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Back To [the new] Normal

Cork City Social Distancing

As Clients and Suppliers return work next week, I’m looking forward to getting back to the office and starting to work out what the New Normal is.

I’ve had commercial clients cancel, PR work postponed and there have been no Communions and few Confirmations this year.

I have some print orders to fulfill from work shot before the Lock Down and I can get those out to people now that the Framer is back at work. Socially Distanced, safe collections are possible.

But can I conduct a safe, socially distanced photo shoot?

There’s no reason why Product Photography shouldn’t go ahead. So anyone looking for product for their new (or expanded or renewed) web store can get those done.

In general people look better further away and 2m is probably about right for a good headshot. So anyone looking for a profile image is welcome to get in touch. Assuming that their lock-down haircut is presentable!

And in particular the kind of feature session that shows how your business is adapting to trading in the current environment is a really good idea.

A formal family photo shoot is probably going to go OK but I specialise in the informal, intimate portrait and that’s going to be difficult. Especially with younger kids who tend to almost adopt me by the end of the shoot.

I think the biggest hit for most photographer right now is the loss of the Wedding Business. But if you’re planning something more intimate within the new restrictions, feel free to talk to me about how I can be part of that. We can tailor coverage and delivery appropriately to suit your plans

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Lock Down

Social Distancing

I hope everyone is keeping safe and well at this challenging time.

The lock down has been hard for everyone in our own way. Thankfully we’re all OK and in many ways I’m enjoying this unique time with my family.

I decided to turn the 2km restriction into a photo challenge: interesting photos (almost) every day taken from within my 2km radius.

The results are on my Facebook Page.

Many ended up coming from my own back garden. It’s probably the most productive time in our garden just because of the range of plants we have that flower in Spring: starting with the jolly primroses, wild garlic and the apple blossom.

Love the dandelions too. A weed is just a flower in the wrong place.

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Headshot Heaven

It’s that time again when we are graced with an infection of politician’s headshots all over our streets.  Increasingly the general public see this as an invasion. Litter. They make a mess of our streets, obstruct our view of traffic and then have to be disposed of after just three weeks.

But they endure for one very good reason: people engage with images of other people.  We look, we familiarise and the candidates hope that we start to like them.

It’s a powerful process (and one that’s pretty unique to Irish Political Campaigning).

So are you harnessing this power for your business?  You are the most unique part of your business. Your business will thrive or fail based on your ability to give your customer what they want and they need to be able to trust you on that.

You need a good profile image.  Whether it’s on your website, your LinkedIn or Facebook or whatever, people engage with a face on a screen and they will make decisions about you and your business based on that.

I can help you with that.

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Updated Photography Course

My Beginners Photography Course is running again as part of the Ashton Adult Education Programme.

This term we’ve extended each class to a full 2 hours to allow more hands-on practical work.   There will be more time on practice and I’m also offering the chance to do a practical workshop outside the course.

Otherwise the course structure is the same – spread over 8 weeks and it covers a wide range of image-making with whatever camera you’re have available to use.

More info and sign up at https://ashton.ie/adult-education/

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More Photography Classes

After the success of the first running of my Photography Class in Ashton, it will be running again in the spring term – commencing 28th Jan 2019.

The course is more focused on images than cameras and aims to help people take better photographs with whatever camera they have in their hand: mobile phone, compact camera or something more fancy.

We’ll cover basic techniques that will improve your photography but much of the course if aimed teaching you to look at images more critically and learning to create stronger images yourself.

Info and sign up is on the Ashton Adult Ed web site https://ashton.ie/adult-education/

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GDPR and me

“Anyone know of a good GDPR consultant?”

“I do but I can’t give you her details”

Aparently GDPR is a big deal.  A significant piece of new legislation that gives us new rights over our own information.  Sounds good to me.  I also quite like the fact that I’m being automatically opted out of all those emails I don’t remember asking for and delete anyway.

As far as Rob Lamb Photography is concerned:

  • The only client information we keep is your contact details: Names, Phone Numbers, email addresses, location of the session
  • Payments are logged in our accounts system but we do not retain card or account details.
  • We use a mixture of paper and electronic storage for this information.  We maintain secure access to our email system.  All other records are not accessible via the internet.
  • We do not share this information with any third parties
  • We do not send unsolicited messages via email or otherwise
  • We retain this information for as long as you are an active client.  For most clients, they are active while we retain their images on file.  For most clients we retain their images indefinitely as part of our archival service (which allows people to contact us looking for their images indefinitely)
  • If a client wishes to be ‘forgotten’ then we will comply with this request and delete their contact details and their images from the Archive.  Please contact us via email at rob@roblambphoto.com to make such a request
  • “Client Data” does not include images.  Images are our Intelliectual Property and we retain copyright in all circumstances.

 

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First Communions 2018 – Studio Sesssions Available

We are delighted to announce that we will again be running our very popular Communion Mini Sessions on the following days:

  • Saturday 21st April 2018
  • Saturday 28th April 2018
  • Saturday 26th May 2018

This year the sessions will be held in the Scout Hall, next to Ballinlough Community Centre and the Tennis Club.

We have some bookings already but there is still availability on all these days.

The sessions will run as previous years with each family being allocated a 15 minute timeslot with sessions running from around 12:30 onwards.

Call us now on 087 683 8511 to make a booking.

More info on Communion Sessions and Packages are available at https://roblambphoto.com/?page_id=789

 

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A New Home

From today, 11th September 2017, Rob Lamb Photography has moved to

Unit G6
Enterprise House
Marina Commercial Park
Centre Park Road
Cork

We’re waiting to get the old landline number transferred so for now the best way to contact me is on the mobile

087 683 8511   or

rob@roblambphoto.com    as usual.

Still a bit to do on the new place to find homes for everything and hang a few pictures but I’ll be taking appointments and viewings here as before.

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Irish Youth Dance Festival 2017

I had the pleasure of photographing the New Moon Dance company at the Irish Youth Dance Festival in Dun Laoghaire, last weekend.  As usual Tina’s dancers were amazing.

It was the only (brief) rehearsal they got on the stage and it was during lighting setup so let’s just say there wasn’t a lot of time – or light – and what light there was got better as the lighting guy worked things out.