Brothers Boot Camp

One of the DJ's I photograph for at the 'sweatbox events' is also every into fitness and his brother is a trained personal trainer and a new gym recently opened in my home town of Swadlincote.


Mikey Dunne, the DJ, is also an event organizer and has teamed up with his brother to start up a fitness Bootcamp called 'brothers bootcamp'.

Mikey asked me to come along on sunday. The free trial bootcamp an alot d photograph the events of the day...


I wasn't getting paid for it but I he assured me there would be of work would follow after this...


It was such a fun day! every unexpected. 
I met Mikey at 9 am at Rosliston Forestry Center and I was shown the Lodges where they all ate and relaxed and gave feedback In.
I photographed the team during the whole day ...

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Confusion with Clients

When my manager asked me to photograph Kirk the night he was arranged to come. My head starting filling with questions I needed answering such as where about was Kirk going to be in the club so I could prepare for how the lighting was going to be.... and what size he wanted the images printed and did he want the clubs logo going on the photos...

One of the problems that occurred is my manager forwarded me an email that was supposed to have the logo attached to but there was nothing attracted :s ...

so I emailed him back saying there was no gif film of the logo attracted and for him to resend it again.

I was panicking a little because it was a few days before the night and I had not checked the logo.

On the night when I arrived at the club I asked my manager and he was noticed the email had no attachment and resend one with the logo attached. 

However when I got home I downloaded the logo I couldn't use it on photoshop. It was locked and I struggled to unlock it... I google it but nothing helped. I was stuck and only had a few hours to edit the images with the logo. I then remembered a knew someone who is a qualified graphic designer so I messaged him and he said he didn't know why the logo wouldn't work, he seemed to think the logo attached on the email was saved and sent as the wrong file. 

I told him the club name that needed to logo on the photographs and he found one of the posters on a facebook site and totally re did the logo for me. IDENTICAL to original logo !

Other life saver!!!! 

This is an other problem that I hope will not happen again because I will demand the logo at least a week before the event and make sure its the correct file that compatible with photoshop. 

I feel like that day it was about WHO YOU KNOW, NOT WHAT YOU KNOW!

WHEN IT ALL WENT WRONG ! Photographing Kirk Norcross

I clicked 'delete all' at the end of the shoot

I thought 'kill me now'.

Mr google saved my life and calmed me down, i read that you can recover lost images using some software you can download! ..................

I found some free software I downloaded for free but after reading some reviews on recovering photos I was a bit unsure on whether I could trust it. I just found out I can get the images back I didn't want to use a dodgy software and loose them totally forever.....

It was saturday the morning after the shoot and I decided I would go up to the studio where I was supposed to be meeting my tutor steve and some other students to check out this hire studio that had recently been introduced to us.. When I got there I told Steve what had happened and he seem to think that it could be done but wasn't 100% sure.

One of the city and guilds students, Eric, told me that he was done something similar in the past and he knew a man who had some software that would recover everything that had been shot on the memory card. He rand this man up (Pete) and told him the situation I was in and how desperate I was to recover these images. He said I was welcome to come round with my memory card and he'd have a look for me.

So I left the studio and away I went to find Pete, my life saver, the computer wizard, Eric's mate to see what he could do :)
The process usually takes about half an hour to recover all the images, however it took an hour and a half due to the amount of photos found on the card. Because the memory card was the colleges, you can image how many times it had been used and how many photos had been took on it since it had been purchases!!! OVER 4000!!!

Because I had work in the afternoon Pete kindly finished the process for me and changed the images from raw into jpeg because I he knew I was printing them off at Jessops  after (they only print jpeg images) he sifted out all my photos took from the night and put them on a dvd for me.

He didn't want any money for doing this and after a small argument £30 was forced on him for his time and effort. MANS A LEDGEND!  ...

Here are the images I printed for the club, Each photo was 7x5 and had the logo on the bottom right hand corner... which took me a while because I'm not sure on how to do it as a whole on all my photos without doing it individually. I think you have to save an action on photoshop them upload all the photos at once... not too sure, but ill be looking into that this week for future reference.

I've never done a job like this before with so much pressure. Each girl paid £30 to 'meet and greet' Kirk Norcross. They had a photograph champaign and about 30 seconds talking to the star. Due to the amount of time the club had kirk for and the amount of girls wanted to meet him I had to literally take one photo and on the next girl.. This caused a few problems because I had no time to check the photo for such things like there eyes being closed or the composition....

I have learnt ALOT of things from this shoot.

1) to NEVER EVER press delete on the camera, even if you are only deleting one photograph, you are a click away from loosing them all - save the deleting until ALL photos are backed up.

---- More professional photographers with bigger budgets would have a laptop downloading images immediately after the photograph is taken.. and a team checking the photographs for imperfect images.

2) Don't panic, keep calm and there's always a way out (if you have the right attitude and contracts)

3) Always have a back up camera, spare batteries, tripod(never know if its going to come into use)
Always prepare for the worst. You camera probably wont stop working, BUT WHAT IF IT DOES?

4) I WISH I GAVE KIRK MY PHONE NUMBER!