Chichester photographer: Editorial photography

Chichester photographer - editorial shoot in West Wittering.
Tobias Key of Tobias Key Photography discusses his latest work:

July '08 - Chichester and Brighton photographer Tobias Key

I had great fun shooting a portfolio update for Leah Hibbert of Oxygen Models. We used various locations around Chichester and the Witterings, and took advantage of the great weather we've had over the last few days. To contact me for your own portfolio update visit
Tobias Key Photography

Chichester photographer - summer package offer

Summer Package is Here!

Summer is (allegedly) with us and the kids are on holiday, so Tobias Key Photography is offering a special photography package deal. Just book a session Monday to Friday and you'll get a photo sitting in a location of your choice*, two A4 prints on fine art paper, and six 7 x 5 prints for the all inclusive price of £200 that's a saving of £85 on the normal price.

To book just visit our portrait website or call 07962 816481 for more details.

*within 25 miles of Chichester otherwise a small mileage charge will apply.

Wedding Photographer Sussex launch for 2008

Award winning Sussex photographer, Tobias of Tobias Key Photography launches his new reportage wedding photography service to clients in Sussex and Hampshire.

Thank you to those couples who have already booked my services for their Summer Weddings in Sussex - I look forward to working on location in Bosham, Arundel, Chichester and Brighton.

The initial service I provide is aimed at couples who prefer the flexibility to produce their own album from print-ready digital files.

I am also linking up with a professional make-up artist and we are offering a bridal photography session where we'd do some very nice shots of you on location before the wedding day. This is a great way of getting some really nice photos and taking some of the pressure off yourself for the actual wedding day.

wedding website link

HP Scanjet G4050 Review part 1: First Impressions

Tobias Key of tobiaskey.com, Chichester and Sussex portrait photographer reviews:

What's in the box:

Film holders for mounted 35mm transparencies, 35mm negative strips and a combined 120/4x5 holder. The holders are on a par with the Epson holders for the 4990, in other words adequate but nothing special. The 120 holders can't hold negative strips completely flat and I doubt the 4x5 could either, again not unusual at this price bracket.

The Software installed without a hitch (I'm using Vista). The most unusual thing I found was that there is no icon to operate the scanner from your desktop, instead you have to press one of four buttons on the top of the machine depending on what you want to do.

I didn't like the scanning software. It's very clunky and only offers 8 bit greyscale scans. I already had a copy of hamrick's excellent vuescan so I quickly started using this instead. Vuescan transforms this scanner's usabilty and produces much better scans. I honestly don't think I could recommend this scanner if I had only used it with HP's own software. In fact, I think I would have taken in straight back to the shop, the HP software does not offer the enthusiast anything like enough control and has a horrible user interface. If you want to buy this scanner for scanning black and white negatives, budget for a third party software package like vuescan or silverfast if you want to get decent results.

Next: some scanning examples

Review: HP Scanjet G4050 Introduction

Scan made with HP G4050

Chichester photographer, Tobias of Tobias key Photography review his latest scanner:

So after a few years service my Epson 4990 scanner died and I was forced into another scanner purchase, for scanning my 120 black and white negatives. For someone like myself, a scanner purchase is a thorny issue. One of the downfalls of mainstream film use was the time and expense involved in getting a negative into digital format. Now, a long time after the horse has bolted, there are a good range of affordable flat bed scanners that claim to do that job at previously unheard of prices, like the sub £200 Epson 4490 and HP G4050 up to the far more sophisticated Epson V750 at over £500.

I decided to buy a scanner at the cheaper end of the market to proof negatives for drum scanning. I felt that if I was to ever want make a big enlargement of a particular negative I'd either have a wet print made or get a drum scan. To my logic getting a V75o was pointless as I'd never be confident in using a consumer flatbed for a large canvas or exhibition print, my flat bed would really be little more than an alternative to contact sheets and 7x5's. And it is with this in mind that I'm reviewing the G5040.

Next: Installation and First Impressions

Award Winning Images by Sussex Photographer Tobias Key

Chichester portrait photographer wins awards

I'm pleased to announce I've just won two gold awards in the SWPP image competition. The winning images were location fashion photography shot in the Chichester area. More examples from this series can be seen in the editorial section of my website www.tobiaskey.com

Editorial Portfolio

Sussex Photographer Tobias Key is updating his commercial and editorial portfolios for 2008. The series above is shot with model Leah Hibbert of MOT models.

Keep checking in to http://www.tobiaskey.com/ to see this fresh new work.