Happy New Year 2013 Competition

Happy New Year Competition with Justin Krause Photography

! WIN this MASSIVE PRIZE !

ONE FREE SHOOT for up to 5 people
THREE 9" x 6" prints
TWO 12" x 8" prints
ONE 24" x 16" canvas
TOTAL WORTH over £125!







Details - 2 easy steps to this Great Prize!

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2. Post on our page's wall saying why you should win this fantastic prize.

The comment with the most likes will win :-)

Remember to get as many of your friends to to LIKE our page and to LIKE your comment on our wall!



SHARE THIS ROUND and GOOD LUCK !

Many faces of Steve !!

I know I said the next post would be about CHRISTMAS but I had to get this one up here first!

Long time friends (and pretty much family) TEAM INNALLS tried to have a semi serious family shoot in the studio the other day.

Steve likes think he's a bit of a joker and insisted on pulling all sorts of daft faces throughout the shoot.

Seems like his look hasn't changed much from last year when Steve thought he'd go for this look...turns out he makes a pretty good zombie!  FIT !!

Hi (!!) to all the blog viewers from around the world!!

After seeing the blog view counter go up and up and up over the last few weeks I thought I'd have a quick look at where people are viewing from!

Hi to those in the UK - my main audience, thank you ! 

Hi also all those in the USA, Canada, Holland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bermuda, Germany, Dominican Republic, Ukraine and South Africa! 

Next post I'll be uploading some photos from all the Christmas portrait shoots we've been flatout with in the studio for the last couple of weeks!! 

In the mean time, here's a funny photo of a horse from the wedding of Denise & Bruce - an awesome Australian couple who came over to the UK for their wedding back in September (before I was blogging all the weddings we shoot).

Keep spreading the word and the love please

FREE PhotoShoot when in HALLOWEEN Fancy Dress !

This year is just FLYING by !! Since Matilda came along time seems to be vanishing right before our eyes, she's already a month old and it's mad, she's so amazing and I love having her fall asleep on my chest when I'm back from the office but anyway, I digress.

I KNEW it was September and KNEW Christmas was only around the corner, hence getting the Christmas Offers all sorted out, flyer designed and promoted everywhere but I completely forgot about ALL HALLOWS EVE !   Here in the UK Halloween is still nowhere near as massive as it is in the USA but it's getting bigger so why not jump on the marketing bandwagon? So I designed a new flyer, bold and concise and here it is!

Halloween Offer for kids ( or BIG kids ) who want to come in fancy dress with up to 5 friends (more can be accommodated but we need a bit more planning).  

See the Special Offers page on our website for the selected dates. 

Come and celebrate Christmas with us!

Sitting, usually £15.00 NOW £12.00 INCLUDING ONE 9"x6" Print 

Sitting Package, usually £35.00 NOW ONLY £28.00 INCLUDING THREE 9"x6" Prints

PARTY PACKAGES, usually £10 Per Person, NOW £8.00 Per Person INCLUDING one £9"x6" Print Per Person

FULL RESOLUTION IMAGES of your whole shoot on CD (print what you want, when you want) in Colour & Black & White, usually £135.00, NOW £108.00.

Due to the high volume of Photographs I have to edit and the volume of prints that our Printers have to deal with our last date for sittings to get prints in time for Christmas will be Sunday 9th of December.  

BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL!
EMAIL US TO BOOK YOUR SHOOT!

Please see below for Postage if required:

UK Special Delivery £6.00 for Prints (Envelopes) & Rolls (Large prints are sent in tough cardboard rolls)
International Signed For™ with Airmail (Europe) £11.00
International Signed For™ with Airmail (rest of the world)  £16.00
nb: International Signed For™ with Airmail delivery, Royal Mail's target time is three working days to Western Europe, five working days to Eastern Europe and seven working days for the rest of the world.

Traditional Wedding Myths BUSTED !

Just a quick post to say about a great article I saw from Wedding Idea's Magazine about some of the traditional wedding do's and don't's.

My Favourite advise is that the Bestman doesn't have to be a guy and the Bridesmaids can be Brides"men" ! Have a read.


















For our 2013-14 Wedding Photography Pricelist please email: weddings@justinkrause.co.uk

KEEP CALM AND GET THE BROLLEY'S OUT ! (July, Summer Weddings)

In true British fashion our summer has had a ton of rain and other weather associated bonuses!

KUDOS to all our Brides & Grooms this season who have had to endure some utterly atrocious weather, we've had it all; gale force winds, torrential rain and even some hail at one point.

If you do plan to have your wedding in the UK you need to take the British weather into account and be able to adapt your wedding plans incase of adverse weather. Book a Photographer whose camera equipment can still function without risk of failure and who has backup bodies and lenses should the worst happen. Also book a Photographer who isn't afraid of at least doing what you're happy to do i.e. get out amongst the puddles should it come down to it!

At the very least follow the advise of our very own KEEP CALM poster...

Possibly the worst weather this year was for Claire & John on 7th July. Ever seen a soaking wet 5d mk2? I was secretly praying to the Canon Gods that their weather proofed bodies and L-Series lenses are as protected as they say they are.  In true British fashion though this fantastic Bride & Groom did keep calm and made the most of it! After all, what can you do?  Who want's clear blue skies in their wedding photographs anyway? Especially when you can have some extra dramatic clouds as your backdrop!

Last month (June) Debbie & Jonny had an overly excited north-westerly wind with gusts up to 40-50mph with a splash of rain! Again, this amazing couple just dealt with it! Our standard issue white brolley's wouldn't have done us much good here but the stormy clouds did give us some epic photo opportunities!

Our last wedding (before we broke to prepare for the arrival of our first baby, due on 28th August!) was for Wini & Ajar last weekend. Again wind and rain was on the agenda for the morning but as we arrived at Binham Grange in Somerset the sun showed it's face for a short while! 

For our 2013-14 Wedding Photography Pricelist please email: weddings@justinkrause.co.uk

Baby & Pregnancy Shoots

Seeing as we were already in the Studio for a New-Born shoot we thought we'd get a couple Photographs of my amazing wife, Emily (who was 27 weeks pregnant at the time) before the clients arrived. We had a few plays around with some lighting and basically took, which has since become, one of our favourite photographs to date...this might change when Baby Krause arrives in the world though...

There's no Photoshopping going on here; I fashioned a crude looking long snoot from some cardboard, took the brolley off the flash and jimmied it on with some zip-ties. It's now added to the arsenal of light reflectors, diffusers and other light modifiers in use in the studio for various shoots.

I actually took the photograph in Black & White straight on the camera.  We both seriously love B&W Photography, so much so that our entire Baby Portfolio is made up of Black & White Photographs.

Time to practice your "aaaww's and "aahh's"...here's a couple of our "Watch Them Grow" Babies.