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Please email if you would like your own comments to appear hereIt's a great collection of real advice and practical working. I shall be passing others to your website to purchase your manuals, I think they are worth their weight in gold. Very very useful and I couldn't stop reading them until I had finished the last one. Very compulsive reading and packed full of information, not puffed out and full of mumbo jumbo rubbish that you get in everyday books.
Well done and congratulations of producing them.
best regards
Mark Spooner
Dear Garry,I bought your complete set of tutorials last night
Yes, that's right.. I bought it around 4 hours ago, and i'm still here reading it at 12.45am. I can't drag myself away from the PC as I now have the information I have been needing for such a long time, and it's shaping up to be one of the best investments I've made. I haven't got past the business side of things, never mind the actual techniques!
Yours Sincerely,
Scott Wright.A couple of days ago I came across your website and downloaded some of your tutorials:
The Professional Photography Manual
Studio Lighting
Portrait
Wedding
I must say they are great value for money.
I recently spent the best part of £300 for a ‘Photography Business Course’ from a company in Australia. It was mainly to do with marketing but had various other bits and bobs in with it. Have I read it? No. I’ve picked my way through some of it and it didn’t motivate me at all.
When I downloaded yours, I did so with some cynicism – but I was wrong. They are excellent. Straightforward and easy to understand and I certainly feel motivated.
A few weeks ago I bought some daylight florescent lights from a reputable UK company. I wish I’d read your tutorial before the purchase as, like you say, they did not do want I wanted. I had to use such a slow shutter speed, on ISO 800, (I use a Canon D60 SLR) which was absolutely no good for what I was doing - Jayne Bargent
"It is rare for me to write an endorsement for something. In fact I cannot remember doing it before, so I must feel that this is different for me to want to put my name to it.
I have seen a number of books before that tell you anyone can be a professional photographer, all you need to do is x, y, z. All that happens is that after buying the book you are really none the wiser and a few pounds out of pocket. One of the reasons for this is that a lot of these books are not written by professional photographers. They are written by professional writers rather than photographers.
That is one of the many factors that make this book different. It is written by a professional photographer of many years standing. He is able to write from a position of experience. The book makes a number of invaluable suggestions about how to go about finding work and how to best spend a limited marketing budget. It goes in to depth in many areas. For example how to put together a mailshot and who to send it to. It discusses different markets, naming the ones where you are most likely to find success and others that are much harder to crack.
It doesn't stop there though. It walks you by the hand through how to structure your business and other key areas such as the potential minefield of copyright.
The book doesn't use fancy language to dress up the subject. It is an easy read. It is around 90 pages of common sense and hard earned knowledge." - Andy Needham, owner of www.photographers.co.uk
"Thanks Garry for all your help and I just want to say that your book is a real cracker, well worth the money. You can quote me". - D.B
"When I got your book nearly 3 months ago I was sceptical because it says the opposite to everyone else, but you are 100% right and now I am making money for the first time. Just wish I had found it before" - H.C. Clarke
"I always wanted to do studio photography but don't have the money or space for equipment. Your tutorial does everything it says and has made it poss for me to get started" - H. Webster
"Covers everything about glamour and now I know how to get really professiional results I've just had my first shots published" - Beverley Smith
I didnt really think I would learn anything from this but my wife got it for me. It's great and now get really good fashion shots instead of the usual boring ones - L.R. Smith, ancientwoodlands@aol.com
"This is the best how to of the lot, its very modern and does all styles of portraits. It shows photography magazine how tos up for what they are, useless. Ive learnt more from reading this than Ive learnt in 4 years" - John Connor
"Full of trade secrets, loads of different techniques and example photos, the best fiver I spent" - Nick Amis
"I'd just bid on a 'complete studio outfit' and bought your tutorial at the same time. It was too late to cancel my bid and I just had to hope I'd get outbid and I did. You saved me over £300 on a heap of crap because I would have bid higher. Also very good is all the tech info" - Bill Roberts
"Does everything it says on the tin and then some" - Fran Jackson. Many thanks,
"It's a great product and I have l;left positive feedback. I'm a little below par right now so will have the time to study in depth. Thanks again
regards" - kerrell"I've been doing weddings for nearly 20 years and still picked up some very good tips" - JF
"Takes all the fear and stress out of wedding photography and guarantees making money at the same time, many thanks" - Mark Gayle
"This is just perfect for my first wedding job" - HFD
Hello.
I purchased your wedding tutorial last night and I could not put it down, I would love to get into wedding photography and your tutorial has answered nearly all the areas that I wanted to know about but did not know who to ask, Your tutorial is a god send and it has spured me onto getting my behind in gear and going for it, it has made light out of the darkness and sense out of bafflement.
When I have mastered this tuition I will not hesitate on going for your next tuitions, I am 50 yr old and raring to go.
You may print my email address along with comments in your feedback if it will help.
Regards
John
higgins5589@ntlworld.com
Hello Garry,
I have looked at your manuals on line before, then followed the link from Photographers.co.uk and decided to invest in the professional photography manual which I downloaded this morning.
It is the most useful, waffleless, direct, sensible document about photography businesses that I have read - I have already picked up some valuable advice, and it also persuaded me that I do need to do some of the things I didn't want to - web site design being the main one, having waited several weeks for my webbers to change the main items on our website, the ones I can't change of course.
Lots of other things struck me and having read it through once, I can now sit down and carefully go through and mark the things to do straight away, things to do soon and things we don't need to do (nor will be able to as we are at the moment, which is fine)
So, thank you. I would like to meet you in the flesh as it were, and sometime, when I'm back in Bradford, we might try ringing and toddle over to meet you.
Thank you again
