Free Downloads – Photo’s from SDC’s Past Productions

It must be about 6-7 years now that I have acted as photographer for the Southport Dramatic Club who run The Little Theatre in Southport. Over this time I have built up a huge collection of images. Some are taken during the dress rehearsal ‘live’ performance, some are staged as photo opportunities and the rest are head and shoulder portraits; ‘mug shots’ as the actors like to refer to them. These images are usually shot on the dress rehearsal night. I then process the images, email a selection off to the printer (Mitchell and Wright in Southport), email a selection over to the local newspapers and the SDC’s web site. Finally, a selection is made to print out for Front of House display and for the advertising board in the street.

I have occasionally been asked for copies of images but most people don’t get chance to see what I have shot. Anyway, I am now proposing to let people have electronic copies of the images for their own personal use, for free. The images will be accessible and downloadable from pages on my web site.

Images are at full resolution, big enough to use as personal promotion material for those who have professional aspirations or alternatively, to have a print made for your aunty Mabel. Although you can have them for your own use we don’t want to give up our copyright of the images altogether; I strongly believe that Photographers who give away their copyright don’t value their own work. I would like to share these images with you and yours. It’s a way that I can give extra value to the theatre, spread a little happiness and let more people see my work.

With so many images I won’t be able to release everything all at once so I am going to work backwards (more or less) putting images on as and when I get the chance. All future shows will be available a short time after the show starts. Some shows were shot on film and my archiving methods were not ‘perfect’ in those day’s so I won’t be able to make everything I have ever done available.

That is the proposal and I would like to hear what you think about it. The images from the Full Monty, staged back in May are there now on a web page on my site. If you want download any of them just email me and I will come back to you with a password. This is a ‘manual’ system so please be patient when awaiting your password.

To see what is available so far click here.