Venture Photography

MrBacrylicman

We have got in to making original art (yes brushes, paint, skill, time) portraits as our 'venture'. Its very personal, results are amazing and price is competely reasonable. Typically at the moment a 60x60cm canvas in rich acrylics say 300 pounds. When I compare with Venture prices for churned out photos what we are doing is so much better, and will last for ever! you can email me if you want know specifics or more pud700t at gmail.com

Benzanna

goingtothedogs wrote: »

Hiya - I used to work at Venture, calling people up to tell them they'd been 'selected' to have a free session (lucky them! They were selected on the amount of income they'd written down on their competition entry form).

My advice is just hold your nerve and take the smallest photo (you could get it blown up?).

Plus, a word of warning! When customers were left alone in the room to discuss, the salespeople would leave the cctv on and watch them talking in the room upstairs. They’d then use the information to encourage them to buy.

I'm not sure if they do this at all Ventures, but I was truly shocked and felt like I was on some kind of undercover dodgy dealers documentary!

Needless to say I only worked there a month…

I've known 2 Venture photographers (my ex and his best friend) it really depends on which studio you go to, as it's a franchise and every manager runs their studio differently.
There's no way the guys I know would have watched people talking on CCTV and used it in viewings.

Benzanna

Depends - if you're spending a lot they can normally throw in a freebie.

They're not on commission but they do have high targets to reach (no bonus or anything for reaching them - just a pat on the back )

yummymummy29

best advice is to not have them taken to begin with, use a local photographer and always ask what the prices of reorders are (theres no use having a free sitting when the reorders are £1000's of pounds!) good luck!