Thursday 17 May 2012

Before you choose a photographer......



There is an ever expanding group of those who have visited their local camera shop and have purchased a camera 'That can take amazing pictures'.

I am a firm believer that your images should be the very best possible images I can create. Newborn babies only have that adorable 'tiny baby' look for a limited number of weeks. Its called the womb shaped appearance and newborns are best photographed before they reach 2 weeks old. After this you will start to see the chubbiness of an 'older' baby arrive & they become more alert.

There are too many 'photographers' out there who are happy to charge £50 and give you all the images on a disk (can be up in the 100's & unedited!), but ask yourself, what will the quality of these images be if the photographer themselves, only value each of their own images at just a pence each?
I would far rather produce 10 perfect works of art, than hundreds of mass 'snapped' tonally flat images that, in reality, anyone with a camera, (even a camera phone now a days) can produce. Each of my images take time to create, as I ensure each 'pose' is as perfect as it possibly can be.

I spend as long as is needed in the studio with my clients, until the images are possible. If they aren't for any reason (baby may be poorly, or even going through a growth spurt) in which case I will rebook the session for free, rather than take 'second best' images.

I strive to improve my work all the time & look for images which are different from every one else’s. I LOVE being different. I want my work to stand out in a crowd. I want a client to see my work and say “that’s Kerry Gardner Photography’s photo’.

After all my sessions, I then spend several hours, perfecting further the image, until it becomes a fabulous work of art that you can proudly hang on your wall. I do offer affordable CD packages, but I only offer a selected amount of images per package, which are edited to a high standard. I also offer a product & printing service too and to which the products are to a VERY high standard & look fabulous!

If you pay cheap, then you will get cheap looking images. Flat, grey patchy backgrounds, over exposed, babies not posed correctly & unsafely!!!
Don’t put your little ones at risk with a photographer who claims they are a ‘professional’ when they are not. Whether they work from home, at clients homes or have there own shop.. always do your homework and look into their background. Have they any qualifications or experience in photography? What is there newborn work like? Have they been recommended? What are their packages like? Are they too cheap for the things their offering?

Don’t waste your money, put it towards a photoshoot that will give you gorgeous, outstanding images to look back on over years to come.

Is your baby not worth more??

Hopefully that will answer your question about my pricing and quality, the rest is up to you. I am not what they call an expensive photographer.. I am not what they call cheap… I am a professional affordable photographer based in Cheshire who specialises in newborn & children’s photography.

Kerry x x


Gorgeous little sleepy lion, Coleton! "ROARRRR" hehe x 

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