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KENT PHOTOGRAPHER - ALAN DUNCAN LMPA | ||
| Alan Duncan Photography, tel: +44 [0]1303 243 935 | |||
| 14 Kingsnorth Gardens, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2QW | |||
| Member of the Master Photographers Association |
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FOLKESTONE, DOVER, HYTHE & KENT PHOTOGRAPHER | |||||||||
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Alan Duncan Photography is a well established photographic business with its studio and office based in Folkestone, Kent. Specialist services include aerial & commercial photography and the ever changing, fashionable world of wedding photography. Other areas of interest include PR photography, photo restoration and portrait photography. | |||||||||
Alan Duncan - his background | |||||||||
Alan Duncan's passion for photography started during his school years and has remained ever since. His professional training began in aerial photography, where after four years, he became chief photographer. Then the travel bug hit hard and he went to North America, teaching photography and then worked as a photographer on the cruise ships which took him to many exotic places such as The Caribbean. His desire to expand his knowledge of photography brought him into the additional and more creative areas of commercial and wedding photography. This diversity has stimulated extra enthusiasm in his work and indeed these different fields of photography all overlap in some way or form, to give him a more capable, stronger backbone to his photographic knowledgebase. His fully equipped studio is based in Folkestone, Kent and although most assignments are based within Kent, Alan frequently travels further afield. His main areas include aerial photography, industrial & commercial photography and wedding photography. Please click on the various links above for more information and folios in these different areas of photography. Alan Duncan now also has two additional specialist websites. For further information about wedding photography, wedding packages and many more wedding folios, please visit: www.weddingphotographerkent.com For more folios and detailed information about aerial photography in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Essex, please visit: www.aerialphotographerkent.com He is a qualified member of The Master Photographers Association and Wedding & Portrait Photographers International. | |||||||||
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All images © copyright Alan Duncan Photography | |||||||||
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The studio is just a 5 minute walk from Folkestone town centre or 1 minute from Folkestone Central Railway Station. By road, exit the M20 at J13 and follow the signs for Folkestone town centre/Railway Stn. Kingsnorth Gardens is situated immediately behind and on the south side of Folkestone Central Railway Station. Limited parking is also available. Located just 5 minutes from Hythe, 10 mins. from Dover, 15 mins. from Ashford, 25 mins. from Canterbury and 30 mins. from Maidstone. Please ring for an appointment or further information. | |||||||||
| ................................................................................................................................................................................... A few interesting photos from recent assignments. | ||
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| Joanna Lumley waves to the Gurkhas and supporters at the Gurkha Freedom Of Folkestone Parade. [photo by Alan Duncan - PR photographer in Kent] | Joanna Lumley and Michael Howard applaud the Gurkhas at the Gurkha Freedom
Of Folkestone Parade, 18th June 2009. [photo by Alan Duncan - PR photographer in Kent] | |
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| 2012 Olympic Ceremony fireworks over Dover Castle. [photo by Alan Duncan - commercial photographer in Kent] | Photography in a grain store filled to capacity - without sinking! [photo by Alan Duncan - commercial photographer in Kent] | |
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| A very happy wedding couple at a chosen location of their choice. [photo by Alan Duncan - wedding photographer in Kent] |
Lively, modern, action portrait. [photo by Alan Duncan - portrait photographer in Kent] |
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| Aerial photo of coastline between Hythe & Folkestone. [photo by Alan Duncan - aerial photographer in Kent] |
Aerial photograph of the Roman Fort near Sandwich in Kent. [photo by Alan Duncan - aerial photographer in Kent] |
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............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG - camera talk for professional photographers and budding enthusiastic amateurs | |||||
The economics of Digital versus Film Photography. Digital photography is cheaper??? There are no film and film processing costs and digital photography undoubtedly provides photographers with amazing new possibilities. However, the latest professional digital cameras are several times more expensive than their previous film versions and upgrades seem to be necessary every three years or so, as the technology is new and continually improving. The last Mamiya RZ67 cameras that I owned, were as good 15 years after their purchase as they were when they were initially purchased! Technology of film cameras had hardly changed in that time. Also, don't forget the costs of powerful computer equipment, storage and colour calibrated monitors. The other and possibly more significant factor is time. A professional workflow for photographers now means that generally after an hours photo shoot, at least another hour is needed in "behind-the-scenes" production time. Initial backing up of the RAW shots taken, selecting and sorting images, adjustments to colour balance and exposure, file conversions to the common TIFF or JPEG file formats, cropping, retouching and resizing of files, burning to discs, further backups of the finished files, finally followed by the cataloging of each image for future reference, are all important and necessary tasks, but add a considerable amount of time to every job. Still cheaper? ;) Canon 1DS mk3. As of December 2007, the Canon 1DS mk3 is trickling through here in the UK. Probably THE camera to have, but I'm waiting to see a few reviews first before I run out and buy one. Specs can be found on Canon's website at: http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS-1Ds_Mark_III/index.asp It's now February '08 and I have caved in to the pressure of owning the highest spec camera in its class! A larger screen, better battery life, inbuilt sensor cleaning and more memory card recording options are the main obvious improvements to this new 21 megapixel camera. A more hidden function is the "highlight tone priority" mode which has proved very useful for both aerial photography [photographing white buildings surrounded by much darker land & trees] and wedding photography [white wedding dresses - especially in sunshine]. Photographs generally appear to be "cleaner" and have more tonal depth. The Canon 1DS mk2. After years of using 6x7cm, 5x4" and 35mm film camera systems, I now use the Canon 1DS mk2 for nearly all my photography. This is Canon's current flagship model with a 17MB sensor which will output approximately a 50MB TIFF file, equivalent to an A3 print @ 300dpi. A superb camera and of course, all the standard specifications can be found on Canon's website [http://www.canon.co.uk/for_home/product_finder/cameras/digital_slr/eos_1ds_markii/index.asp], but I would like to make a few points about this camera which are a little less known. The make and type of memory card used makes quite a difference to the speed at which images can be recorded at. Over the last few years I have used Lexar, IBM and SanDisk cards, the latter being the fastest, with a quoted 20MB per second write speed. Interestingly though, I purchased the new SanDisk Extreme IV, with a quoted write speed of 40MB per second! I expected a significant speed increase to the Extreme III, but the performance on a Canon 1DS mk2 was practically the same! Presumably now, the processing power of the camera is now the limiting factor, so don't waste the extra money on an Extreme IV, if you are contemplating buying a new card. The Extreme III is good enough! That said, if you also purchase the new SanDisk Firewire reader, it's conceivable that the download speeds to your computer can be increased, but this I can't comment on as yet. | |||||
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