Paying for quality has never been an issue, we do it with everything. We will go without something till we can afford to get what we know is quality and/or looks the way we want, so that theory is no different in this case.
MLR - am I right to assume AIPP members would advertise this in some way on their website?
I've recently had pictures taken in Brisbane northside and they do on location shoots if that is something u are after? It was a scoopon but I think prices were within in range of so many others now a days. I was really happy with the number of pictures and the quality?
Not sure if I can make the company on here or not so if u like I can try and pm u the name?
I was very lucky to have found our photographer randomly, as a customer in my shop, the lucky part was that I knew that I liked her personally. To me that is a big plus. If you don't have that luxury see if you can find reviews of the photographer that you are planning on hiring to see what other peoples comments are.
Allow a couple of hundred dollars for the shoot alone. Decide if you want the shoot to happen in your home, a park or their studio and discuss with the photographer what other options for shoots they may have and how that will affect the pricing.
Allow $300 upwards to the photo package itself and then don't forget that you will probably want to purchase frames etc on top of this.
With my photographer, I've had 3 shoots now, DS's birth where she came to the hopsital just after he was born, DP got to see how she worked and he liked her too. At 10 months DS and I had a shot done for DP's Christmas present so that wasn't too expensive. Just recently we did a shoot where I dressed as Santa and she shot my legs only in the pants and DS was very happy because he knew it was Mummy but in the photo it looks like Santa. This deal was for a shoot, 10 x 4x6 photos and it cost $50. On that same day we had a family shoot as well. Seeing our photographer work with our DS and how much he loved her has sold us on her for all future shoots we do. When we left he was calling her by name, waving and even gave her a cuddle.
So after all the rambling I guess the most important thing is research, research, research. Good luck and have fun with it.
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