Welcome to Sue Todd Photography's blog.
An insight into life as a Food & Hospitality Photographer
Promotional Images – What do you need?
Like most businesses, Food, Drink and Hospitality companies all have promotions throughout the year. BUT while the promotions themselves are likely planned well in advance, the images to go with them aren't always. An exception to this are the main seasonal ones,...
The Seasonal Shots & Awareness Days Shots Your Business Needs
Another type of image that you really need in your image bank are seasonal shots and shots to cover awareness days. Not just any shot either! Often people just choose some stock photography or take a quick iphone shot without thinking about it and assume it will do....
Have you found your why? This is my why!
I found 'my why' - have you? Is what you are doing now what you wanted to do from childhood? Have you found your why? I used to hate that question. I am (finally) doing that one thing I dreamed of, but heck did I take the long way round! My A level art teacher was a...
The Tools of your Trade – How to use them
We all have tools of our trade that we use on a regular basis, and mostly we don't spare them much of a thought. Unless they go missing, stop working or malfunction then suddenly we're fully aware of them. Your tools don't necessarily have to be tools either. It...
Behind The Scenes Shots – Why you need them
The next thing to consider when contemplating photography for your business in 2021 are behind the scenes shots. Whenever I mention behind the scenes shots, people tend to look at me and say 'really? Do you think anyone would be interested?' The answer has to be 'HELL...
Why are Staff Portraits important?
Staff portraits can be a really key part of the imagery for your business, which is why they should figure in your imagery plans this year. Though probably like most people that's not something you wanted to hear me say. I know few people enjoy being photographed....
Context Shots – What are they? Do you need them?
What are Context Shots you ask me? Well let me explain. Have you ever bought something and been really surprised by the size of the item on arrival? Way back in 2014 when I was doing grocery shopping online for the first time I ordered a bag of flour to make bread. I...
What image format should your images be?
An all important thing to consider before commissioning photography is the image format that you need - landscape, portrait or square images or a mix? It's easy to think that all you need to do is just engage the photographer and hey presto it's done and dusted....
Lifestyle Shots – What do you need this year?
This post about lifestyle shots is part of a series I'm doing on preparing your imagery for 2021. I totally get that its a very hard market place at the moment, and while it's easier perhaps to sit back and wait for lockdown to lift, that's the worst thing to do. As...
Packshots – what to think about in 2021
If you sell products online then packshots are a must have and quite often people assume that one image of each product is enough. I'd say that in most cases one image is never enough. Why? Think about it, if you are buying something, you want to know about it in...