From Capture to Canvas
The ability to create artworks from everyday commissions can provide a valuable additional income source. Using various techniques in Photoshop and Painter and ideas provided by some of the world's greatest artists and photographers, the lecture will show that you don't need to capture and create great works of your art for your clients.
Bio
Tom Lee is a Fellow of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, and is also their Vice President. Tom is the current holder of the Overall Contemporary Album of the Year. This is the second time in three years that Tom has won this national competition organised by the SWPP.
Photography is not just about technical competence; this is only one aspect of the art of weddings and portraiture. Many photographers who call themselves artists fail to convey to their audiences the emotional impact of the subject. In Tom's case however, his well learnt and practiced skills on the technical side have left him free to develop the aesthetic side and use his judgement to project his own feelings for his subjects into the picture and the viewers consciousness.
The vitality and insight captured via the use of light and shadow in his photography provide a unique view that can stand side by side with the best. His work holds beauty, grace, authority and influence of real people for us all to experience.
Photography unlike any other profession brings us into close and personal contact with an astonishing range of people including painters, sculptors, actors musicians and socialites. Many become life long friends, and also the subjects of our portraits. Tom is a master of poetic photography, a true photographic artist, with a career spanning 25 years he has made a distinctive contribution to photographic portraiture.
Leaving education as a frustrated artist, Tom turned to Architecture and life with a drawing board, later training as a Structural Engineer. It was at a tender age of 21 that he was introduced to photography. His first camera was a rudimentary affair including two zoom lenses. When looking back, it's difficult to see how, when picking up that camera, his hobby, vocation and entire life would revolve around taking pictures. Like most budding enthusiasts he joined a succession of local camera clubs learning basic and advanced skills, and became successful at national competition level.
Realising the need to develop and improve his skills in the Social Photographic Market, Tom attended many lectures and seminars organised by the SWPP and gained Licentiate and Associate qualifications. Now recognised for his expertise in digital image capture, Tom is also noted for his storybook style of wedding albums, involving montage style pages and softly blended backgrounds. Using stylish Italian albums and utilising the latest technology, clients are expected to pay a high premium for his work.
Tom has since given many seminars and written extensively for the Society magazine - Professional ImageMaker. Tom has been active in his role as Vice President for the SWPP & BPPA, and was awarded a Fellowship in 2002 as recognition of his services to the industry. Tom is also a member of NAPP (National Association for Photoshop Professionals) and WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International). His recent success in their open print competition is testament to his skills in competing with the best in the world.
SWPP & BPPA
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Tel: 01745 356935
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Professional Imagemaker
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Ultimate Frame Design
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theimagefile
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0870 224 2454 0870 224 2455
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Memory Collections
113 Soho Rdd Handsworth Birmingham Midlands B21 9ST
01215510520
01215516897
PhotoArtistry Limited
Unit 5 2 Pennard Close Brackmills Industrial Estate Northampton Northamptonshire UK NN4 7BE 01604 700608 01604 763834 www.photoartistry.co.uk anne.herbert@photoartistry.co.uk
Nikon (UK)
Nikon House 380 Richmond Road Kingston-upon-Thames Surrey UK KT25PR 0208 541 4440 0208 541 4584
iView Mulimedia
30 -40-Elcho Street Battersea Park London UK SW11 4AU
020 7223 8691 07223 8712 www.iview-multimedia.com mark@iview-multimedia.com
Sim 2000 Imaging
Churchill House Stirling Way Borehamwood Hertfordshire UK WD6 2HP
020 8736 0585
Olympus
228 Honduras St LONDON LONDON EC1Y0TX
020 7253 2772 020 7251 6330 www.olympus-europa.com
Queensberry Albums
Queensberry Group
P O Box 20-314
Glen Eden, Auckland
New Zealand
64 9 813 9160
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J P Distribution
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Winsover Howden
Unit 7a Winsover Centre Winsover Rd Spalding Lincolnshire UK PE11 1EJ
01775 714424
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Adobe Systems
3 Roundwood Ave Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex UK UB11 1AY
020 8606 1100 020 8606 4004 www.adobe.co.uk
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Kodak Ltd Kodak
House Station Road Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire UK HP1 1JU 01442 844880
Albums Australia
Unit 17/993 North Road Murrumbeena, Victoria Australia 3163
613 9563 7099 613 9563 7056 www.albumsaustralia.com.au dave@albumsaustralia.com.au
Fuji Photo Film (U.K.) Ltd
Fuji Film House 125 Finchley Road LONDON LONDON UK NW3 6HY
020 7586 5900
Europark-Noord 21-22 - 9100
Sint-Niklaas -
Belgium
Tel +32 3 760 02 00
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Noble Fine Art
Unit 9 Home Farm Business
Centre
East Tytherley Road
Lockerley
Hampshire
SO51 0JT
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Calumet
UK Administrative Office
Promandis House
Bradbourne Drive
Tilbrook
Milton Keynes
MK7 8AJ
01908 366344 (telephone)
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100 High Craighall Road
Port Dundas
Glasgow
G4 9UD
Tel : 0141 333 9444
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Imagicam Online Albums
24 Pyegrove Chase Forest Park Bracknell Berkshire UK RG12 0WE 01344 643087
Cain Road
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 1HN
01344360000
www.hp.com/uk
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Productive IT
(UK) Ltd
75 The Campions
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire
WD6 5QG
England
0845 128 4020