Children's photography seminars

Posted in Seminars at 14:02 on 04/03/2010

Following on from the series of seminars that we presented at Calumet stores throughout the UK last year, Tom Catchesides and I have put together a new series for 2010.

We will each be presenting a one-day seminar in Calumet stores and the courses are designed to complement each other to give you the option of going to either one or both. Tom's talks are scheduled for the day after mine, making it easy for those who are travelling to their nearest Calumet store to stick around for both.

Photographing children with Helen Bartlett

Helen has established a thriving children’s photography business that takes her all over the UK, photographing children in their own environment. Packed with pictures, examples and explanation, this new course contains plenty of new content for those who have already enjoyed Helen’s seminars as well as newcomers and will give you the confidence to work in different locations, deal with challenging conditions and take your photography to the next level.

This seminar will give you the tools to develop your own vision and style, while also covering all the essentials for any children’s portrait photographer from how to work with children to marketing and selling your work.

Helen’s course is designed to fit seamlessly with Tom's seminar, which demonstrates how to fit the techniques presented by Helen into a successful portrait business.

Delivering the goods

Tom presents a course that follows on from the successful ‘Post-production for portrait & wedding photographers’ course that he presented at Calumet stores in 2009. This intensive one-day course ties in with Helen Bartlett’s ‘Photographing children’ course and covers everything you need to polish your portrait & wedding images to a standard that will delight your clients. The course will explore:

The course is suitable for both established pros and those in the process of establishing a photography business. Some Photoshop experience is necessary, but a catch-up session will make sure that everyone attending the course is familiar with the tools used throughout.

Everyone attending the seminar will receive a disc containing details of the techniques demonstrated, sample files and the Photoshop Actions used during the course.

Dates & prices

Each seminar is priced at £75 inc. VAT. Tickets can be bought from the Calumet website and include lunch. You do not need to bring cameras or laptops - just bring yourself, a notebook and plenty of enthusiasm!

Tickets are available from the following links. Please ignore the fact that Calumet have got the title wrong for my course - what you've read about here is what I'll be talking about and the course is relevant to both wedding and portrait photographers!

Helen @ Belfast - Tuesday 4 May 2010

Tom @ Belfast - Wednesday 5 May 2010

Helen @ Manchester - Wednesday 5 May 2010

Tom @ Manchester - Thursday 6 May 2010

Helen @ Birmingham - Tuesday 11 May 2010

Tom @ Birmingham - Wednesday 12 May 2010

Helen @ Nottingham - Wednesday 12 May 2010

Tom @ Nottingham - Thursday 13 May 2010

Helen @ Edinburgh - Tuesday 18 May 2010

Tom @ Edinburgh - Wednesday 19 May 2010

Helen @ Liverpool - Wednesday 26 May 2010

Tom @ Liverpool - Thursday 27 May 2010

Helen @ London Drummond St - Tuesday 8 June 2010

Tom @ London Drummond St - Wednesday 9 June 2010

Children's birthday party photography in Chelsea

Posted in Parties and Occasion shoots at 23:25 on 25/02/2010

The blog has been very quiet recently. I do apologise, things are busy here with sorting out the new house (pictures coming soon) and lots of work going on behind the scenes here at Helen Bartlett Photography. It is very exciting and the fruits of our labour should be hitting the blog very soon.

In the meantime I haven't blogged the pictures from Ana and Juan-Pablo's fourth birthday party. It was an amazing party - everything a fourth birthday should be with balloons, cake, hula hoops and also my favorite party entertainers the lovely Magical Quests who entertained the kids at my niece and nephew's parties last year.

Here are a few favorite shots

Family photography in Islington

Posted in Kids at 15:45 on 12/02/2010

I am back in the office today after the most amazing week on a workshop in Brighton (more on that next week).

It has been great fun being away and photographing a totally new subject but also nice to be back and working on my children's portraiture.

Today's blog post is from a shoot before I went away, a wonderful family morning spent in Islington in North London. We had a great time and the children were just fantastic, so much fun to photograph.

Here are few favorites

Baby photography in Brixton

Posted in Babies at 14:01 on 05/02/2010

It is always a treat to get really good coffee before a shoot and so I was delighted to see that this shoot was just round the corner from my brother's house and so I could call in for my morning caffine hit. I am not quite sure how pleased to see me Giles was at 6.45am but if he wasn't he hid it well.

Then it was round the corner to meet Jonna and her beautiful family. We had a lovely morning playing in the flat as it was very cold and miserable outside. Here are some of my favorite shots of the day

Nallini and Samrat's wedding in India with Tom Catchesides

Posted in Weddings at 13:27 on 03/02/2010

So, January disappeared as it so often does and I am only just beginning to get to grips with the new year now February is here. The blog is now back in business.

Not to say that January wasn't busy, in fact just the opposite which is why things have been so quiet here recently. I shall be catching up with the blog backlog over the next couple of weeks.

It makes sense though, to start at the beginning. On New Years Day Tom and I headed off to India to photograph the wedding of Nallini and Samrat. What an amazing start to the year! We had a few days in Delhi then we headed off to Neemrana where the wedding was taking place. It was an absoultely spectacular two day ceremony and we had such a wonderful time - the most lovely people and we were made to feel so welcome, really part of the family. We had a few days in after the wedding back in Delhi for a bit of site seeing and a visit to the Taj Mahal but it was definitely the wedding that was the highlight of the trip. Tom has posted some pictures on his blog already but I thought I would like to post some here too. So here we go, a few (well, ok, a lot) of favorites from what was a most memorable start to 2010