Saatchi Online feature Adam Coupe Photography

Adam Coupe Commercial Photography has been featured as Saatchi Online Photographer of the Day.

Adam Coupe Commercial Photography www.adamcoupe.com has been selected by the Saatchi Gallery Online site as Photographer of the Day for 27thApril 2009.

Adam Coupe commented “The Saatchi Online website is the pinnacle of the creative arts in the UK and one of the most influential worldwide creative resources.  It is particularly flattering to have my commercial photography images selected and featured on the site”

Adam Coupe has received recent acclaim for a series of commissions to capture the atmosphere and décor of busy London restaurants and the fresh architecture of the new St Paul’s Cathedral Visitor Centre.   Adam commented “Saatchi online have featured the ambiance that I capture when photographing diners relaxing over a meal – a particularly important aspect focused upon by interior designers”

Adam Coupe is a commercial photographer who works with designers, architects, agencies, manufacturers and commercial organisations who need to project their products, people or brand in a vibrant way.   Adam Coupe Photography images are mostly shot on location with the emphasis on delivering creative, beautifully taken photos on time, on budget and on brief.  Studio photography, from product shot work through to advertising campaign images including lifestyle and people are also provided for a variety of customers.

Top 10 Tips for Buying Photography Services

Traffic to the new 'Whistleblower' article Top 10 Tips for Buying Commercial Photography Services has been particularly strong suggesting that Marketing specialists are sick and tired of the lack of transparency in services and pricing - content has been updated since first published in Nov08 following blog reader feedback.

Extract:

Photography is an industry that doesn't do itself any favours at times with transparency of what buyers should expect to receive or what they should be paying for.  There seems to be a hang over from the film days that a fee was charged for time eg. a daily rate and then other additional fees were added on top - see item 4 below.  We can't see how this approach developed - other than from photographers who wanted to lose customers quickly.  In todays competitive markets service delivery and pricing needs to be completely transparent.  Forward thinking photographers have a commercial approach which matches the expectations of their customers.

This guide aims to provide a number of tips and pointers on what to ask your shortlisted photographers before making that all important first commission.  We recently won a client who had used nine different photographers in a twelve month period.  This situation created a lack of consistency in image style and quality that could have been avoided if the buyer had agreed some groundrules before proceeding with commissioning.

The ten tips below are written as an introduction to various less well known areas of the photography industry - topics that most people know of but perhaps not the fine detail.  

Topics in the article include:

1.   Understanding your Requirements

2.   Flexibility

3.   Terms of business

4.   All inclusive service

5.   Copyright and Photography

6.   Does the Photographer shoot in RAW or just JPEGs?

7.   Format of Images

8.   Liaison with Location

9.   Supplying Images for Print

10. Proofing Images via FTP

I've already had a number of additional 'irritations' emailed to me by readers so keep them coming in at adam@adamcoupe.com and I'll post them up in a future update.

If any of the frustrations ring true and you want a simpler life then call me on 079101 68536.