“Flossy” makes her first fashion appearance

We recently worked with Hayley from Hayley Jayne Designs, Hayley was using an online fashion site to sell her flower girl, and bridesmaid outfits all handmade bespoke dresses.  She mentioned sales was down and asked if we could improve the images as they are the first point of sale on the site.

After taking a look at the site and then having a further chat about the look and feel for the images, we came up with a few ideas and introduced “Flossy” the latest member of Hayley’s team, a 3ft high mannequin, perfect size for the dresses we needed to shoot.

When it come to showing the world what you’re good at, it is best to show everyone in a slightly different way to how everyone else is doing it.  We decided not to go for white backdrop but an expensive rich looking “dark Cordovan”….ok ok its brown but brown doesn’t sound as classy

On the afternoon of the shoot Hayley was onsite to dress Flossy and to give input in to the shoot.  Shooting the images is not what takes up the time; it’s all the preparation before each shoot making sure the garments are as perfect as they can be.  We shot each dress from all different angles and close up of special details each of the dresses had.

The 3 hour shoot flew by, and after a little tweaking the images were ready to download that evening.

Since going live with the new images interest in the same dresses has improved over 55% in the first week!   We are looking forward to working with Hayley again soon shooting all her new designs coming up in the pipeline.  You can view and purchase items from Hayley Jayne Designs from the following site.  ETSY : Hayley Jayne Designs

Looking to improve your online sales with good professional images?   At £40ph for stock photography it’s affordable and will help market your company to a high standard.

Visit our commercial pages and contact us for more details.     DK Capture Commercial

Perfection is achieved when there is no need to add anything else

Sometimes keeping an advert simple with a good quality image can tell you more than lots of fussy words.

Take a look at our website to see how DK Capture  Photography can help market your business.

Sometimes it’s good to get out of the studio !

Portraits are not all about close up head shots….

What’s the new black…Ive lost track on what’s trendy nowadays!

When DK Capture have portrait clients in I always have a chat about what type of look they would like…99% don’t know and leave it to me.

We also shoot on High Key first as it’s what people are used to seeing, but after about 30mins I tend to go all creative and find most people like the results.

Is the brilliant white background going out of fashion or will it always be a favourite?

 

You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams

Photography is Marketing..its not some grey haired old bloke with a tripod eating sandwiches out of tin foil boring people to death about FStops and then charging a small mortgage to allow you to use his images…things have changed!

Looking at the two images below,  the first I found on the web, whilst looking for a description on the process of dried apricots for a design we are doing. The second is a shot DK Capture did for a food company looking to market their product further.

If you sold dried fruit which one is going to sell your company?

If your investing your hard earned money into a company you love and breath, why wouldn’t you invest in marketing your company properly?

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A funny comment I saw on FB today….

“wow you take nice photos… Of course that great camera helps”

“yes and you make nice cakes, of course you have a wonderful mixing bowl”

Bob Hoskins “It’s good to talk” BT Advert 1990

We have all seen “The Hangover” maybe some of us have seen “The Hangover 2″ (not as good but still funny)  but what is the best bit about the film ?

Thats right the fun party photos at the end !

Well, I cant promise all the action from the movies but we do have plenty of fun and  having booked in 3 party shoots last week for Hen and Birthday shoots ,  DK Capture must be doing something right.

I always ask how did they hear about our party shoots….because we don’t advertise them !

Friends of friends and word of mouth…do a good job people talk about it and they become sales people for your company.

 

Remember… Never too old to “Party Hard” !

 

 

Put the kettle on: The number one rule on product photography

When it comes to product photography, clients always ask you for your thoughts and ideas…99% of clients already have an idea but it’s always good to pop the kettle on and have a chat about what the overall outcome from the shoot will be….

You never know what goes on in these marketing meetings!