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Professional Photography? [Midlothian VA Lifestyle Photographer]

 

Professional Photography Questions?

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This weekend I had a great class with a bunch of women and their cameras. I love teaching (spent my life doing so thus far), and I love photography from back in high school and film days. Any time I get the chance to teach others about photography and how to use their cameras, it’s a good day.  Saturday was no exception.  More on all of that later and how you can sign up for the next class coming soon. Stay tuned here or contact me now using my contact form  ^up there!

Then, on my way home I got a facebook message that I  responded to on my phone. I now realize why many photographers choose not to answer fb messages, it’s easy to get lost in them.  Not to mention that “other folder.” Do you know about that? I had a LOT of people trying to get a hold of me in that way, I just never knew. Sadly, for them and for myself, I missed their inquiries.  Back to this recent occurrence.  After it was said and done, I realized that as a profession, even though we are able to explain our ways to clients who are sitting in front of us, there are a few things we need to spell out for the general public…in case they just don’t know-even before an inquiry.  I mean, they’re not the photographer, so our terms aren’t necessarily common to them.

Sessions with Tamara Henion Photography are print productive when you choose from any of my three specialty options:  Senior, Wedding or Portrait.  While each of these sessions are booked independently from the other, with each commission I help you from the very beginning decide on where you want to showcase fine art photography in your home, and we organize your session with those goals in mind. Do I offer digital files? Sure, but they’re not the focus of my clients’ desires. Beautiful portraits to display in their homes for generations, is.

There’s always an exception:  at select times throughout the year, I offer mini-sessions. Minis are different and actually do include digital images.  They are available only  to families, children and couples (no weddings or newborns).

The next question quickly comes: Is there a difference between a mini session and a full session?  YES, and they are grand differences. You will  get professional quality images either way, but besides that, there are few  similarities.  Time, outfits, connection, lighting, grouping, and quantity of files are all  limited by default of time during a mini-session which means less opportunity. Oh, just thinking about it makes it hard to just sit here and type;  regular  sessions are so full of life, getting to know each other which is important in front of the camera, finding new little places with delicious light, taking our time with artistic and genuine posing, using some props or changing outfits up to make one session appear to take place at different times and in different places are just so special!  You leave after 90 mins to an hour, or more, of a full session a bit worn out possibly, but also on a high with anticipation of viewing your large  gallery of images soon.  However,  minis are a good way for those clients who need just a few images or  when budgets are tight but great images are important.  Currently, my mini sessions are 15 minutes and are the only sessions I do that include {5} digital images.  Because I book them back to back all on one day, time constraints limit everything else; they’re both easier and more difficult for me to do for those reasons.

Here are a couple of important  terms to note when looking for a photography session to fit your needs:

When a session includes a GALLERY of images, that is like  walking through an art gallery and viewing the photographs on the walls that you have not purchased.

When a session includes an album of  DIGITAL IMAGES for printing and sharing, those images belong to you-you’ve purchased them with your session.

So, if you’re not sure, ask your photographer if you’re receiving a viewing gallery or a set of digital images that belong to you for printing and sharing.

Of course, all of this will be made clear on the contract you sign with your photographer; this is just to get you started as you search for your sessions.

I hope that helps you when thinking about exactly what you want from your photographer and photography session. They say, there’s a photographer for everyone. I’d love to talk to you about your next session. If you have any other questions about photography, leave a comment and  I’ll be happy to answer!

 

 

 

Portrait Minis last only 15 minutes

 

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[WEDDINGS]

You’re planning your wedding!! Congratulations~I am so excited with each bride I meet; it’s like she’s the only bride in the world! For more than 2 decades, I’ve loved love-and where better to document love than your wedding day?   I love  partnering with  brides who so excited about being  married for the rest of their lives.  If you are looking for a photographer who is there as your forever begins, I would be honored to be a part of your wedding day.  Other than giving you timeless photos that tell the story of your wedding day, I am well adverse to helping you plan and piece together your day just like you want it-even when you don’t know what that is just yet.  I love working along side of you, and I offer planning with either of my wedding packages as a simple add-on. For your wedding day, we will carefully plan out your photos in ways to maximize time so that you can enjoy your family and friends, and mostly one another. Many of my weddings have a short timeline, and I’ve learned to work around what some may see as a default. I adore keeping traditional first looks as the bride makes her first steps toward her groom who waits for her hand in marriage-there’s something really special about that moment.   If you love the idea of time alone with your groom before the wedding, that is a beautiful time for you and a wonderful opportunity for getting some images of just the two of you before the hustle and bustle of the day.  Either way, we will be sure those plans are built around the end product of photos to recall just how beautiful you were as a bride, how wonderful your groom looked and the precious memories made on your wedding day:  to have and to behold wedding photos you will be proud to display for generations.

Specializing in smaller, shorter and intimate weddings.

Choose from a digital package or a print package starting from $1350.

Contact me for more details!     Email:  info@atTamara.com

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Wedding Portraits Midlothian Bon Air Church Richmond VA

 

 

[NEWBORNS & BABIES]

 The Newborn Experience -I come to your home and record those most precious and fleeting beginnings.   Too often the earliest days at home leave nothing more than a blur in a new mom’s memory, understandably so. I want to be sure you have the opportunity to be Mommy at those times, but yet hold the memories just as close for forever as you do your new baby for just a time. In the most leisurely and relaxed way, we go through your day at home and take photos along the way. Your baby is just perfect, and ordinary things such as feeding, rocking, cuddling, sleeping, yawning, stretching all deserve a place as you begin a new repertoire of photos you will be proud to display for generations.  As quickly as your new bundle grows and changes, you’ll want to add in a couple of sessions before his/her first birthday, too, and that’s just as special and possibly even more fun to do!  It’s a big year, Mom-make the time to be sure these moments hang on your walls or stay in your books forever.  Email:  info@atTamara.com

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[CHILDREN]

Because they grow up!

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Booking a newborn, baby or children session is simple and you can secure your date with a $150 retainer fee. There’s no pressure to buy any package as all my products are offered a la carte’, however, for those clients who like to save a little and still have several print choices,  you will love my Your Package Your Way option  with  up to 4 groupings of my most popular products to pick and choose from.

  Email:  info@atTamara.com

CLASS OF ONE [YOU] Senior Photography

It’s most amazing that I have been in a place over the past 25 years to include my love for teenagers in my life. How special, then, to be able to photograph them as they enter their junior and senior high school years and prepare for their ‘big move’  to what’s next. Because it’s important for each student to have wonderful, traditional yet fresh and fun, images to remember their last years in high school by, I offer both mini and regular Class Of One sessions starting at only $150.  I begin scheduling Class of One sessions in a student’s junior year and as late as right after graduation. If you want to extend this Class of One offer to college graduations-that’s just as wonderful and I can’t wait!  Senior photography you will be proud to display for generations!

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CONTACT ME TO SCHEDULE YOUR SESSION. Email:  info@atTamara.com

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*prices subject to change

The Tree Test [Dear Photographer] [My Story]

 

The Tree Test, Lying and Planning

The Tree Test: ever heard of it? Take a look here and tell me what you find out. Is it accurate of who you are?

I won’t tell you the tree that grabbed me and sucked me in instantaneously, but I will share a little of what it said about me.

Two phrases stand out:

” You know what you want, and you’re not afraid to go get it.

and

“The only thing you require from people is that they’re straight with you. You are ready for the truth.”

First:

Day in and day out, year old and year new, I would have zero issues with hundreds of students unless and until they lied to me. I found this truth to be unwavering in myself: I can deal with anything that’s straight forward.  Combine that with the fact that I can always (almost always, I have been blindsided-and betrayed-a few times in life by ‘friends’) sense  dishonesty and life can be quite interesting in  light of a lie. I don’t know if that is a blessing or a curse. Sometimes, ignorance is really bliss, isn’t it?

Proverbs  6:16-19  tells us the Lord hates lying, too.

There are six things which the LORD hates,
            Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:

      Haughty eyes,

a lying tongue,

            And hands that shed innocent blood,

      A heart that devises wicked plans,
            Feet that run rapidly to evil,

      A false witness who utters lies,
            And one who spreads strife among brothers.

And one more  thing I will share from the tree test:

Second:

There are 3 of us business owners who meet together each week. We encourage, we test, we cheer on and we empathize with one another. This week one thing that came up, as it has before, is the opportunity of sitting under a strong personality in the business who is a huge success and has been for more than 20 years.  My friends says, “I’d be scared to death knowing what’s coming and I’d cry.”

I say, “I would know what’s coming and am ready for it.”

She says, “Then I’d cry for you!”

I LOVE how different we are. She’s a strong, wonderful woman who just doesn’t approach things the same way as I do. And what’s wrong with that?

I’m a firm believer in learning the right way to do things before I do them the wrong way. Then, when I do them the wrong way, I’m determined to take what I learned through hard knocks and share them with others who, like me, are ready to hear them.

This photography business came upon me backwards. Instead of planning to build a business, I was thrown into it with requests to shoot a few weddings. Because I had not looked into what it means to run a small photography business, and because the urgency of the moment was focused on learning more about new cameras and the technicalities I was falling short it (hello digital photography, goodbye film=YIKES), I was already overloaded in work on a shortage of available time.

Now, I teach others how to use their digital camera and what is the bare necessities when presenting yourself as a professional photographer.

Coming up next week, I’m meeting with another 7-10 photographers who are trying to figure out some of the business side of being a professional photographer. While they’re at different places in their ventures, they’ve all realized that pricing is something they need some help in figuring out. You know what? The ones who are doing that before setting things up are the real winners. Like anything in life, it’s more profitable and less painful to figure things out before you’re posed with an otherwise preventable problem. I have been SO busy figuring out everything  over the past 3 1/2 years that had I made a concentrated effort of what I needed to know and where I was going to head, I would be 2 years ahead of where I am now. I’m not saying there’s no value in life as it happens; the wise will glean from all experiences. I am saying there’s a best way.

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence and honest purpose, as well s perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”

Thomas A. Edison

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Pricing [Professional Photography Midlothian VA]

 

~PORTRAITS~

Thank you for your interest in Tamara Henion Photography.

For nearly 20 years, I taught my students to do learn well and perform their best in everything.

Personal Integrity cannot be emphasized.

I value the work I do for you as much as I hope you will ,and I work hard to that end.

Life is busy and with every change, it seems to become even more so.

I realize what a treasure the time and planning is that together we will  put into your photography session;

from the first email, to our initial meeting, the session itself and when you hold your priceless portraits in your hands and hang them on your walls.

Truly, your investment is timeless: photographs that you’ll proudly display for generations to come.

Clients may choose from a price and product list a la carte, or save up to 25% by putting together a Your Package Your Way collection.

Tamara Henion Photography will not double-book sessions and will turn down all other inquiries upon receipt of a

contract signature and payment of a  non-refundable retaining fee; I will protect your date and time on my calendar.

There is no minimum purchase and no ‘must buy’ packages.

Many clients do make use of THP’s unique packaging set up (Your Package Your Way)

  because they have exactly what they want to order and at a savings of up to 25% from a la carte’.

More detailed pricing can be found HERE.

~WEDDINGS~

Weddings are a wonderful part of Tamara Henion Photography.

Many years of wedding planning help make any bride’s day flow from behind my camera with ease.

Get it all including a co-photographer, 8 hours coverage and more with an all-inclusive wedding collection from $2500.

Intimate weddings less than 4  hours are just over $1350 for all the digital files.

Please inquire for more details.

Beautiful Bride [Midlothian VA Wedding Photographer]

For more than 2 decades, I’ve loved love-and where better to document that than a bride on her wedding day?   I love young brides who are most excited about being married.  If you are looking for a photographer who is there as your forever begins, I would be honored to be a part of your wedding day.  Other than giving you timeless photos that tell the story of your wedding day, I am well adverse to helping you plan and piece together your day just like you want it-even when you don’t know what that is just yet.  I love working along side of you, and I offer planning with either of my wedding packages as a simple add-on. For your wedding day, we will carefully plan out your photos in ways to maximize time so that you can enjoy your family and friends, and mostly one another. We will be sure those plans are built around the end product of photos to recall just how beautiful you were as a bride, how wonderful your groom looked and the precious memories made from sunrise until you drive away as the new Mrs. and Mr. Specializing in smaller, shorter and intimate weddings. Choose from a digital package or a print package starting from $1350.  Contact me for more details!  <3  (And, CONGRATULATIONS!)

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