Why I care so much about the quality of my client’s images in the beginning, middle, and end.

A recent client of mine suggested that I blog about this specific topic because it was a problem for her in the past.  She said it was actually the reason why she hired me! Well, I’m taking her advice and blogging about it. What is it you ask? It’s that I like to see the quality of my images and products from beginning, middle and end. I do it not for myself, but 100000% for my clients. They put a lot of trust in me to capture their family/children’s/wedding memories and to do it well. I ensure quality (as best as I can) in the beginning by ensuring that my clients are using a photographer that is professional by educating myself in conferences, workshops, and books to really learn the craft, that my clients can trust that I can be consistent in my work and images. In the beginning also in having good, reliable professional camera gear.  Middle in that I take great care in making sure each photo shoot is a success in lighting, posing, exposure, composition etc. Middle in that I see that my client’s photos are edited professionally and with care.  And finally (the point I’m really getting at) is the end product.  Because I take so much care into what goes into the images, I like to see that they are printed with the upmost and professional quality there is. I do this not only for me, but mainly for my clients! Why should they go to all the time and effort of coordinating the family’s schedules, getting their hair done, making sure everyone is dressed to perfection, and taking the time to have their photos done just to have the end product printed very poorly? That’s not fair to them!

I posted this on Facebook a while ago, and my client suggested I post it on my blog. Because the exact same thing happened to her with a previous photographer. My client’s previous photographer took beautiful images and gave her the disk without offering any professional printing services. So my client took her images to one of those big box stores and the prints were so dark they were almost unrecognizable. It upset her that she paid so much, and took so much time and effort in having her photos taken to have the end product turn out unfavorable. The photographer (not my client’s previous photographer) who posted this photo on facebook Brittany Kallstrom  said “A past client of mine took her disc to walmart to get some images printed, and this is how her walmart print turned out, not that great is it? She then came to me and ordered a canvas, I can tell you now the canvas looks NOTHING like the walmart print (I will be taking a picture later of the canvas to compare). Yes disc are great for sharing pictures on social networking sites, and having them on your computer, but when it comes down to it I wouldn’t recommend printing a large print from walmart with the photos on it 🙁 I can recommend a few better places to print from but they wont be as good as ordering prints from your photographer
All in all you get what you pay for.”

So in conclusion, it’s all about quality over quantity. I’m so glad all of my clients agree! Also, just because certain places offer printing services like canvases, prints, etc doesn’t mean that you’ll be getting professional quality. Trust me, there’s a ginormous difference! So that is why I care so much about the quality of images my clients receive in the beginning, middle, and end.