Corporate Headshot Photography

• Corporate head-shot photography while you wait
• On-site service – minimizes disruption
• Proofs available next day

Need images in a hurry to meet the annual report deadline? Call for availability. You might just be lucky.

Perfect for use on your corporate intranet, extranet and internet sites.

Encourage your staff to use on their linkedin profile – far better than that picture of their dog or the dreadful, drunken camera phone image in the pub.

How does it work?

My corporate headshot photography service is geared towards giving my clients a fast service with minimal disruption to their business operations. All the images were on this page were made on-site at the client’s own premises using ultra lightweight studio equipment. This means all the heavy lifting is done in camera to reduce post processing time.

It takes a few minutes to set up in a conference room and the average sitting time is typically less than 3 minutes per person.

Your proof images will be available the next working day and the finals within one day of you making your selection and settling your account.

Client Testimonials

1. Are you getting fed up with squirrels and ducks?
2. Do you always leave your camera on fully automatic?
3. Do you take great pictures but wonder why someone else gets better results with less kit?
4. Do you just want to get out of the house on a Sunday afternoon?

I may have just the thing for you

Announcing theLightMatters™ Photography Workshops and Training

If you’re an amateur photographer, an enthusiast photographer or a semi-professional photographer, theLightMatters™ is just the thing for you.  Especially if you want to improve your photogaphy skills or simply just find more interesting subject matter.

My vision is to provide the very best photography workshops and training available in Surrey. That means studio days, location photo-shoots and taught courses. All brought to you in a friendly, supportive environment. I want to whet your apetite as to what you can achieve. I want to encourage you to step outside your comfort zone, just as I did several years ago.

Taking pictures is easy and fun. Making pictures is just as easy and just as fun when you know how. The biggest barrier to making great images isn’t what most photographers would have you believe. It isn’t simply a case of finding a more interesting subject. The biggest barrier to making great images is you. That’s right, you, reading this article right now. BUT it’s not as big a barrier as you might think. All you have to do is to get out there and do it. It really is as simple as that. It all comes from that desire, that passion, that spark from within.

So, what’s stopping you? Do it now! Head over to http://workshops.thelightmatters.com and have a look around. I’ve based the whole thing on the Meetup.com platform so you know what you’re getting. It’s free to join my community and there is no obligation to attend any of the events.

But you’re not going to overcome that barrier and make better photos unless you do something about it. Come on over and join us. You don’t have anything to lose.

Or you could just go back to photographing squirrels instead…

STOP PRESS – GTP in British Vogue

On Monday 9th April, 2012 the May edition of British Vogue goes on sale. In it, on page 240 there will be a little feature about Gavin Thorn Photography and one of the images I made of Amy Lazarou at the abandoned church just outside of Guildford.

It was a great shoot and at the time I hadn’t realised that the images, or rather one of them, would be published in arguably the UK’s most prestigious magazine for the fashion industry.

If you do get to see it, add a comment here to say hello and let me know what you thought.

PS – There is also a little QR code embedded in the image. If you scan it with your mobile it’ll take you to a super secret offer page on this site

To keep up to date with all the latest happenings at GTP, why not join my newsletter by filling out the form on the right? It’s completely free to join and I give you my personal guarantee I won’t sell your email address to anyone. You’ll also receive my top tips on how to prepare for and look great in your photos.

Wedding Photography to cry for…

… in a nice way of course

Weddings! You spend ages planning them and they’re over in an instant. Your guests have left. Your car has gone. Your cake been eaten and your dress returned. All that remains are your memories.

I Capture the Moment, You Treasure the Memory

Your memories and your pictures.

They’re with you today. They’re with you tomorrow. They’re special. They’re yours. They’re there to show your children. They’re there to tell your story. They withstand the passage of time.

Would you have it any other way?

But you only have one chance. When it’s gone, it’s gone forever. That’s where I come in as your Wedding Photographer…

* to capture those special moments
* to preserve your memories
* to tell your story

I don’t just photograph a wedding…

…I’ll tell your story

But let me ask you something…

* does this resonate with you?
* do you want to have your story told?
* do you want to be moved by your wedding pictures?

Contemporary Wedding Photography with a Fashion Style

If you can honestly answer “yes” to all of these and you want your wedding photographed in a reportage style with a fashion feel I’d love to hear from you. Come and talk to me about your wedding. You can request a call-back using the form on the right or if you’re really courageous, telephone my mobile. Don’t be shy. We’ll need to talk if I’m to take your picture and I really don’t bite very often My number is at the very top of this page.

PS – You’ll need to hurry, I don’t have many dates left for 2013.

Wedding Photography Areas – Guildford and Surrounds…

Being based in Guildford my wedding photography service is primarily based in and around Surrey and the surrounding counties of Hampshire, West Sussex, Berkshire and Middlesex. Typically this is everything within a 30 to 50 mile radius of Guildford and includes the towns listed below.

Surrey – Guildford, Woking, Staines, Camberley, Farnham, Haslemere, Godalming, Cranleigh, Dorking, Leatherhead, Addlestone, Esher, Cobham, Epsom, Reigate, Redhill, Horley, Caterham, Oxted and everything in between.

I just wanted to make a quick announcement about some changes to my photography pricing strategy that I’ll be rolling out over the course of this week. The package based pricing that I have been using for the last few years is far too complicated and confusing for most of my clients. It’ also time for a change as far too many of my colleagues are now doing this and I want to be different. Very different.

My new photography pricing will be more flexible for the client. Rather than try to categorise people according to what I believe they will buy several months ahead I’m putting the flexibility and the power of choice back into the client’s hands.

After all, why should I insist that a bride *has* to have a wedding album with a prescribed number of pages and images? Should she not be free to decide how she wants to receive her wedding photographs? The band looking for press kit and promo images need a system that works for them. As do the actor looking for head-shots for their Spotlight profile or the business person in need of corporate images to use in brochures and marketing material.

From this week onwards, the days of the photographers’ package pricing are numbered. I’ve listened to my clients requests and I’m bringing them a much more flexible and fairer alternatice.

BUT, it’s going to be available by enquiry only.

Hope you don’t mind but I’ve been working on this for several weeks and I want to keep it as the ace up my sleeve that the other photographers in Surrey don’t necessarily have

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of 1,500 sq. ft. of new studio space just a few miles outside Guildford in Surrey. Boasting a very large, white infinity cove that can be taken all the way from pure white to almost pitch black the studio is perfect for most photographic commissions. A second set comprises of a black background and the whole ensemble is completed with a lounge area, hair/make-up stations and separate changing room.

The new studio facility is a huge step forwards for me. It is ideal for anyone wishing to book me for…

• Fashion Photography
• Band Promo Photography
• Model Portfolio and model testing
• Individuals and small to medium size family groups
• Corporate photography
• Dance and performing arts
• Actors’ head-shots
• PR, media and advertising commissions
• Product photography
• Photography tuition and courses
• etc.

Located very conveniently for the A3, M25 and mainline railway between Guildford and London Waterloo the studio is very accessible and will appeal to clients as far afield as Woking, Weybridge, Surbiton, Sutton, Epsom, Guildford, Godalming, Farnham, Aldershot, Horsham, Wembley, Central London and many, many more places in between.

Preview images from my coverage of the A La Mode shows hosted by LGN Events at the Royal Society of Arts are now available for press viewing.

Please use the contact form on the right for all enquiries in the first instance.

A La Mode showcases new and emerging designers each season and yesterday’s event was definitely one not to be missed. If you would like to view my preview images contact me through this page and I will make them available. There are over 200 images across all five shows, featuring the AW12 collections of…

Obscure Couture

Kami Shade

Rehmali

SEEN Couture

Luna Sky

More information about the first course after the jump…

Introduction to Basic Studio Photography

Format
Taught course in the studio with approximately 40% theory and 60% photo-shoot.

Content

• Introduction to studio lighting equipment
• Lighting theory
• Characteristics of light…
• Modifiers: what they do and why we use them
• Lighting patterns
• High key lighting
• Portrait and Beauty lighting
• Low key lighting
  

Who is it aimed at?
Amateur and enthusiast photographers who would like to take their photography to the next level.

Pre-requisites…

• Must have a DSLR camera with hot shoe or PC socket
• Basic knowledge of their own camera
  

More information will be available soon through my blog, http://theLightMatters.com. In the meantime, I can strongly recommend the following books on the subject if you’re serious about taking your photography to the next level.

Since I found it, I’ve done some research and most of the images I’ve seen are gothic/alternative. I wanted something different and inspired by the amazing works of Drew Gardner, I wanted to use it for a woodland spirits shoot. When Amy contacted me and I found out she was a classically trained ballet dancer I knew she was perfect for what I had in mind. The rest is history, or so they say.

One last thing. This location is completely unspoilt by graffiti and to keep it as such, I’m keeping it a closely guarded secret. Please don’t ask or I’ll probably send you on a wild goose chase

Gavin Thorn Photography is now being featured on theBestOfGuildford. Check out my new page here…

http://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/guildford/business-guide/feature/gavin-thorn-photography/88431

theBestOf is more than just an on-line directory and is the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Mr Nigel Botterill. They’re also very strong supporters of the Buy Local initiative that you may have heard of them. Definitely worth checking out imho by following the links on this page which will take you to my listing. Then come back here and book me to shoot you In the photographic sense of course…

theBestOfGuildford logo courtesy of theBestofGuildford