Contact Information@algarphoto.com
Get in touch with Algarphoto.com, the professional photography resource on the Algarve.
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| Telephone | +351 282 353653 | TLM: +351 913 180521 |
| By Mail | Algarphoto, "Casa Dos Lombos" CP38P Porches Lagoa 8400-481 Algarve, Portugal
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| Directions | Contact us for directions by e-mail |
Can we visit you instead?
Can we bring small children or pets to be photographed?
Can you provide hair and make-up facilities?
Can we have digital images for printing elsewhere?
Can you optimise images for a website or on-line gallery?
Can you optimise images for printing in brochures or on posters?
Do you take card payments?
Do you take PayPal?
Do you offer framing for our photographs?
Do you have Terms & Conditions defined for me to see?
How much will it cost?
What is a Snoot, Softbox, Gel, Honeycomb, Umbrella?
What are your Terms & Conditions of booking?
What about you?
Yes we are more than happy to visit your home with all of our studio equipment or to work on site with private or commercial commissions. Our prices are the same, we simply charge a small (at cost) fee for travel.
We are happy to photograph babies and toddlers and we have a range of soft toys here at our villa studio to help keep them amused during a shoot. We are also happy to photograph well behaved pets either with or without their owners.
Currently, this is proving difficult to arrange reliably so we suggest that you make these arrangements prior to your shoot. If you are having problems finding someone, please let us know and we will do our best to make arrangements for you. Please e-mail or phone.
Yes we take card payments though PayPal.
Yes we take PayPal payments.
We offer a wide range of framing and image mounting options from standard frames through art canvas, jigsaw puzzles, mouse mats, tee shirts and key fobs.
We will happily supply you with your images in high resolution in any recognised format (CD/DVD/Web Upload/Memory Stick/SD card) at a reduced cost compared to printing.
We can optimise any image for use on web sites where rapid loading of initial pages is important. We charge 35 Euros per hour for this service and we can usually optimise 12 images per hour.
Brochure, Magazine & Poster images:
We can optimise any image for use in printed media. We charge 35 Euros per hour for this service and we can usually optimise 12 images per hour.
We charge 35 Euro per hour for assignment work and optimisation work. Travel is charged at cost which we estimate as 20 centimes per kilometer.
Studio sessions cost 120 Euro and include your choice of up to 5 high resolution printed images for framing or one unframed 40x50CM print
What do all these technical photographic terms mean?
Studio Flash is a professional variable power flash system which has the option to change the way in which the light is used through various tools known by some of these slightly unusual names. A good way o think of studio flash lighting as someone told me years ago is "like portable Sun" and that's pretty much what it is. We arrange a number of these "portable Suns" around you in the studio to create the image we want.
Soft Boxes: These go in front of the flash head to soften and diffuse the light.
Umbrellas: Unsurprisingly, these look rather like your regular umbrella. Different types of material allow us to either bounce or soften the light from the flash.
Snoot: This is a long "snout" like device that allows us to concentrate a small beam of light on a subject's features, typically used as "hair lights" to enhance the look of your hair in an image.
Barn Doors: These are simple mechanical doors fitted in front of a light in order to change the area of light spill. You may have seen these in TV shows or at the theater.
Gels & Honeycombs: Gels are pieces of coloured acetate that change the colour of light from the flash to enhance mood or change background colour. A honeycomb is a metal insert in a honeycome shape that concentrates light from a snoot or back light.
Our Terms and Conditions of booking:
- Click here for private portrait work
- Click here for Commercial T&C's
- Click here for Modeling T&C's
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Hi! I'm Martin Norrey, now an incredible 45 years old! I had a keen interest in photography from the age of 6! Working with ancient "two and a quarter square" formats back in the late 70's I progressed on to 35mm from the early days and always had a darkroom at home. Starting ESS in 94 with Nick Whiteley precluded photography for some time in favour of World travel in the name of Rocket Science. Since retiring to Portugal in 2008 I have begun the photographic odyssey that I always intended. In the meantime I have had work exhibited at the RHS show and worked with studio models such as Kate Brox. Now I am concentrating on Portrait work in our luxury studio at Lombos, along with a little glamour and a large dose of Algarvian life and landscape. Here I am with my (now ancient) Praktika TL1000 35mm Film SLR (with revolutionary through lens metering!) and even older Leningrad light meter (still works, that's the Ruskies for you!) taken in the studio by Deb with our barn door and snoot lights. I would love you to come and see our studio and be photographed or learn better photographic techniques here in the wonderful Algarve.
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Hi! I'm Deb, Martin's wife and studio director here at Lombos. My job is to make you feel at home when you visit us, generally by plying you with Wine, Tea, Coffee etc. I'm here to help Martin with our "Portable Sunshine" (a great simplification of studio flash from one of the guys at WPS studio's on a Kate shoot some time back) and to make certain that you are not harangued by photographers in any way! I have a good feel for Portraiture and will always ensure that you are at your ease in the studio, by far the best way to be certain of a good result. I am here for every shoot and it's my job to add a female perspective to the proceedings that Certain Photographers may (just occasionally) tend to gloss over. I am always delighted to meet our clients and show you the best of our luxury Villa studios from our flash sets to our excellent poolside. So there is absolutely no need to be afraid, we have two children (19 and 15 years old) so we can handle kids in that "been there, done that, got the T-Shirt" way. Surprisingly however, it's usually the adults that feel a bit wooden at first, the kids (as usual) tend to simply take it all in their stride. ' |
Some views of our villa and surroundings
The location for your shoot or tuition course
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| Gazebo and views over the vines to Porches | Poolside and Gazebo |
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| In the Studio on set#2 | Our Neighbour |
We sincerely hope that you will enjoy browsing our site and our many photographic galleries.
