On Thursday evening we took part in the opening of the new Benetton Store at Oxford Circus in the heart of London’s West End. To find out more about our event photography go to out event photography website.

Free makeovers were provided by the store and we photographed and produced glamourous studio prints for the shoppers who had taken part in the opening celebrations. The store opened at midday on Thursday and the photography sessions started at 4 o’clock. We finished at 8pm having photographed and produced prints for over 180 people.

Our mobile studio has been very popular this year, the photographs we can produce are studio quality and we can print and supply photographs at the event.

Last night I photographed the Hornsby House Summer Ball. It was a fundraising event supporting two charities, The Myotubular Trust and The Jennifer trust.

It was a masked ball and all of the guests arrived wearing masks, some as unconventional as Darth Vader’s headress and a world war II gasmask. It was a clear warm evening and the guests were able to have drinks outside until they went in to the marquee for dinner. A promise auction took place later in the evening raising further funds for both charities.

For more information on Event and Party photography go to: http://www.eventphotographylondon.uk.com/events/home/
The photographs will be up on my site by Monday afternoon.

The world of Party, Event and Corporate photography has been a very strange place to be in over the last year. I know many photographers whose businesses fell off a cliff last September as the corporates particularly cancelled their bookings and slashed all spending related to client and staff entertainment. Everybody in the event and corporate entertainment has had a pretty unremarkable year. But it seems bonuses are back, corporate entertainment without excess is now ok, and the total freeze on spending money on fun is starting to thaw.

So, thanks goodness for that!

This December for me looks good for Party and Event photography, bookings are starting to roll in and the ‘real time’ slide shows we do are very popular this year. We set up a large screen and continually feed the latest photographs onto the screen, very amusing for the guests as they see the party come alive on the screen. It takes two photographers to do this well, one to take the photographs and another to feed the selected images into a laptop and onto the screen. They are great fun and a great way to impress your friends and clients.

Supplying prints instantly, well more or less instantly, is another popular service we provide at events and parties. Last year we covered a party held at Selfridges for Tatler magazine and as the guests arrived we photographed them. We then superimposed a Tatler front cover onto the photograph we’d taken. They absolutely loved it and when the prints were produced and laid out for all to see it was the highlight of the evening for some.