Choosing A Photographer

An interesting thing happened today at our studio, and I wanted to share it with all of you.

A mother came in today to schedule her daughter's senior portrait session. After speaking with her for a while, she confessed that she had already had her daughter's senior portraits done once. She went to a "backyard" type of photographer from the area (this is a term the industry uses to describe an individual who buys a camera and thinks they're a professional photographer.) She went there because she thought it would be more affordable. She said she was very disappointed in how her daughter's portraits turned out. She said that after looking at the poses and getting no satisfaction after speaking to the photographer, she walked away from the whole ordeal, and forfeited the money she spent on the session fee.

She realizes that she will probably be spending more at our studio, but her comment was: "I guess you get what you pay for."

I totally agree with her philosophy and live by that statement. Not only in photography, but in LIFE! You get exactly what you pay for! Keep that in mind when selecting your senior portrait photographer. It doesn't matter how great of a deal you get if you hate your portraits!

Walter has been involved in professional photography for many years. He has a Masters and Craftsman degree in photography from the Professional Photographers of America. He is also a Certified Professional Photographer of Ohio. These degrees can only be attained through education, service and print competition in the industry. What qualifications does your selected photographer have?

The Barrett Family

Tuesday we had the privilege of photographing the Barrett Family. Matt Barrett is our state representative, and they wanted to have some portraits taken at the State House in Columbus, Ohio. We have been photographing the family for years, but this presented itself as a unique opportunity for us!

We really had fun touring the State House with Matt's personally guided tour and the kids were great to work with! These are just a couple of the poses we took of the family that we liked. Enjoy!

New Blog Site!

Hey everyone! If you're an avid reader of the blog, (and I hope you are) you'll notice that it has changed.

We moved to a new site for blogging, because the old site was horrible to work with! This one I hope will be much better and faster to use, so hopefully I'll be able to blog more often!

The downside is, if you were on the blog site before, they won't be transferring over to this site, so I guess I'm basically starting new. But look for more stuff to come more frequently! Later!
Susan

session on an island....

Thursday we went over to Middle Bass Island to take portraits of Susan. She goes to Elyria High School. Her family has had a summer home there for 20 years, and there were lots of neat locations Susan wanted to use in her session. We had so much fun! We photographed her right up until sunset and got some amazing shots!

We photographed everything from Lonz Winery in the background to an old abandoned brick building we found. We also got some beautiful nature photos in between. It’s lots of fun to photograph outside of your everyday environment. Keeps Walter on his toes! Thanks, Susan!