Workhouse Marketing welcomes our new Account Manager, Nicolas.

Didn't take long to find the kettle then!

Everybody at Workhouse is delighted to welcome a new Account Manager into our team, Nicolas Kendall. Nic joins us from The North Space, and this is what he has to say by means of an introduction…

I’m 28 years old, ‘just married’ and live in Barnoldswick. Although originally from Leeds, I have formed a fondness for the Lancashire life and especially the rolling hills of the Ribble Valley. Having graduated a few years ago with an English degree in Liverpool, I started my career in marketing and design firstly at Splinter Communications (18 months) and then The North Space (5 years). In that time I have worked closely with many clients including Silentnight Beds, NHS, Liverpool Mutual Homes, Tullie House Museum and Oldfield Group, delivering creative and results-driven marketing communications solutions.

I was immediately attracted to the role of Account Manager at Workhouse Marketing and have been made to feel very much at home in these first few weeks since joining. The team has lots of personality, creativity and a great track record of delivering tangible results and I’m looking forward to working with all clients, existing and new, on a broad mix of projects.

Away from the studio I enjoy captaining a local football team (to recent promotion!) as well as playing a bit of guitar in a local band.

Nicolas.

This brings the total number of staff in the Workhouse Marketing team to 23. Nic’s pic was shot by in-house photographer Andrew Woodhouse in the infinity cove at Workhouse Photography Studios.

What’s an Infinity Cove?

One of the aspects of our photography studio I am asked most about is the infinity cove or cyclorama. Just what is an infinity cove/cyclorama and what benefit can it have to your product photography/photography.

An infinity cove is primarily an all white space with no corners (sometimes they can be painted other colours such as grey), this is designed to make the background of an object look like it goes on for infinity. Photographing on an infinity cove is very popular in commercial and advertising photography.

Shooting on an infinity cove also makes it very easy to cut out a product for use in brochures and on the web.

A basic infinity curve can be created out of seamless white paper supported from a background stand. This can be good when you are photographing a small product or single person, but for larger items or groups it can be problematic. This is where a proper infinity cove comes into its own.

Workhouse Studios has a large corner infinity cove, which measures 6m x 6m by 4m. This is one of the largest infinity coves in the North West and makes Workhouse Studios a very versatile shooting space.

The cove is plenty big enough for car photography – we’ve had a Ferrari F430  and a Bentley Flying Spur on it amongst others and can also hold large groups of people – fitting 30 people of for a large group photo is no problem.

Andrew.

Check out some images taken on the infinity cove at Workhouse Studios below:

The Workhouse Infinity Cove is big enough for automotive photography.

Promo shoot for Ribcaged Theatre Company

Furniture product shots for Ancient Mariner.

Wood burning stoves, and some nice people pics.

Anybody who knows the Workhouse Marketing meeting room, will be aware that it has it’s own micro climate. Whether it’s sunny, foggy, rainy or snowy outside it is always freezing in our meeting room, (a 300 year old room I might add). Just come out of a meet with a new (frozen) client who pointed at the old wood burning stove in the corner…and said…”that’s an original Esse manufactured at Barnoldswick in Lancashire, they give out a superb heat and would make this room lovely and warm”. So, after occupying this building for nearly 10 years, the time has finally come to light a fire in our meeting room. Just need to add to somebody’s job description,” collect coal and logs and light fire in the morning”. We’d be able to present some really hot creative in our meeting room then!

Apparently both the log burning stoves in the building (pictured below)……

Esse Wood Burning Stove in our meeting room

Jotul wood burning stove in our creative studio

…are worth a few quid, so if we get behind budget we might turn to the second-hand log burning stove market for help. Esse were the company who made the original ranges before Aga was a twinkle in it’s makers eye. Check out the Esse website. They’re not a client so I might just give them a ring…http://www.esse.com/stoves/index.html

By contrast our photography studio has underfloor heating, and is now lovely and warm. We’ve been doing quite a few people shots of late, some against a black backdrop, some against the large infinity cove,  here are some children and a girlfriend of  Workhouse staff…photographed at Workhouse Studios.

My son Tom

Angeline's daughter Betty

Campo's girlfriend Clare

If you want to see more of our pictures, or hire the studio, or hire our photographer, you can get all the details on our photographic studio at the Workhouse Studios website, here is the link…http://www.workhousestudios.co.uk/

Day in the life of Workhouse photographer.

Workhouse Photographer Andrew Woodhouse talks about a particularly busy day at Workhouse Studios with two different jobs either side of the country and completely different subjects to shoot. Here’s how the day went…

Workhouse hosts Cars and and Model shoot for PPS.

On Saturday 18th April Workhouse Studios hosted a Cars and Model shoot for members of Preston Photographic Society. They day was great fun and was attended by about 10 photographers in all – including Workhouse’s photographer Andrew Woodhouse.

Highlights of the shoot included models Andrea Heaton and Lindsey Smith (Lixi), a Harley Davidson chopper kindly provided by Joe Rawsthorne and a blue Subaru Impreza provided by Rajdeep Sandhu.

People continue to be impressed by the vast space on offer in the 3500 sq. ft studio, with the highlight for many being the massive cove! Photographer Rob Georgeson said of the studio “A very professional and well equipped studio, I’d definitely be interested in using it again”.

A couple of the photos from the shoot are included below.

Workhouse takes Unistage to a new level

Workhouse have just completed a 3 and a half day product photography shoot for local company Unistage (www.unistage.co.uk). It was a very interesting 3 and a half days and the staging took over the whole 3500 sq foot studio and utilised the huge infinity cove.

The beauty of Unistage is it’s modular nature which allows the end user to create a variety of different stage designs out of a set number of pieces (set 12, set 16, set 20, set 24 or even a set 32).

The shoot went really smoothly and Unistage MD Steve Huckle said of Workhouse Studios “Workhouse Studios takes Unistage to a new level” ……”Photographer Andy was truly fab-his work and attitude was, and will be truly recommended- job well done”.

Below you can see some behind the scenes photos and also some example photos from the shoot.