What do photographers offer you?

I get alot of the times, why are photography sessions so expensive? I think "we" are more than moderately priced. Yes there are some photographers that truly feel their work is superior and is a miracle from GOD and with that in mind, you have to pay for that miracle. I however, have been trying to stay moderately priced but still offering great quality work.

After a two hour session, you should have up to 500 images to look through, this takes time. You also than select your images and start the editing process of color correcting. Even if you are the most beautiful person in the world, have the whitest teeth, no blemishes, and just the greatest everything your image still gets corrected. I go through all my images, and make sure I take all blemishes out, smooth skin, color correct your tones, enhance your eyes, sometimes add makeup if you ask for it, or a tan. I also make your teeth whiter, and if requested I can adjust personal features to your specifications. With this all in mind, I than blog your images with my watermark onto Facebook, than separately save your files without watermarks onto a CD/DVD and make a cover for your CD/DVD so you have a professionally made product to preserve your images.

After this is done, I usually post your images onto my personal website & blog.  This gives you the opportunity to share your pictures with family and friends. So now that 1 hour or 2 hour session turns into 10 hours of work for most photographers. Needless to say the fee of $125/10 hours = 12.50/ hour.  So not only are you paying for my time, talent, but you are also getting a product in your hand that you are able to print wherever your heart pleases if you so choose. I give prints out with my packages to show the quality of the lab that I use compared to your normal CVS/Walgreens/Walmart photography center's paper. This also is accountable into your session fee. So the true question is, do you feel the photograph offers you enough?


Here is an example of a color corrected images.  As you can see what it looks like out of the camera, and what it looks like when it get's onto your CD/DVD.