Category: Gavin Thorn Photography

On The Up – Website Traffic Hits 1000 Visitors a Month

 Gavin   Business, Gavin Thorn Photography, Marketing, QTSoftware, Social Media
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Analytics screenshot of http://gavinthorn.com

This week saw another landmark milestone for my main photography website, http://gavinthorn.com, that of achieving over 1,000 visitors to the site in a rolling one month window, as measured by Google Analytics. That’s absolutely staggering for a small site, designed and built by me with my QTSoftware hat on, that only went live on January 2nd 2011.

Over a thousand visitors! I still cannot believe it.

Furthermore, the traffic is still increasing and long may it continue to do so.

So, where is it all coming from? Continue reading On The Up – Website Traffic Hits 1000 Visitors a Month »

Themed Shoot – Bike Garage

 Gavin   Gavin Thorn Photography, Photoshoot

Bike Garage Studio Set Featuring Alternative Model Nina Kate

Had the privilege of photographing the lovely alternative model, Nina Kate a few days ago. The theme was to be a bike garage so we built an oily set in the studio to, the centre piece being a very large and very expensive matte black motorbike. I don’t know anything about bikes and there were no badges on it so don’t ask me what it was. I have absolutely no idea.

The lighting on the set was very straightforward. Mainly just a big octabank softbox on a Profoto head an a little separation light on the background. The set being very dark didn’t need much and anythng more would have been overkill.

My biggest fear on this set was contrast. The set was very dark being predominantly a black and muted silver pallette and Nina has very, very pale skin. An incident meter reading did the trick as always though and I think the results came out OK.

I’ve only posted the one image here – to see the remainder of this set you’ll have to pay a visit to my main website, http://gavinthorn.com/news/bike-garage-nina-kate/

Stepping up a gear…

 Gavin   Business, Gavin Thorn Photography, Marketing

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With my recent decision to start building the business side of the business I’m going to be attending a big networking event on Friday next week. That needs cards and this isn’t really the audience for my portrait or wedding cards. So, I need some new ones.

Designed these (see images above) over the last couple of days and after a lot of playing around with text and graphics, finally settled on somehing I like. It isn’t perfect but at least I’m happy with the layout.

Just placed the order and hopefully they should arrive in time for Friday’s event.

Gavin Thorn Photography site goes live

 Gavin   Gavin Thorn Photography, QTImages, theLightMatters
Gavin Thorn Photography Website

Finally managed to get my main site, http://gavinthorn.com, representing Gavin Thorn Photography designed, on-line and live. Phew. It’s taken a while owing to a lack of time from all the shoots I was doing towards the end of last year more of that in a future post) and the fact I wanted a clean, simple and uncluttered design but couldn’t settle on one.

So, how does it all fit together?

Continue reading Gavin Thorn Photography site goes live »

Gavin Thorn Photography…

 Gavin   Gavin Thorn Photography, Journey, QTSoftware, theLightMatters

I’ve wanted to consolidate my sites for some time now, particularly as I’m running my photographic endeavours as a business. When I bought this domain, thelightmatters.com, last year my intention then was to use that as my business name. I may well do this in the future but for the moment, leaving it just as my blog fits better with my longer term strategy and branding. Continue reading Gavin Thorn Photography… »