What is Custom Photography?
I am a professional child and family custom photographer.
If you are raising your eyebrows, or hear the word “huh?” bouncing around in your mind you are not alone.
Even if you are a custom photographer yourself, I challenge you to define Custom Photography so that any English speaking individual can understand it.
I laughed to myself when someone challenged me to do just that. Sure I can define what I do. (Self-assured giggle.) But when I defined it, my words were a whole sack of fancy terms that meant nothing to someone that has never come in contact with Custom Portraiture. My smile froze on my face.
So what IS Custom Photography?
Custom Photography is about a luxurious and fun experience that culminates with you getting artistic images that captured your children and family’s unique relationships, personalities, and moments.
It is all about the experience. From start to finish; it is all customized for you.
It is about creating something wonderful together with a professional that you will be able to display in your home and will have the ability to make you happy over and over again.
(See the process. section of the info tab on my site here to read a bit about how the experience goes.)
Um. I am still not sure I know what that means. (blush.)
Let me explain.
When I tell people what I do, I am often asked- “Oh, so you do professional pictures like JcPenny?”
No.
Custom Photography is very different than having your pictures taken at JcPenny.
How so?
Let’s compare it to eating out in a pizza shop vs. a high end Italian restaurant. (Yeah, I love Italian food. :op)
When you go to a local pizza shop you get just that; pizza. Or whatever else you fancy.
You wait on line, make your order, pay the cashier, and sit down to eat. Done.
When you go to a high end restaurant it is much more than that.
It is an experience.
It is all about the ambiance, the tone and mood the decor sets. It is about feeling pampered and served, and it is about the tantalizing meal delivered to perfection.
So what does pizza have to do with photography?
JcPenny and other such photography businesses are about the pictures. You have a couple of minutes to set up your kids or family, hope the person behind the camera will be patient enough to wait until you get some smiles , you get to order your photo sheets and it is over. It is a simple process, like eating in a pizza shop.
Custom Photography is like the restaurant; it is about the whole experience. It is a luxurious experience that is enjoyable throughout the process.
Only with the restaurant you go out with a happy heart and a full belly, having immensely enjoyed the experience. But then it is over, and all you have is the memory to hold on to, and maybe a pound or two.
With Custom Photography you come out of the experience not only full and happy; but with priceless images of your family to hold on to forever.
Wow! It does sound like Custom Photography is a wonderful thing, but I can’t afford luxuries.
I understand.
Often we have only certain things that we will spend on.
For some it is vacations, for some it is cars, for some it is clothes, and for some it is our homes. For each of us it may be something else.
All wonderful things. Most of them fleeting.
Custom Photography results in artistic and timeless images that have the ability to make us happy again and again. Images that professionally capture way more than what your’ loved ones look like, but capture what they are like. Every time I look at Custom images created of my family my heart smiles. I never get tired of it. And neither will you.
It is also about capturing your family and loved ones as they are now. Now never comes back. What you have captured lasts forever.
Ok, I am convinced. I am just curious, are all Custom Photographers the same?
Are all restaurants the same?
Not at all.
There are all different kinds of food genres to satisfy all different kinds of tastes. There are so many Master Custom Photographers out there all with their own unique flavor.
Some are masters at creating the right experience; some are masters at creating the final product. Some are both. (wink,wink)
I venture to say some are not masters at all. (running to hide now.)
Finding a Custom Photographer that will give you the high quality experience and images you deserve can be hard. Tips and ways to go about it is for a whole other discussion.
For now, contact me if you want to start your Custom Photography experience with me today.
845.425.0125
contact@zberkovicphotography.com
I look forward to our time together.
Zoe
Photographers, feel free to use this on your blogs, just as long as you credit me back with a link. :)
Kara Layfield: Just in awe!!! Your work is beautiful!!! It's a treat for my eyes! :)
Dezarae: Wow these are stunning! LOVE your work, Zoe!
Laura Morita-Yeun: You, Zoe Berkovic, are the backlighting master. I love these so much!
Julie Delgado: Amazing! Love the light in these. Beautiful.
Lina: Weeee! Love it!
amy: very cute. love.
Kathleen: I love the sweet innocence that you capture. the way you use lighting to convey a feeling is amazing.
Claire: Great shots Zoe!
Audrey Litfin: Absolutely amazing Zoe!! You shots are always so crisp and clean, LOVE them.
amy: gorgeous!!!! love love the light in these!! stunning!