Had a great weekend wedding down in Georgetown Kentucky, got the pictures all processed in record time. It was a great day for the weather, a little cool but not cold, but when you are working that’s always a good thing. We are geared up to handle an very busy spring wedding season, and the Senior Portraits and Boudoir sessions that are lining up.
Since we posted about the Boudoir sessions last week we’ve actually gotten a lot of interest in them from brides and others.
I’ve added a preferred vendor section onto the site also for local vendors that brides and others might find useful and there still is room for a few more to be added.
Business Notes:
This week due to a demand, we added a Store to our site where you can purchase some artistic prints. Right now it only has a few on it, but we’ll add more. Check it out at http://starrphotos.net/store Let us know what you think!!
Due to one person we have had a policy change in regards to personal checks, While we’ve always had a returned check policy we got our first bad check for a wedding since we’ve been doing weddings. It was for a deposit on a wedding date that was within 3 weeks of the booking on a Friday night. Looking at what other photographers are doing we have rethought our policy on personal checks, we are not going to penalize everyone for this one person, however, we would prefer a bank cashiers check or money order for the final balance but understand that does not work for everyone and we will continue to accept personal checks. For a wedding the is within a month (very rare) we will require the deposit to have cleared our bank. Just a side note, we do prosecute for bad checks plus fees. If you have issues let us know and we can work something out.
QUICK TIP:
This week I’m going to include a QUICK tip for taking photos in low light levels, We do this at weddings or even out and about when the light is not as bright as we would like. It’s great for shooting birds with a big zoom or flowers in the shade without a tri-pod. What you do if your camera allows it for it is to set for a burst, rapid fire or continuous shooting mode, and fire off several shots, the idea is that during one of the exposures you hopefully have held the camera still enough for one shot to turn out! Does it work? For me it works pretty good and some of the blurs are even useful for backgrounds, etc. You can also change your ISO to 400 to even 1600 and beyond depending on the camera you have, you get a little more grain but sometimes the trade off is worth it.
Since we posted about the Boudoir sessions last week we’ve actually gotten a lot of interest in them from brides and others.
I’ve added a preferred vendor section onto the site also for local vendors that brides and others might find useful and there still is room for a few more to be added.
Business Notes:
This week due to a demand, we added a Store to our site where you can purchase some artistic prints. Right now it only has a few on it, but we’ll add more. Check it out at http://starrphotos.net/store Let us know what you think!!
Due to one person we have had a policy change in regards to personal checks, While we’ve always had a returned check policy we got our first bad check for a wedding since we’ve been doing weddings. It was for a deposit on a wedding date that was within 3 weeks of the booking on a Friday night. Looking at what other photographers are doing we have rethought our policy on personal checks, we are not going to penalize everyone for this one person, however, we would prefer a bank cashiers check or money order for the final balance but understand that does not work for everyone and we will continue to accept personal checks. For a wedding the is within a month (very rare) we will require the deposit to have cleared our bank. Just a side note, we do prosecute for bad checks plus fees. If you have issues let us know and we can work something out.
QUICK TIP:
This week I’m going to include a QUICK tip for taking photos in low light levels, We do this at weddings or even out and about when the light is not as bright as we would like. It’s great for shooting birds with a big zoom or flowers in the shade without a tri-pod. What you do if your camera allows it for it is to set for a burst, rapid fire or continuous shooting mode, and fire off several shots, the idea is that during one of the exposures you hopefully have held the camera still enough for one shot to turn out! Does it work? For me it works pretty good and some of the blurs are even useful for backgrounds, etc. You can also change your ISO to 400 to even 1600 and beyond depending on the camera you have, you get a little more grain but sometimes the trade off is worth it.
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