CLICKETY CLICK

At Clickety Click we use cameras all the time. Obviously we use them at work, but we use them at home, on our holidays, when we are out and about… everywhere! This can make us irritating people to know – for example, take us to London and we have an irritating habit of stopping in the middle of pavements to photograph something!

But that’s to be expected, surely? We set up Clickety Click because we LOVE photography and we love photographs. Take my house for example: I can see five photographs from where I am sat now – and that’s just on the walls, I know that in the next room there are several in frames, hundreds in albums, and thousands in a box waiting to be sorted which date back to at least 1997 and the days of my Fuji APS.

But… when I thought about what is lurking in the box they are all from my school days, and only a small section of my albums are dedicated to my life in Sheffield and the last 6 years. When I thought about it I realised what the difference was. I had bought a digital camera. And now suddenly, all my photos are sat – badly organised and unedited in files on a hard drive because I haven’t taken the time to sort through them and use them in a way that I can truly appreciate them.

 It’s all about effort. It’s no hardship to drop a film off at Boots (or your retailer of choice), collect prints a few hours later. Simple, and the only way to see your pics. Then it’s easy to throw out all the one’s where your finger has mysteriously crept into the edge of the shot. Meanwhile in the world of digital you have to sift through the files, get on your editing software to see if you can crop the offending finger out, idly wonder if it would look better in black and white, hunt out the memory stick, transfer the files and toddle off down to the shops. Which have closed because it’s taken so long.

So we at Clickety Click are doing a survey. We want to know how you use your camera now, what you do with all your pictures, and most importantly what you would LIKE to be able to do with them! Then we’ll be putting together the results and putting together a series of hints and tips to get people using their photographs and get them off the hard drive!

If you would like to take part the survey can be found by clicking HERE!

As some of you will know Clickety Click has worked with local charity Rotherham Hospice on a few occasions! We have dodged water and bubbles at their “It’s a Knockout” event and have visited the hospice to photograph the patients and staff, with the pictures being used as part of the “Light Up A Life” Memorial Service. We always enjoy the work we do with the Hospice and so we were thrilled to receive this wonderful testimonial from their Event Fundraiser, Louise. 

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Well this week Clickety Click celebrated a year of trading in Sheffield! This meant that not only did we at Clickety Click have a great excuse for a party (although it doesn’t usually need much of an excuse!) but also we introduced some new business developments.

This most significant change is that the partnership of EJ Clark, D Robertshaw and JA Upson trading as Clickety Click no longer exists. Instead this has been replaced by Clickety Click Photography Ltd. This has been in the pipeline for some time but we felt that the new financial year and our first birthday was the perfect time to launch our new trading status!
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It’s a funny old thing inspiration. Some days I feel like it’s there in abundance, and ideas for shots are coming into my head faster than I can press the shutter. And on other days I feel about as inspired as a cardboard box. Same for writing blog articles really, and while I was seeking inspiration for my article, inspiration found me – somewhat literally.

The days when the creative juices are flowing are my favourite days to go out and take pictures – those are the days when everything seems that bit more photogenic, from the amazing scenery of the Peaks (which let’s face it, is pretty photogenic most of the time), to a tiny flower and even to a squashed Irn-Bru can in Kelham Island. These are the days when it’s great to try something new, even if you aren’t really sure it will work. Days when you spend 30 minutes in your back garden, getting very odd looks from the neighbours as your peg an extremely vintage wedding dress to your washing line in the spirit of “trying something new.” Sometimes it works, sometimes it looks better in your head than it does in real life, and sometimes you wake up the next day wondering just what it is you had been thinking the day before.

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This week I promised you a little bit of information about some jobs we have been working on!
We have a few jobs in the pipeline that you will hear about in upcoming weeks but this week has been a hectic whirlwind of paperwork, courses, phone calls, meetings, studio visits, more paperwork and of course some photography!

Although usually Clickety Click spend the majority of our working time photographing people this week we were working on capturing the ambience of a restaurant in Crookes – Zaras! These pictures were for use on their website to show the beautiful interiors they have created since taking over the restaurant seven months ago.
Normally we’d start a job like this by getting some shots of the outside of the building – David made a valiant effort but in true Sheffield style the rain was pouring down, leaving Eleanor and the equipment cowering in the relative shelter of the bus stop(who said being a photographer was glamorous!) So it was a relief to get into the warmth and sumptuous surroundings of the restaurant.

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This week our Technical Director and all-round internet wizard, James Upson, is under the spotlight!

Name: James Alexander Upson

Age: The oldest of the directors at 25 they never let me forget it!

Marital Status: Engaged to Eleanor! We’re currently planning our wedding and so we always get asked who is going to be doing our photos and as David is going to be one of the Groomsmen, unfortunately, he isn’t free to do the photographs, although I am sure his camera won’t be far away – he can’t resist an opportunity for a photograph. We are actually having a family friend  who is a semi professional wedding photographer, we were very choosy though and made sure he fitted with our photography style.

What do you do for Clickety Click? Hmmm interesting question! About the only things I don’t do are the administration, although that has been made simpler with our implementation of a staff forum and taking the photographs, although I do have the odd go with Eleanor’s camera when she isn’t looking. Oh and the accounts of course although I do support the software.
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Hello! And welcome to “Clickety Click: In the Frame”, our new Blog! Here you will be able to find out more about who Clickety Click are, the challenges of running a small business, behind the scenes of our photoshoots and anything and everything that interests us!

We’re aiming to update this every week but if you want more Clickety Click info why not follow us on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook!

So to kick us off we thought we’d give you the opportunity to meet the people behind the camera, so first under the lens this week is Photographer and general admin monkey – Eleanor.

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Name? Eleanor J, Clark

So what’s the J for? It’s Jane. I know, not terribly exciting, but there it is.

Age? Increasing too quickly! I’m 24.

Marital Status? Engaged, and getting married in July next year. And if you think in the picture he looks like our Technical Director – that’s because he is!