FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
-Rates DO include passionate image creation by Jef Bond, my faithful assistant (lighting technician and help), post production image enhancement and blemish removal, high res digital images delivered to you via email or thumb drive with personal copyright release, so you may share and print images with no hassle. -Paper Prints, Canvas Prints, Enlargements, and merchandise will be available on our website after our portrait session (approximately 2 -5 business days). -Booking & Payment Schedule: 25% of total creative fee is due when the assignment is booked. After images have been edited and completed (5 business days), to receive the finished images, the balance must be paid prior to receiving the images. Once full payment has been made, images will be released to you within 2 hours of receiving payment in full. If a thumb drive is required delivery may take up to 7 business days. -If you would like me to come to you, travel is billed $1.42 per mile starting outside of Pensacola Limits; -Standard Delivery: Five Business days.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Listening to my customers teaches me the most. However, In 1994 I started working in a photo lab. The photo lab had a full photography studio where I practiced my photography skills. Keep in mind, all we had back then was film. Instant gratification of seeing the image on the back of the camera was not a luxury we had back then. We had to get it right the first time. Now that we are in the digital age I prefer it because we can perfect what we want in the moment. After several years with the photo lab, I then moved onto traveling the world with several different highly skilled photographers, assisting, taking out the trash, sweeping the floors, driving, picking up after the models, photographers, subjects. Doing those things was definitely something I needed to do to understand all that is required to be a pro. I felt like the Karate Kid, training in ways that did not make sense to me at the time. After several years of grunt work, I moved up to photographer, then one day those photographers said "please don't go, we need you" I've been on my own since. The learning will never stop. If you ever meet a photographer who claims to know it all, be cautious.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I needed a photographer to create images of my events. None of them captured what I wanted, so I bought a professional camera and did it myself. It became my passion.