Vision Studios Photography

I'm looking forward to shooting my friend David and his lovely fiance' Pam's Wedding this Saturday. We're heading down to Alabama tomorrow. Tune in monday for their wedding composite.

Thanks
-Andy

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This last weekend was crazy busy for both my wife and I. Two weddings on Saturday! Not only were we busy shooting weddings it was also our wedding anniversary. I just want to say that Rachael and I have been married for six years now. Every day I thank God for her being in my life. Sharing tears, laughs and the little things that make us smile and enjoy each other as a couple. She's been my biggest critic, my best friend and my biggest fan. She supports me when I've been at some pretty low times and even when I'm at my best. She's made me a better person within these past six years. Thank you for being my wife and best freind through everything we've been through and shared.

I love you
-Andy

After being hired to shoot panoramas by a local college here in Cleveland, TN. I have had the opportunity to shoot dozens of these shots on their campus. Here are a few samples for you to enjoy.

Humanities Building

Walker Arena

I'm looking forward to Jessica and Kyle's engagement session tomorrow. They are just a sweet couple I think everyone will enjoy. We finalized their locations and ideas. This couple is really creative and I believe the session will blow everyone away. Tune in monday for theis photos.

Thanks
-Andy

This past weekend was amazing. Prophet Gary Brooks and Apostle Bret Wade were invited by International House of Fire. It is the Church's 8th birthday and I am ecstatic to be part of that tight group of family.

Tune in the next couple of days and see the slideshows from the three day event.

Thanks
-Andy

I decided to start this customer education series with one of the topics I see very often–customers wanting full resolution images on a DVD, and their photographers not “including” it in the package or not offering it at all. This topic can be explained from several different angles (e.g., profitability, reputation and copyright amongst others). First of all, if your photographer does this, be glad, as this means he/she cares about the future of his business and images and will be around for a while. So below are some points you may consider the next time you are presented with this situation.

Profitability:
We, photographers, are image makers, and our revenue comes from selling images that you can proudly hang on your wall. If you are expecting your photographer to “give” you a CD with the high resolution images, then you are expecting him to forefit any revenue from your session or event. How much longer do you expect him/her to stay in business while giving away his/her main source of income.

Reputation:
This one is entirely particular to my studio, and I know some other good photographers do this similarly. We give our hearts and souls in all the sessions we photograph, learning the craft, retouching images, and all other aspects that go into a final product, therefore giving images on a DVD opens the door for a client to print and possibly display and image that we have no control of the final product. When a DVD with images is purchased from us, we do not allow anything bigger than an 8×10 to be printed from it, nor do we allow to public display of these images without our authorization. This is mainly protecting our reputation as image makers. If a client intends to print anything bigger than an 8×10, then it’s probably going in somebody’s wall, on a generic frame, without my signature, my retouching, and more than likely without our printing standards, and this is not acceptable. No amount of money collected during the sale of a DVD is worth a badly printed picture of your work hung on somebody’s wall for the next 20 years.

In our studio when an image is purchased for a wall portrait, we retouch the image to perfection and print it with labs that understand our standards, and if it’s not perfect, we don’t deliver it until it is. Our eyes are trained to see things in the images you may not see when printing your 8×10 at Wal Mart. We print on the best paper in the industry, frame it with acid free mats and non-glare glass, and frames that compliment the images, but most of all with a signature in silver ink that proudly represents an original finished piece of art, and I hope that’s the way you look at your photographer’s work and respect it as such.

Until next post.

Hello everyone…

After hearing about issues between photographers’ rules and methodologies and customers’ apathy towards them, or lack of acceptance, I’ve decided to start a new category on my blog which will house a series of posts dedicated to educating clients. I’ve seen countless posts in other wedding websites where brides or brides-to-be comment about a particular photographer’s method of doing things, and response after response the aggravation grows, and I just think if the clients understood why certain things are done the way they are done, this wouldn’t happen.

That being said, after it’s all said and done, the customer and client may still not agree. This is perfectly fine, as we live in a free market, and if an agreement is not reached, then the next step would be to move on to the next vendor that fits your particular demands. The topics I will be explaining will be very much directly related to my studio, and my method of doing things. Even though I share these views with a lot of my colleagues, you are not forced to understand my point, but indeed entitled to an explanation.

So lookout for these Customer Educational posts every week or so as I am sure you will find them interesting and informational. I will try to keep them short and to the point.