Monthly Archives: September 2010

Win an awesome learning experience! A personal tutorial shoot with us

Hey guys,

OK – so we’ve booked up our two advanced seminar courses next weekend – advanced photography, and advanced photoshop.
As it’s turned out – most of the people booked in are professional photographers themselves – we’re really looking forward to it!

However, we’d love to get a few more people along to our beginner level seminars.

As a bit of an incentive… a giveaway!

First: The prize.

The winner will get to come along with us for a wedding fashion shoot. You’ll get to see us in action, we’ll explain the steps behind what we’re doing, there’ll be plenty of off-camera flash (and the explanation of how it all works), posing, hot models, smoke machines, epic locations, and more. It’ll be like the advanced photog seminars – but just you & us, so you get 1 on 1 learning – can ask as many questions as you like, etc. And of course you can shoot away – play with our lights, etc etc. It’s a great way to learn what goes into making our images look the way they do.

Examples of our wedding fashion work (ie the kind of stuff you can come & play with) are:

Our Karangahake Gorge shoot:

wedding fashion

wedding fashion

Jo’s Trash the Dress:

wedding fashion

wedding fashion

Our Bride Parade shoots:

wedding fashion

wedding fashion

wedding fashion

and pretty much anything we shoot that involves a gorgeous couple, in a gorgeous setting, with gorgeous lighting, and repetition of the word “gorgeous” too many times.

How to be the winner:

Refer some of your friends / family / random strangers to book in for our beginners photography / photoshop classes.
If they book into one seminar, you get one entry. If they book into both seminars, you get 2 entries. If you get two friends that book into both seminars, you get 4 entries.
So on & so forth.

Whoever has the most entries by Thursday 23rd September at 5.00pm will be the winner.

If only one person enters, and there’s only one entry, you’ll still win.

IMPORTANT – make sure that when you refer people, you tell them to pass your name along to us as the referral – otherwise we’ll never know who to give the entries to!

So get in touch with people that are budding / new photographers – and get them to come along & register on our course, and drop your name while they’re at it!

For more info about the beginners photography course, send your friends to this link:
http://www.instantphotos.co.nz/blog/auckland-photography-seminars-saturday-25th-september/

For details about the beginners Photoshop course, send them to this link:
http://www.instantphotos.co.nz/blog/auckland-photoshop-seminar-26th-september/

Look forward to giving this awesome session experience away to someone :)

Life FM wedding season – engagement photos of the 5 finalists!

Hey guys,

On Saturday – we had an awesome time chilling at Carrington’s with the LifeFM crew & heaps of hopeful couples, for the announcement of the 5 finalists in the ‘Wedding Season” competition.

The venue looked gorgeous all set up, and it was lovely having the chance to chat with many of the couples, and show off some of our albums.

** by the way – if you missed us, and would like us to send through a PDF copy of our ‘wedding guide’ booklet with heaps of tips for planning your wedding day schedule / ideas to keep in mind – send us an email at info@perspectivesphotography.co.nz and we’ll get one out to you.**

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Anyway – eventually, the long awaited announcements came – and 5 lucky couples made it through to the final stages.

Afterwards, we did a quick engagement shoot marathon with each of them – squeezing each couple into a 30 minute slot (where we’d usually spend a few hours!). Condensed time-frame notwithstanding, we got some gorgeous images with each couple – here’s a few of our favs.

Nathan & Gabrielle

Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot

Matthew & Hayley

Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot

Iain & Kayleigh

Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot

Ben & Emily

Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot

Sandip & Janice

Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot
Auckland engagement shoot

All these shots were taken around the Unitech grounds, where Carrington’s is – so you can rest assured that you’ve got plenty of great photo options if you book your wedding there… plus of course places like Western Springs or the city centre really close at hand too!

So… which couple would you most like to appear in our photographs? (putting a twist on LifeFM’s comp!!) – you can vote once per day here.

Enjoy the shots guys – and we’ll keep you posted as to who eventually wins!