Shocking Prices!!

Yellowbug

dizziblonde wrote: »

Some photographers do price themselves out of the market though - I know when a relative got married recently it cost them less to get a photographer they'd known from being at school to travel 5 hours away, stay in a hotel overnight, do the whole prep/wedding/reception coverage thing and the like - than it cost for any of their local-based ones to do it.

For me the photos aren't a massive part of the day to be honest - I'm never going to be the world's most photogenic person (one of the reasons I took photography up as a hobby was to get to be on the nicer side of the camera and avoid being in shots), so whatever's taken I'm liable to cringe over and only ever see the flaws in. As long as I get a couple of nice shots of me and the oh that's all I'm really after... but I'm odd like that!

totally agree with you, there is one photographer round here who everyone knows is really really expensive, and most people I know wouldnt even ask him cus they expect him to give a crazy quote lol

oh and being behind the camera is much better
i love taking photos of everyone and everything (very rare for me to be without my camera) but when it gets turned round and its someone taking photos of me Im not keen lol
I dont mind them taking the photos provided I dont have to see the results

Arthurian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimiDBAK2wA "wedding cake"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ff13zZ0h0k "wedding flowers"

Dave101t

im driving myself and my bride to the wedding in may car.
we are having a nice M&S cake for the wedding cake.
a friend is doing photos, another is doing video.
nice and cheap (great for me), but also exactly what she wants (great for her)

karen_newcastle

Yellowbug wrote: »

i asked where do you get them from?

i have looked at a lot of places, and seen a lot of books printed by different places and ive not seen any that cost over £200 to be printed, so wanted to know where they were from

if youd rather pm me with the details then thats fine by me
im just interested to see the difference....as most of the £50 ish ones I have seen have been very nice indeed

You are talking about photobooks....I am talking about albums. They are 2 different products. Photobooks are available through places like bobbooks or Blurb for under £50 usually. They are consumer products and fab value for money. But they have paper pages like an annual.

My digital storybook albums have stiff pages and are a much higher quality item and will last a lot longer then a photobook. The printing is way better quality than with a photobook and the albums I use are not available to the general public.

Mme.Hibou

I fancy an Aspinal of London photo album.

lindaatno9

karen_newcastle wrote: »

My digital storybook albums have stiff pages and are a much higher quality item and will last a lot longer then a photobook. The printing is way better quality than with a photobook and the albums I use are not available to the general public.

This sounds much the same as fabric. I have fab suppliers which aren't available to the public. How I work is, I charge my fee, the customer gets the fabric for what I get the fabric for. I make no mark up on that. Call me silly but I find it terrible that someone is expected to pay a considerable mark up on a product and then a fee on top. !!! you can guess, I'll never be rich. I do love my job however.

anotherbigspender

Yellowbug wrote: »

i asked where do you get them from?

i have looked at a lot of places, and seen a lot of books printed by different places and ive not seen any that cost over £200 to be printed, so wanted to know where they were from

if youd rather pm me with the details then thats fine by me
im just interested to see the difference....as most of the £50 ish ones I have seen have been very nice indeed

If you are looking for a matted album (i.e. a traditional photo album where the images are mounted into the pages) then google Loxley, Jorgensen or Queensbury. Beautiful stuff.

If you want digitally printed pages then look for Graphistudio - again a very high quality product that will last you a lifetime and won't fade away like its cheaper imitations.

Lorne

I've read this thread with a lot of interest. I've recently got married and my husband is a wedding photographer so I see the situation from both sides, wanting value for money and making a living from photography. My husband generally shoots a wedding a week, can spend a whole week working on the photos and another day once the pictures have been chosen designing the album, he works 40+ hours per wedding and the cost price of an album is usually way over £250 so he doesn't make an enormous amount from a wedding considering the stress he puts himself through!

On the positive side, I didn't have to pay our photographers as it was a colleague of hubby's and he shot her wedding the following month!