About Mark Crapper
- By Michael Harrison
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- 13 Mar, 2011
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Mark dir. of MC Photography started out his photographic training at Norton College (formally Granville) in 1983 leaving with a National Diploma in commercial photography.
He was offered a job by a local company where he had done a work-placement, RLP, which specialised in industrial & commercial photography. His main duties there were as a black & white printer & assistant photographer.
In 1989, Mark was approached by Mike Ford Photography, which he joined as commercial, advertising & PR photographer. He did this for a number of years, before being made redundant in 1992. After completing a government run business scheme, He set up his own company later that year. MC Photography was born. Mark started out by sharing a studio with Alwyn Greyson and also Dean Hodson of www.imgfactory.co.uk.
Mark has built good long standing relationships over the years with companies such as Spear & Jackson, Pegler Yorkshire, Slater Clark Associates & Whirlpool UK.
“Over 25 years in the photographic business has set me in good stead to carry on providing a good quality service both photographically and personally”.
He adds, that he always try’s to be flexible in his approach when working with client’s.
Selection of text above taken from October 2010 issue of F2 Magazine article about MC Photography.
The time frame is very short between completion and handover so flexibility and communication is key with all parties concerned and Formm have been able to facilitate easy access and help from Formm's clients.
Using a combination of lighting, complex retouching and "the golden hour" we have produced some work we are extremely proud of in the past few years. The technique we use to create these images transforms cold, dull shots, into warm, vibrant images that are worthy of the technical and hard work that goes into creating these amazing spaces.
Take a look at some before and after shots!
From our Imacon to Hasselblad cameras, we can bring out laptop out, shoot direct to our 17 inch Macbook Pro so you can see exactly is what were shooting!
If you're product is needing a background we also have a large variety of backgrounds, varying in colour that we can also bring out to you.
We've had some extreme weather this year in the UK with the Beast from the East battering us early on in the year, but the summer we usually dont get in the UK has been very kind to us.
With the lovely warm weather it gives us a great chance to get out into the sun and shoot!
Quicktrack are a company that manufacture apparatus to wheel align anything from cars to large lorries, meaning a lot of their product is rather large.
Below is a behind-the-scenes shot showing the capacity of our studio to get this large product on a background and lit!