Based in Christchurch, wedding and portrait photography I also covers many day nurseries and playgroups in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Ringwood and elsewhere in Dorset and The New Forest.
I love visiting the nurseries! I usually have two sessions each year, one in the spring, and another in the autumn, and love getting to know the children over the years they spend there! So sad when they leave and go to big school.
The old days of one pose in a boring brown strut mount have long since gone – today’s proof cards have four poses, and you can go online to see more, and choose from such a wide range of products – mounted prints, unmounted, keyrings, mugs, T-shirts, teddy bears, canvas wraps – all sorts of things!
A while ago, I reached the limit if what I could do, solely by myself; I photographed the children, edited the images, printed the proof cards, bagged and labelled them with the order forms and pricelsts, created the online albums, collected the orders, send the files off, put all the prints in the mounts, bagged, labelled and delivered them back to the nursery – phew!
Which was when I sought alternative solutions, and after looking at many different companies, decided that Dunns Imaging offered the solution that came closest to what I wanted – multi-pose proof cards, and online previews and online ordering, and they put all the packs together, put the pictures in the mounts, and package everything! Leaving me free to do what I love – create gorgeous images!
But the Dunns solution wasn’t ideal – simply the best I could find at the time. The ordering was system was rather clunky (good technical term) and not at all intuitive – to see a larger image, you had to select a product, drag the image onto it, click it, click something else, and you could see a larger but still unrepresentatively fuzzy version. And it was slow.
Well, last week, I had the honour of becoming only the second photographer in the whole of the UK to have a sneaky little look at what they are going to be doing in the spring. The website that you, the parent, sees is being completely overhauled and all the issues I had with the old system have been addressed and more besides – it’ll be far more intuitive, much easier to use, clearer, quicker AND it will work on your iPad, iPhone, and all other smart phones and tablets – really excited about it, and it will be live in time for the spring photoshoots!
Also coming in the spring are some lovely new very funky backdrops – it’s time for a change from white!
I would like to take on another two good nurseries – so if you are a nursery owner or manager and are looking for a different photographer – call or email now!
Tags: bournmouth photographer, child photography, Dorset, funky backdrops, New Forest, playgroups, professional nursery photographs
