents.............

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone.

I hope you all had a good Christmas and are looking forward to the new year.

Christmas was very busy for us with family and baby portraits. There are now many happy families with wonderful portraits to cherish.

We were also busy between Christmas and New year with Baby Portraits and a wedding on the 29th of December.

Tanya and David were married at Corby Register office.

It was a cold and blustery day but we still managed to shoot some wonderful images, I have posted a few here below.