 Photography
Wedding Photos, Senior Photos, Event Photography, we do it all!
We take a different approach to photography than most. It always seemed unfair to me to pay a photographer hundreds of dollars to come and take wonderful photos of an event, only to have the photographer keep all the photos hostage until you paid him more money to buy a "package." It seems to me that if you pay a photographer, you should be paying him for his time and talent -- you already own the images.
We didn't expect you to come to our house to take
our
family photos! That's about as convenient as you can get!
If you hire HippieBoy Design to photograph your event we'll swoop in with our camera bags flapping in the breeze and our tripods at the ready. When the event is over, we'll do some "quick 'n dirty" editing on the photos and put them on a disk for you. You're then free to take the disk anywhere you please and get prints made at any size. If you want some images edited further or airbrushed after you see them, just let me know -- we'll work something out. If you're not comfortable getting the prints made yourself, we'll get them done for you at cost. We can even put the still photos on a DVD as a slideshow if you want, though that will cost just a little extra.
 The Price
In a nutshell, for senior photos and most other photography, we charge $75 per hour while we're at your event (that covers both the photographer and assistant), + $15 per hour travel time while we're driving to your event if it's more than, oh, 20 miles away (gotta cover gas, you know). We do ask for a 10% non-refundable retainer when you book us, please. Holidays and bookings with less than three days' notice are $80 per hour.
For weddings, we're asking about $1,250 or so, depending on how long you want us there. This might sound high, but if you check around, you'll see we're about half the cost of other photographers. If you'd like to see sample wedding photos, just CLICK HERE. Senior pictures are $75 per hour while we're taking photos. So far no one's ever told us we're overcharging...
Each circumstance is different, so we hesitate to put a firm price on things, but the prices listed above will be pretty close. Again, that might sound high, but we have equipment to maintain, and we do an awful lot of work behind the scenes that we don't charge for (the initial color correction, cropping, and editing of wedding photos, for example, often takes me anywhere from 16 to 24 working hours to complete, but we don't charge for that). You can learn more by dowloading our brochure if you want.
We very often hear "Gosh, we didn't expect so much!" We strive to give a good product for the price.
If you want references, just let me know! 712.898.5220 or e-mail me HERE.
 The Equipment
Just a quick overview: Between the three photographers we have three digital Canon SLR's, three good zoom lenses with digital stabilization, several lens filters, two tripods, some lights 'n umbrellas, a glare-reduction doodad, two Olympus and one Kodak digital "point 'n shoot" cameras, all of pretty high resolution. (One Canon is 15 megapixel, the other two are both 10 megapixel, the Olympus and Kodak are both above 7 megapixel. The last Olympus is "for emergency use only" -- it's a little 3.2 megapixel.) We also have other miscellaneous equipment hanging around, and we're always acquiring more. I use a combination of several software packages to tweak and enhance the photos, depending on the circumstances.
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