Custom photography is more of a luxury than your entry level, cookie cutter chain experience. Custom photography truly is not for everyone . . . it requires a level of commitment, investment in time and money, and forethought and planning on the part of the subject/client and requires a lager time commitment for the photographer as well.
Clients who enjoy taking a more active role in the creation of their families’ memories have the desire to have portrait art that is truly personalized. These more discerning clients have been known to budget and allot time for a custom photography session. Many clients opt for it to be a once-a-year special experience, some opt to have custom photography sessions done to record the stages of their child’s life. Having said this, it is clear that custom photography is not in everyone’s budget. It is something that most families save for to splurge on from time to time in order to memorialize their children as they really are (not posed or primped in the cookie cutter studio setting).
There is a great deal of time involved in creating high-end custom photography sessions for a client., which includes the luxury of great service, better choices, and a superb end product. The result of all of this are heirloom quality images. The time invested at the session is only a small portion of the time involved in the process.
Custom photography has been likened to purchasing a fine vehicle. To get from point A to point B, let’s face it, even a bus ride would suffice. If you want to luxuriate in a finely appointed vehicle, customizing your own experience by listening to smooth jazz while sitting in a climate controlled setting adjusted purely for your comfort in a body-hugging leather interior, perhaps that Mercedes-Benz you so desire is your cup of tea. Custom photography is much the same cup of tea. It is the Mercedes of the photography world. It is where the intangibles make the experience truly wonderful and the images themselves make the investment of money and time truly worthwhile.
Custom photography can be broken down into even more levels. There are location, studio, mixed studio/on-location, speciality location, and destination photographers. The beauty of custom photography is in the choices and in the luxury of these options. The customized service level you are sure to experience will be amazing. The knowledge that your final images are the result of someone caring about those moments so much that they take extra time ensuring that the artwork you receive is good enough to stand by with their name on it. That level of quality and commitment is all but lost in this age of “mass produced,” “mass marketed,” corporate “everyone take a number.” How great an experience it would be to be able to sit back and allow a photographer to do this highly custom work and produce images that you will most likely cherish for a lifetime!
Keep in mind more than anything that the Mercedes will never appreciate in value the way your custom portraits will. The portrait art you become invested in will no doubt increase in value and become more priceless as the years pass.
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Language courtesy of Professional Child Photographer.
by Heather
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