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W E LCO M E
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C R E AT E
I M AG E S
F O R
T I M E L E S S
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AU T H E N T I C
S O PH I S T I C AT E D
PE O P L E .
We are a boutique fine art studio focusing on high quality photography services. Whether it’s choosing the right suppliers, a great print paper or working with the most talented editors and stylists, quality is something we don’t compromise on. Investing in great portrait photography is a commitment to ensuring that you’ll have images lasting a very long time and images that will put a mark on a special time in your life. We believe in timeless, classic, elegant and authentic imagery. We’re really committed to genuine and natural photography and we love what we do. We believe that a good photo shouldn’t be distinguished by trends. It might be captured today, but just as well, it could have been captured 20 years ago or 20 years in the future. And that’s why we specialise in analogue film photography. It’s important for us to maintain exclusivity which is why we take on a limited number of portrait sessions every year, and we prioritise sessions where we have a strong connection with our clients. Every session we photograph has the opportunity to be featured on our website, our blog or we submit to one of the local magazines and international online editorial publications.
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A NALO G U E
F I L M
Analogue film is a specialised art form of photography. It’s the ancient expression of photography and it’s a beautiful way of enhancing your images. The colours and the feel of classic film photography is unbeatable. Your images will truly stand the test of time as we use the same technology used 50 years ago and we use vintage cameras that are no longer produced. We pride ourselves on specialising in analogue film & we define ourselves as hybrid photographers, using both digital cameras and analogue cameras as medium to capture your story. We are one of the few photographers in the UAE that use analogue film and as film is so rare nowadays, there are only a handful of professional labs left in the world. Our film lab, Carmencita film Lab, that scans and develops our film captures are based in Valencia Spain. No photoshop, no digital viewfinder - we craft our image in camera which slows us down to be sure that we capture our frames perfectly on the first try. With vintage cameras, things can go wrong and there are never guarantees. But, this is also the beauty of film, and this forces us to be extra careful when handling our equipment and measuring the light. To add a film package, there is an additional film cost due to the high cost of photographing and developing on film.
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PORTRAITS Happy times! Either you are up for a celebration or you want to capture your annual milestones. We focus on couples and their journey through life, but we also have families that come to us for their annual por traits and individuals that want to treat themselves or got a beautiful gift of a por trait session.
E NGAG E M E N T
CO L L ECT I O N S
This is such a special time in your lives. You have just gotten engaged, WOW congratulations! And you’re thinking maybe it’s a good idea to capture some photos of the two of us to savour this moment. Oh yes! For so many reasons. To capture you. To solidify this moment in photos. To celebrate! To have some amazing photos for your save the dates, for your wedding website and not to forget, as a beautiful backdrop for your wedding app! Engagement photos are always handy for your BIG social media announcement when you want to share with the world that you said YES, but most of all it’s keepsakes for the two of you. E N G AG E M E N T S E S S I O N
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H O N EY M O O N
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C O U P L E
Approx. 1-1,5 hour of photography approx. 50 high res images Personalised online gallery for 1 year Travel cost to Dubai, Abu Dhabi included A E D
4 . 0 0 0
* T R A V E L C O S T Abu Dhabi A ED 0, Dubai A ED 3 0 0 / Rest of UAE A ED 6 0 0
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P O RT R A I T
CO L L ECT I O N S
One of our favourite portrait sessions, a maternity session is so precious because it features one of the most important moments in life after your wedding. You just made a human! Wow! What can beat that?! Doing something creative and artistic for your maternity session like a milk bath is super special but also just getting out in nature or spending time inside in a well lit home will be beautiful, as long as it reflects YOU. Being a female team, we also love to capture the beauty and power of women. It can be striking to a few times in your life take some time to get in front of the camera and bring out the best of yourself, the one time to get the hollywood hair you always dreamed of and to give yourself some extra strength with beautiful make-up. The power of colour can also give you an edge. It’s all down to you, pick something that empowers you. P O RT R A I T
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FA M I LY
Approx. 1-1,5 hour of photography approx. 50 high res images Personalised online gallery for 1 year Travel cost to Dubai, Abu Dhabi included A E D
4 . 0 0 0
* T R A V E L C O S T Abu Dhabi A ED 0, Dubai A ED 3 0 0 / Rest of UAE A ED 6 0 0
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Let’s compare bellies! Fuji400h, Co ntax 645, developed by Carmencita Film Lab
THE POWER OF B/W Black and White photos gives something so calming and a sense of simplicity to a shot. You scale ever ything away and you just focus on the emotion. And that’s THE reason we go behind the camera, to capture emotions, so it all makes sense. Yippie, the stars are aligned:)
P R I N T S
P R I N TS
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K E E P S A K E
B OX E S
KRAFT BOX - 5x7 (13x18c m)
25 press printed everyday prints A E D 9 0 0 CLAMSHELL BOX - 5x7 (13x18cm)
200 press printed everyday prints A E D 3 0 0 0 400 press printed everyday prints A E D 4 0 0 0
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P R I N TS
F O R
YO U R
WA L L
PREMIUM PRINTS - available in diverse sizes
5x7 (13x18) A E D 5 0 8x12 (20x30) A E D 1 5 0 DECKLED EDGE GICLEE PRINTS
5x7 (13x18) A E D 1 0 0 8x11 (20x28) A E D 2 0 0
*minimum order AED 2000 * S H I P P I N G Shipping fees to ship your items to you are not included and will be added to your final bill. * N O T E All costs subject to VAT charges of 5%
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NEVE R
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M E M O RY,
N O BO DY
P R I C E L E S S
Have you ever had to raid the mall to find a gift for a dear friend and you can’t find anything because she has just about everything? Or you’re struggling to find a wedding gift because you’re not sure what style porcelain they like. With our easy to present gift cards, you may have just stumpled across the perfect solution to your problem! Your gift card can be anything, a small contribution to your friends wedding package, a print box, a few large prints, a contribution to an album, perhaps an engagement or bridal session before or after the wedding day. We offer complete a customised gift card so that YOU can decide what YOU’d like to gift your friends. You decide the amount and the message. We provide beautiful give-away cards in custom envelopes!
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FAQ
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I M AG E S
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YOU
I M AGE S
T I M E L E S S
F O R
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AU T H E N T I C
S O PH I S T I C AT E D
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PE O P L E .
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GET
MY
ONLINE ?
Of course! We’re hybrid photographers and use both film & digital photography as our medium and you’ll always receive your images online in high resolution. All your photographs will be available for download in the gallery for 1 year.
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WANT
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M ORE
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Ask us to bring some sample prints with us to our session. Quality is really important to us and we’ve tried a number of print companies over the years to end up with a UK artisan producer that creates beautiful prints and print boxes.
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H OW
LONG
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WAIT?
We deliver around 30 images per hour so after 1 hour session, you will be receiving around 30-50 images. The process to edit your photos after the session is set to approximately 3 weeks. This timeline is an approximate timeline as the editing process is so individual to each session. We work hard to ensure your images are top knotch before we release them.
H OW
ARE
WE
WITH
PRIC ING?
We value quality and a beautiful and a thought-through end product but we also believe in the importance of value for money. We stand behind our product 100% because we are highly trained and we use the best equipment & processes. We don’t charge ridiculous margins on our products but quality does come at a price. Because a lot of our work is film based, our prices will go up with the use of film.
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FAQ
W E
C R E AT E
I M AG E S
WHAT
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YOU
F O R
T I M E L E S S
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AU T H E N T I C
S O PH I S T I C AT E D
M EAN
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YOU
PE O P L E .
MEA N
VIDEO?
NOPE. We don’t mean video. Film is a specialisation wihtin photography (it’s got nothing to do with video) and it simply means that we photograph on analogue film rolls. Remember the old days before digital cameras came? That’s right, film rolls and lots of them. That’s what we all used to use. Today we use professional medium format film cameras that are no longer produced. One film roll contains 16 frames on our medium format camera so you can see that we use a lot of film at any given session! On your day, you will constantly see us measuring the light and changing film in the camera. Once we have finished your session, we’ll ship all the film rolls off to our Film Lab, Carmencita Lab in Spain, a professional lab that specialises in high quality film scanning. They scan the film rolls and we get the images back digitally. The real beauty is that we don’t need to edit these images, everything was already done in camera! We just adore the colors of film and we believe that sometimes you have to go back to the tried and tested ways of producing art. We live for film and we are passionate about the artistic process of film. All the images in this guide are shot on film cameras, analogue film rolls and shot in the UAE. However we haven’t left the digital world completely behind, we also use digital cameras to complement our film work.
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WO R K I N G VA LU E A RT
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BO O K
W I T H
QUA L I T Y,
PE O P L E
W H O ,
S I M P L I C I T Y,
PH OTO G R A PH Y.
We love to meet you before your book a portrait or couple session but in today’s busy lives, this is almost never possible. We can always speak on the phone or over Skype so that we get to know you as best we can, to get a feel for each other before the photoshoot. We can talk about your thoughts about the session, the clothes to wear, timings to bear in mind and preferred locations as well as the feel of film versus digital. To book your photo session, simply email us the date you have in mind and we’ll take it from there.
hello@mariasundin.com
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