Portrait Photography – Rob Lamb Photography

October 7, 2013October 7, 2013

Autumn Family Portrait Special Offer

€50 Session Fee + 10% Discount on Prints and Storyboards

It’s a perfect time to get out and have a Family Photo Session: autumn is here and the woods look fantastic; it’s bright and still warm outside.

This October we’re offering special discounted rates on all session booked from now until the end of the mid-term break.

For €50 you get a full Family Session anywhere in the Cork. We’re also offering a 10% Discount on the Gallery Price list for print orders placed at your viewing after your session.

There are many spots around Cork for great Outdoor Family Photo Sessions. We’ve worked in Currabinny, Rostellan, Fota Gardens and even more suburban locations like Fitzgerald’s Park and the Japanese Gardens. All we need is somewhere you can be free to relax and play and we can capture your family at their best.

You might also consider some of our great local beaches at this time of year: Myrtleville, Rocky Bay, Garretstown or the Dock Beach have all worked well for us in the past.

But if you have your own favourite spot that your family know well then why not get photos taken there.

Weekend sessions are available but with limited availability. The promotion runs through to the end of the October Mid-term break so you can also schedule a session while the kids are off school (3rd November).

Terms and Conditions Apply:

You have to be prepared to go out there and have fun
The Session Rate of €50 applies to family sessions booked between 4th October 2013 and 3rd November 2013
The 10% Discount applies to the normal Gallery Price List and is only applied to products ordered at your viewing session (subsequent orders will be priced at our normal rates)
In the unlikely event that the weather isn’t great the day of your session then we’ll re-schedule (I don’t mind getting a bit wet but there are some days when it’s just not going to happen). The offer will still apply to rescheduled sessions even if they have to get taken after 3rd November.
All work is covered by our normal terms and conditions of business

March 9, 2012March 9, 2012

Portraits

One of my favourite quotes relating to what I do has to be:

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses. – Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White

This comment resonated with me before I really understood it.

The more I look and try to understand truely great photographs and how they were created, the more I see that the level of understanding in your subject is key.

The difference between a ‘Portrait’ and a simple picture is that a Portrait captures an essence of character and in so doing stimulates an emotional response in the viewer – whether it’s an empathy or a more negative reaction.

Generating that response, creating a rappor and engaging your subject creating a Portrait requires more than just camera skills. In fact many of the greats of portraiture weren’t great camera operators but their personalities and creative vision allowed them to create some astonishing portraits.

And I don’t think that this is limited to portraiture. Looking at Landscape work and stuff like Thom Hogan’s wildlife courses and many other fields it’s clear that a fundamental understanding of your subject and how it tends to behave gives you an advantage in being in the right place at the right time in good light to capture that decisive moment.

So, I’ll add a more recent quote from Thom: ‘Frankly, planning, preparation, and patience tend to gain me more than what the camera makers are gaining in their latest tweaks.’

December 22, 2010

The Model Scouts

RTÉ’s ‘The Model Scouts’ finished last night. The adults have been addicted in our house: the Mrs for the Fashion and the Model thing, me for all the Photographers featured.

I love seeing other Photographers work – I always learn something from them one way or another.

Lasting impressions? We’re both very impressed with IMG for starters.

And there were few surprises in the girls who did well or how hard they found it.

I thought it showed very well how personality and engagement are just as important – more important in fact – than good looks.

Which of course is good news for all of us! Photography is really about capturing and evoking emotion and being pretty doesn’t get you all they way there.

Working with models is very different from photographing ‘normal’ people: it is the model’s job to give a photographer what they want. It was interesting to hear the feedback from the photographers in the programme discussing which girls were ‘harder to work with’.

Most ordinary people just do what they do – many in fact feel very uncomfortable being photographed to start with and it is my job to make it as relaxing and ‘normal’ as possible in order to get the best photograph of them that I can.

January is the start of ‘seminar season’ for photographers. Traditionally a quiet time there’s a lot of training out there at all levels. Many of these use models. A good model is patient (they are being paid to be there) and they don’t need a lot of help posing or striking a look. It’s a great way to learn more about photography – just don’t expect all ‘real’ people to be so comfortable in front of the camera!

Well done to everyone involved but especially the girls who took part. They were all so young and thrown into a voyage of self-discovery that I certainly couldn’t have taken on at their age! Great job! Great TV!