JarvieDigital Photography

I’m not to into taking family portraits…
There’s a lot of stressing out going on in portraits.

Feeding Each other STRESS

Parents get stressed because they want things to go perfectly.
When kids get grumpy or distracted… the parents start to freak.
Which in turn makes the kids freak out more… which in turn…
I’m sure you get the picture.

Not “Good” Money

Besides family pictures aren’t really good money (comparatively)

It’s my opinion that the price structure for family pictures was based on buying prints.
This mindset of wanting mainly prints is largely disappearing for most families.

Prints aren’t as “big” as photographers would like

Heck I personally would rather have the disc than a print on my wall… specially since I move more often and I use blogs, websites and facebook mostly and I can print stuff up myself just fine.

So people don’t want as many prints but the sitting fee for portraits has largely stayed the same.
Then there’s the people who think that because a CD costs $1 (which it doesn’t more like .15 cents) that charging them $100 for a CD is next to highway robbery.

Personally I don’t like being in charge of printing… I want to be paid for what I do (photograph) I don’t want to push products (like prints, albums etc)

I understand that the market and the abundance of new photographers will push prices down for photographers as some raise their prices (like I do all the time)

Not For me

All I’m saying is Traditional Family Picture sessions are not worth it for me.

I put up with boring weddings because they’re a lot of money and they’re very important.

Go to a studio for the traditional Shots

But i think if people are looking for good prices for family pictures they should go to studios, that’s their thing.

The Exception

That being said I have actually had a couple of families that were all right and enjoyable experiences
And in down times I’m sure I’d say yes because the money is nice… I’m just saying I don’t like it much.
But I like a “real” job…. way way less!

I know that there seems to be a decent amount of people checking up on this blog.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell those that use twitter that they can follow me there:

• Learn about what I’m up to…
• My photo shoots.
• Random photo trip opportunities.
• Hear about when I post new stuff.
• I also post web suggestions and observations that focus often on photography.

It’s all great fun.

twitter.com/jarvie

Since I already did it in one place It’s tough to do it again.

So if you want to see some pictures of what I did last month and recently then take a look.

Some of them are linked to corresponding galleries

Portrait Galleries - Non Wedding Related

So what should I do?
I’ve done about 40 shoots since I’ve posted these last pictures. Most of them were during my annual Charity Shoot.

I can’t possibly do a post for each shoot, Besides I’m supposed to be editing about 5 photo shoot right now.

Any suggestions on what I should do so that people can still be seeing some of the new work?

Here it is… the beginning of a great friendship. No longer to I need depend on gallery after gallery of pictures of what I’ve been doing on my photography site.The neat thing about this is that wordpress allows you to install your blog onto your own website.
Something I didn’t see too much of on the other popular sites.
Installing it to my own site did a couple of things… it brings traffic to my site and not just wordpress.com but it also removes the 50mb limit for pictures.

Which will fill up fast considering this Blog is all about pictures.