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I recently spent three days in the Not­ting­ham and Derby region on a pho­tog­ra­phy project for Oakhurst Con­ser­va­tory Blinds to use to mar­ket their prod­ucts on the John Lewis web­site and for John Lewis to cre­ate a pro­mo­tional poster. The con­ser­va­to­ries were all in every­day use by their own­ers who where all John Lewis clients. We had arranged to bring a good selec­tion of props to assist in dress­ing the con­ser­va­to­ries, and bear­ing in mind the bud­get con­sid­er­a­tions, worked with the home­own­ers’ own furniture.

Break­fast in Conservatory.

Our objec­tive was to cre­ate images that would evoke the emo­tions in peo­ple brows­ing for con­ser­va­tory blinds, such as ‘the light break­fast for two’ in the image above.

Cel­e­bra­tory lunch in wood frame conservatory.

In this sec­ond pho­to­graph, we set up a ‘cel­e­bra­tory lunch for friends or fam­ily’. I was on loca­tion with one of the own­ers of Oakhurst Blinds and while I set up light­ing and took test shots, she vis­ited Wait­rose to pur­chase the lunch items.  I had brought the flutes and cham­pagne for this image.

Made to mea­sure ceil­ing blinds.

Being in daily use, this con­ser­va­tory is actu­ally is a tele­vi­sion room. On arrival, it had three very large reclin­ing leather chairs occu­py­ing the room, which though per­fect for com­fort­able tele­vi­sion view­ing did not por­tray the look we wanted. We removed the reclin­ers and brought in fur­ni­ture from the owner’s liv­ing room. The pho­to­graph set-up helped to focus atten­tion on and max­i­mize the impact of the spe­cial made-to mea­sure ceil­ing blinds.

We’re now look­ing for­ward to our images being added to the John Lewis web­site to pro­mote fit­ted con­ser­va­tory blinds and see their pro­mo­tional poster.

To see more of our pho­tog­ra­phy please click on this link to our pho­tog­ra­phy home page.

Regards Simon.