New Year. New Us!

I’m really excited to announce we’re refreshing our website www.doctor-photo.co.uk with a new, contemporary identity. You could say we’re having a long over-due Facelift of our own!

Watch this space as we implement the changes but please don’t worry – this won’t affect the photo upload system (EASY).

Here’s a sneak peak of our new logo

Here’s to a great New Year to everyone

John

Which Magazine has been researching how buyers find properties and I’m rather pleased to say that they have confirmed my own belief that a property’s photos are extremely important to the decision to view.  Read the rest of this entry »

I teach a lot of people how to improve their property photography but my business also edits several thousand photos every month for estate agents and individual customers all around the UK. On photography workshop days, the questions that I invariably get asked about involve Photoshop and these include, ‘How did you get rid of that car?’ and ‘How do you add blue skies? Some people are fascinated by what can be achieved, but like many other skills, success boils down to experience and the ability to see things differently. Read the rest of this entry »

I thought it might be fun to showcase some of the out-of-the-ordinary Photoshopping jobs we get asked to undertake from time to time and so I’ll be putting up a few examples of before and after jobs that gave me some particular pleasure when I did them.

Here’s a photo of a footballer who was the dad of one of my older customers. You’ll see that he’s missing a leg, although in real life he definitely had two.

My mission – to ‘grow’ the other leg.

I used to be an agent and one of the challenges I had, like most agents have today when they’re selling new homes, is how to make the one-off new house or small development, the ones that haven’t been furnished or dressed in any way, look sexy so that they stand out from the crowd. Read the rest of this entry »