Our current approach is that we 'recruit' interesting people in local bars, restaurants or by referrals from friends. We want to make sure that the person trusts us and we can trust the person. For the same reason we are going to request a meeting prior to a photo shoot at a small cafe to introduce us, talk about ideas and to see how we can help each other.
Once both sides agreed on the terms and think that they want to work with each other, we will schedule an appointment and take your picture. This process can take 30 minutes or several hours depending what kind of result you want to have.
Our preferred length for an appointment is around 2h, since this gives you enough time to relax and us enough time to try several setups with you and provide you with a variety of results.
If you have special requests, please bring a couple of example shot's to the initial meeting, so that we can tell you what we can do and how likely it is that we can do something similar.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
what do we use for our pictures
Basically we use the tool we need to get the job done and don't believe that you need the latest and greatest camera on the market. It is much more important that we know what we are doing and how to archive the best results.
If you are interested in portraits up to 20x30 inch printable size we will use a modern digital Nikon camera and provide you with great results. And can provide the look you are after or tell you before that we can't do this. You just need to show us some pictures so we have an idea what kind of shoot do you expect.
If you are interested in poster sized pictures we will use Mamiya Medium format cameras or large format cameras to get this done. But for this service we have to charge extra money since this kind of film is very expensive and we have to make sure that we break even, just in case you don't like the results and wont buy any of the pictures. Not that we believe that this will be the case.
We are using photoshop similar software for our post processing, but strongly believe that you need to get the picture right in the camera. Since you can't make good stuff out of bad stuff.
If you are after this highly processed artificial look which is so modern today, sorry we can't help you there.
If you are interested in portraits up to 20x30 inch printable size we will use a modern digital Nikon camera and provide you with great results. And can provide the look you are after or tell you before that we can't do this. You just need to show us some pictures so we have an idea what kind of shoot do you expect.
If you are interested in poster sized pictures we will use Mamiya Medium format cameras or large format cameras to get this done. But for this service we have to charge extra money since this kind of film is very expensive and we have to make sure that we break even, just in case you don't like the results and wont buy any of the pictures. Not that we believe that this will be the case.
We are using photoshop similar software for our post processing, but strongly believe that you need to get the picture right in the camera. Since you can't make good stuff out of bad stuff.
If you are after this highly processed artificial look which is so modern today, sorry we can't help you there.
what do we specialize in
We are specializing in portraits of young men, women or couples since we do not want to compete with local photographs who make a living with shooting weddings, rehearsals or work for companies.
The other reason is that we want specialize in one field instead of doing everything and delivering a quality which is not up to our standard.
If you ask us to shoot a wedding for you we will forward you to friends who can do a much better job at this, since they do this every day and have a lot of experience in this particular field. This also ensures that we don't step on the toes of other people who work in this area.
What we can do for you is:
If you happen to want to have pictures taking in a field which is not listed, you can contact us we will see you we can help you.
But we also reserve us the right to refuse customers were we think we can't work with them.
The other reason is that we want specialize in one field instead of doing everything and delivering a quality which is not up to our standard.
If you ask us to shoot a wedding for you we will forward you to friends who can do a much better job at this, since they do this every day and have a lot of experience in this particular field. This also ensures that we don't step on the toes of other people who work in this area.
What we can do for you is:
- senior pictures
- graduation pictures
- engagement pictures
- portraits
- creative portraits
- passport pictures
- weddings
- architecture
- group portraits
- landscapes
If you happen to want to have pictures taking in a field which is not listed, you can contact us we will see you we can help you.
But we also reserve us the right to refuse customers were we think we can't work with them.
how do we work
welcome,
Let us introduce you to a revolutionary approach of getting beautiful pictures from us.
The normal way to make money as a photograph is to charge people a fixed rate an hour and give them the processed images as a print or in form of a file on a CD.
This fixed rate is around 150-200$ an hour + driving time for each photograph and means that it can be very expensive for a family or a young student to get nice pictures.
This approach is great if you make a living with photography or work for commercial buisnesses who can easily afford these rates.
Our approach is a bit different and we try to explain it here in a couple of simple lines,
we contact you in a bar, a cafe or just on the street, show you some of our work and give you a business card with our website and phone number. Now once you tell us that you are interested we will make a simple deal with you.
You pay us gas money (roughly 20$ in town, 50$ to Sacramento, other location are negotiable) and we take pictures of you and put them onto our website, protected by a password. Basically you get your own little gallery with us!
Now you can look at your pictures, show them to friends and this gives you these possibilities:
thank you for your time and have a nice day.
Let us introduce you to a revolutionary approach of getting beautiful pictures from us.
The normal way to make money as a photograph is to charge people a fixed rate an hour and give them the processed images as a print or in form of a file on a CD.
This fixed rate is around 150-200$ an hour + driving time for each photograph and means that it can be very expensive for a family or a young student to get nice pictures.
This approach is great if you make a living with photography or work for commercial buisnesses who can easily afford these rates.
Our approach is a bit different and we try to explain it here in a couple of simple lines,
we contact you in a bar, a cafe or just on the street, show you some of our work and give you a business card with our website and phone number. Now once you tell us that you are interested we will make a simple deal with you.
You pay us gas money (roughly 20$ in town, 50$ to Sacramento, other location are negotiable) and we take pictures of you and put them onto our website, protected by a password. Basically you get your own little gallery with us!
Now you can look at your pictures, show them to friends and this gives you these possibilities:
- you pay for the pictures you like a fee to print them
- you want to have the digital files to print them your self or use costco/rite aid/ritz since they are much cheaper than we are. So you buy the files from us in the resolution you want. This is the preferred way if you like a lot of pictures or want to have them for web pages like facebook, match.com or myspace. It makes also sense to to buy these files if you want to print them for the whole family, since this is much cheaper than to print over our store.
- if we decide to take a file from your shoot for our portfolio, well you get low resolution files for free of this particular shoot. These files are perfect for web sites or 4x5/4x6 prints
- you are happy to just have them on our website, which Is fine with us since we do this for fun. You are not forced to buy anything from us!
thank you for your time and have a nice day.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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