Heather and Alan: Wedding!
Posted by Janet
26th July 2008
Heather and Alan got married yesterday! Wooohoooo!! We started off at Heather’s parents house where it was really all very calm.
I have a total thing about shoes - check out Heather’s!
And there were gerbra. I totally love this flower. Love its simplicity. This one was on the window ledge in the church. It’s great what you can do with a bit of backlight.
The reception was at Galgorm Manor . And the sun shone!
Girls with the great red and blue shoes - check back soon to see your images!
Heather and Alan, have a fantastic honeymoon! Thanks for letting us share in your day - we had a great time with you and your guests!
Heather and Alan: LoveShoot!
Posted by Janet
8th July 2008
We met Heather and Alan in Hillsborough for their LoveShoot last Friday. Hillsborough, it turns out, is full of all sorts of great places with lots of great alleyways, texture and light. Check out these guys with their smouldering eyes!
Loved this patch of green and yellow. We shot this out the back of Ruby and Ned’s, the kid’s hairdressers. It was a great location!!
Heather and Alan, we had such a great afternoon with you both. See you in a few weeks!!
j&k
10 ways photography is like hairdressing. No, really.
Posted by Kenny
6th July 2008
If you join us on the grape facebook page you’ll see how much we like purple cows. If you’ve read anything by Seth Godin you know what this is all about. We LOVE what he has to say about being remarkable. I’m sure Seth would agree, as we do, with our friend and photography goddess Jennifer Bebb that “boring is full.”
Because we are totally passionate about giving outstanding service to our clients and about being remarkable, we love it when we come across other companies trying to do the same. Which brings me to the point of this post - shamelessly plugging a company we came across yesterday while scouting locations for a shoot in Hillsborough.
Robyn Rycroft set up Ned and Ruby’s in January. It’s a hair place for kids and it’s very cool. It has made the whole process of taking kids for a haircut really fun. We have two kids. Give them the choice between eating cold brussels sprouts and getting their hair cut and it would be a very close call. No hairdresser that we’ve come across has made the effort, or had the imagination, to make it fun. Not until Ned and Ruby’s.
While we were talking with Robyn it struck me that there are quite a few similarities between hairdressing and photography. Stick with me on this one.
1. Low barriers to entry - anybody with a camera can set up a website and call themselves a photographer. Anybody with a pair of scissors can set up a chair and call themselves a hairdresser.
2. As a result there are lots of photographers. And lots of hairdressers.
3. Most photographers are OK. A few are awful. Most hairdressers are OK, but we’ve all had some awful haircuts. Or maybe that’s just me?
4. It’s much harder than it looks to be a great photographer, or a great hairdresser.
5. Hiring both hairdressers and photographers can be risky because you don’t really know what they’re going to do until they’ve done it. And so the market functions around personal experience and recommendation.
6. Great photographers produce consistently stunning results and make it look easy. Same with great hairdressers.
7. Great hairdressing is not about the scissors. Great photography is not about the number of megapixels.
8. Only very few photographers are truly great. That’s also true of hairdressers. Because there are very few truly great photographers (or hairdressers) the top few are very expensive.
9. Not everybody values great photography. Not everybody will pay a lot to have great hair.
10. There are lots of boring old men barber shops doing what they’ve been doing for decades. Of course they have their place and on a Saturday morning they do a roaring trade in £4 haircuts. But all the haircuts are the same - the only difference is the closeness of the shave. People order by number. You can complete the photography analogy yourself.
We loved meeting Robyn because in an saturated market where every supplier looks much the same as every other, Ned and Ruby’s stands out as something exceptional.
Ned and Ruby’s - we salute your purple cowness!
p.s. You’ll find them at 6A Main Street, Hillsborough, 028 9268 8712.
Wendy and Bruce: LoveShoot!
Posted by Janet
3rd July 2008
This was a fantastic shoot with Wendy and Bruce! Our recipe was:
a. amazing light
b. the very gorgeous Wendy and Bruce
c. one great warehouse
And look what we got:
This:
and this.
and this
Wendy and Bruce’s shoot is the first to be featured on our new grape.ie facebook page.
Hurrah! We are pretty excited about this!
Wendy and Bruce, we had a great time shooting with you both, and we are SO looking forward to August!
j&k
