Since Christmas I have been working hard on updating my blog and websites. As of yesterday these are now all live, finally giving a consistent look and feel to my entire web presence. As a result, the address of my blog has now changed to johnharrisphotography.co.uk/blog. Please update any references to the old address as this particular blog will no longer be updated (but will still be accessible for historic blog posts).
Thanks
John
Whilst it’s always great to get positive feedback from clients, as a photographer it’s also vitally important to get feedback from other professionals who have more experience and who can look at images with a dispassionate and critical eye. The British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) is an organisation which provides just such a ‘service’ through its qualifications scheme. I won’t go into too much detail here but essentially there are three levels of professional qualification that are awarded by the BIPP – Licentiate, Associate and Fellowship.
In order to be awarded one of these qualifications you have to travel down to the BIPP headquarters in Aylesbury to have your work scrutinised by five judges who decide whether your submission (or panel as it is known) is good enough to pass. Each panel concentrates on a particular subject area (weddings in my case) and consists of twenty images (10 from a single wedding and ten from other weddings) plus a Working Profile which is essentially a supporting document containing background information, a brief CV, commentary for each image and an indication of the order in which your selected images should be arranged.
Monday saw me up with the lark in order to travel down to the BIPP for my qualifications panel and although I was submitting my images for the Licentiate qualification and was told that I had passed on the day I had a lovely surprise the following morning when Chris Harper the Chief Executive called me to say that, following a further review of my images, they were going to actually award me the Associate qualification. To say I was surprised was an understatement!
Anyway I thought it would be nice to show you the images that I chose and also how they were laid out (whilst each image needs to stand alone on its merits, it’s equally important that when viewed as a whole the 20 images have a consistency to them both in look and layout). Thanks goes to all the couples featured in these pictures – I couldn’t have done it without you ;@)
Here’s the layout :
Thought I’d share some recent pictures from a studio portrait session I did with Brooke and Charlie whose parents are getting married next year. The kids were a little shy at first but soon got into the swing of things. Here’s a few of my favourite images from the day.
