£20 (£15 certain areas) couples photoshoot! (Evoucher available)

nat_urally

was looking online for a couples photo shoot (OH has been nagging about one for ages..im sure its meant to be the other way round!bless him) found a £25 one on Buyagift http://www.buyagift.co.uk/Pampering/Couples-Photoshoot-BR-10515897.aspx?cm_sp=%20Product_List-_-1-_-Product_Number&cm_re=Product_Number-_-1-_-Product_List

But there is a £5 off voucher floating around https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3688387 Taking it to £20! available in 114 locations. so bound to be one near you!

If you are lucky enough to live in any of these locations:

Avon (South West) - Bristol Glamorganshire (Wales) - Cardiff Greater London (London) - Oxford Circus Greater London (London) - White City Lancashire (North) - Manchester Strathclyde (Scotland) - Glasgow Tyne & Wear (North) - Newcastle West Midlands (Midlands) - Birmingham

there is an even better shoot for £20 (with voucher £15) :j http://www.buyagift.co.uk/Pampering/Couples-Makeover-Photoshoot-Session-Special-Offer-BR-10516282.aspx?cm_sp=%20Product_List-_-1-_-Product_Number&cm_re=Product_Number-_-1-_-Product_List

can try delivery, but i wasnt sure i wanted to risk it being so close, so i have printed an evoucher, (saves on delivery cost i suppose!) then you can present it however you like

Hope this helps someone :T

pinkteapot

Can I just suggest that people are careful who they give 'photoshoot' gift vouchers to. The package normally includes one free print. However, the studio will take lots of fab photos and the recipient will be brought in to look through them and then ordering additional prints etc is enormously expensive. Only recommended for people who (a) can afford to buy the extra prints afterwards or (b) can resist a hard sell.

We're giving someone in my family a photoshoot for Christmas but we got the photographer's print price list beforehand and as well as the shoot are giving them a product gift voucher that will cover one large canvas or 4-5 smaller prints, so they can choose what they want.

Antoninus

pinkteapot speaks the truth, a shoot + print voucher isn't the most amazing gift in the world, since the recipient will always have to fork out more for extra prints.

I run a photography company, and this offer doesn't look too amazing. We're pretty good - even if I do say so myself - and our prices are only £25 for a shoot and print normally, and we requently run really good offers.

Another problem with an offer like that is that you never know what kind of photographer you'll end up with. Many aren't very good, and many do turn on the hard sell.

My advice is: Never select a photographer based purely upon price - let alone one whose work you've never seen. Browse the local photographers near you, find out their print prices, and weigh up the options.

YUMMYMUMMY89

i second that pinkteapot. i am a photographer and always display prices upfront. i am a low priced photographer and offer shoots from £40 with a minimum 20 images on a disc - a much better way of working. yes, the company will supply you with gorgeous images and try to sell you them for a tidy three-figure sum which is ridiculous.

Antoninus

Are those 20 images printable? If so, that would be very, very, very cheap (if the images are good!).

pinkteapot

My mum paid around £600 to one of those studio companies for one large canvas, a large print, and a few smaller prints. That was after having a free shoot and 7x5 print session. :eek:

Antoninus

Big canvases are expensive to produce (done properly - most people are used to the kind of cheap tat that you find on eBay and coupon websites) but none the less, £600 is madness.

pinkteapot

I appreciate that decent canvases are expensive. Just highlighting the costs at the big chains such as that in the OP. Personally I prefer framed prints to canvases anyway but then I'm not very modern in my tastes.

The photographer we're using for the gift I mentioned is someone I used to work with who retrained a few years ago as a portrait photographer, specialising in babies/families. We're giving a £100 product voucher in addition to the shoot which will either buy one canvas (around 15x20" IIRC) or five 8x10 prints. This is considerably cheaper than the big chain my mum went to, and in line with the print prices my wedding photographer charged last year.

Thing is, the photographer can't get by on the cost of the shoot. If you think about it, they have the 1 or 2 hour shoot but then there is a huge amount of time spent processing the images afterwards; digital touch-ups, organising them etc. I imagine they need to be making three figures per customer for the business to work...