Fun Fun Fun! Meet Anna and Charlie!

Meet the faces of my 2014 Christmas Mini Session Promotion! I had the pleasure of hosting these gorgeous girls for a photo shoot last week - they were the perfect models to promote my upcoming Christmas Mini Session being held on Saturday 8th November in Ringwood!

Our Christmas Mini Session is a fun and convenient way for you to create unique and personalised Christmas gifts for family and friends (Grandparents LOVE receiving a beautiful image of their children and / or grandchildren at Christmas - some clients come back each year and have started a tradition in their family!)

Each Mini Session includes:

• up to a 20 minute photo shoot
• 3 x 12.5 x 17.5cm prints
• 1 x 20.5 x 25.5cm prints
• 1 set of 13 x 18cm folded cards with envelopes! 

Your friends and family will love receiving their personalised Christmas Greeting Card with your beautiful family on the front. Grandparents, Aunties and Uncles and friends will absolutely adore a quality, professional grade archival print of your family!

Our Christmas Mini Sessions are unique, popular and places are limited! Bookings are now open! If you or someone you know would like to book - click on this link now and let me know and we will secure your place and preferred time!

If you would like more information regarding our Christmas Mini Session, click here where you will be taken to my website. Alternatively you can email me here!

Cheeky Girls!

The Christmas Mini Session will take place on Saturday 8th November during the day and will be in the Ringwood Nth area of Melbourne. The exact location will be given once booking is finalised. The Christmas Mini Session is $120 and full payment is required at time of booking to secure your place and preferred time. Book here now!

Have a great day!

Until next time, happy snapping!

Cheers

Larissa x

Quality Matters and a Freebie!

Hello!

Welcome to my July Blog and for those of you living here in the south eastern states of Australia, I hope you are managing to stay warm! We are certainly experiencing an Arctic blast at the moment which has proven to be awesome for the ski slopes! My family and I are very excited about this as we will be hitting the slopes of Mt Buller in a few weeks time and the start to the ski season has been the best I can remember!! I hope that the weather doesn't decide to get too warm all of a sudden and melt it all before we get there! This issue

I want to share with you a few bits and pieces about Larissa Hill Photography that you may not be aware of. Larissa Hill Photography information packs are available at your request. These information packs contain everything you need to know about booking a photography session with us. The information pack includes what to expect when a photography session is booked, prices of individual prints, canvases, photo books, display boxes, greeting cards, our popular photography packages and more! If you would like an information pack sent out to you, click this link here! Quality is also covered in the information pack and why choosing a professional photographer will the reap rewards of beautiful images.

Larissa Hill Photography use professional photography labs who have been carefully selected for the high quality prints and other products that are produced. Archival quality materials are used and the workmanship of products are outstanding! 

Run of the mill printing lab

Here are some images that help explain the difference in quality and workmanship. The first 2 images to the right are of a canvas I printed a couple of years ago from a run of the mill on line retail printing outlet. The canvas image is OK and is not printed on a canvas but some sort of vinyl (which may deteriorate over time), again is OK, but the quality of the framing is the basics - the bare minimum - and they put the string on the wrong way around! I tried to get in touch with them to let them know and organise some string to go on the right way but in the end it was too much effort and hassle so I gave up!

Quality of materials
and framing are inferior

The next 2 images below are of a canvas I printed earlier this year when I was researching professional photo labs - the quality of the framing is amazing! There is obviously much more workmanship in this product and the image is printed on true art canvas which will last for many many many years. This is an example of a framed canvas but I can assure you that the unframed canvases are of equal quality. 

For me these differences in the quality are important. If we are making the effort and spending the time and money to create beautiful and memorable images, the images deserve to be printed on the best quality materials that will last and last!.

Professional Printing Lab

The issues of quality are also evident in the quality of the prints including the archival quality paper used and the colour matching technology that reproduces prints that are true to the colours of the digital files and images. The end result is a pleased photographer as their images are represented as intended and a happy and grateful client who receive impressive quality products of the highest standard.

Quality of materials and
workmanship are far superior

Other News!

Winter Warmer Promotion!

I know it is still a long way off until Christmas and most people would be cringing at the thought of thinking about Christmas right now BUT …. We have a fabulous opportunity for one lucky family to receive a FREE mini session at our exclusive Christmas Mini Session valued at $120. To find out more, click this link! This is a great way to update your family portrait with a Christmas theme. So click this link now and find out how YOU can be in with a chance to receive this mini session valued at $120 for FREE!

Referral Program

Our referral program is well under way and I am pleased to say that the feedback I have been receiving about it is very positive! The referral program is designed to thank clients for referring family and friends to Larissa Hill Photography! More information on our referral program can be found by clicking this link!

Thanks for reading! Don't forget to stay warm and lets hope the snow doesn't melt! Have a great weekend what ever you are doing …

Until next time …Happy Snapping!

Larissa x

Why Choose a Professional Photographer?

There is the teeniest of smiles 
behind this shy girl's hand!

Why choose a Professional Photographer? This is a very good question and one that can easily be answered. There is more to being a professional photographer than owning a nice camera - in fact a good photographer will be able to take a great photo with any sort of camera. The iPhone is a great example of this where there are countless groups on Instagram and Flickr etc that showcase amazing photographs taken with smart phones. Good cameras however allow a good photographer to expand their creativity to produce stunning images.

Professional Photographers acquire skill and knowledge and have practised and practised and practised. When these elements are brought together, the final result equals high quality and appealing images. Professional Photographers will "Capture the Moment". While this is a term many professional photographers use, there is a reason so many professional photographers use it! This is what photography is all about. This is what the education and practise creates - a child's fleeting expression, the hint of a smile from the shy teenager, the toddler who won't sit still, the amazing light, attractive and dynamic composition, emotions, expression, camera settings, using natural light …. great photographers bring all these elements together in an instant to get that shot!

It takes skill and knowledge 
to "capture the moment"

The quality that a professional photographer brings to their images cannot be underestimated. Timeless and classic images don't happen by accident. Professional Photographers will have the right equipment, will prepare for days before a shoot and will ensure the people being photographed are comfortable, are at ease and produce images that are flattering not embarrassing (unless this is intended of course!). Once the images have been captured the photographer processes the images. Good photographers shoot in RAW format, which is like a digital negative. Instead of developing film negatives in a dark room, photographers using digital cameras process the digital negatives using a computer program. Again skill and knowledge is required to effectively create and enhance these images using specialised programs.

For me, as a professional photographer, my reputation is most important. My photography business relies on my good reputation and on word of mouth. Most of my new clients are referred from current clients, which is the greatest compliment! It means they are talking about my business in a positive way and like their experience enough that they want their family and friends to share their experience.

This is so true -
you get what you pay for

By choosing Larissa Hill Photography you will experience a unique and tailored photography experience. Larissa Hill Photography creates works of art for your walls. From our first conversation through to the delivery of your prints, we will be sharing a journey and a creative process. Your photo session, right from our first meeting, will be fully tailored to your vision with our interpretation and style influencing the final product. Larissa Hill Photography creates timeless works of art for your walls. My clients have a level of commitment, invest in time and money, have an idea of where their images will go and what they will look like. To achieve these results more commitment in time from your photographer - Larissa Hill Photography - is required. 

The above quote is quite apt! Yes clients can pay for a cheap photographer and be handed their images on disc. Unfortunately, most people who purchase discs never print their images, and if they do it will be at somewhere cheap. While these places are fine for snap shots of holidays (I use these places for my holiday snaps!), for wall art only professional printing labs will suffice. It seems a shame to spend so much energy producing the images to either have them hidden on a disc for no one to enjoy or printed in a way that the colour of the images is not true and the quality of the paper or canvas is such that it deteriorates or fades over time. Larissa Hill Photography use professional printing labs for all prints, canvases, photo books and other products. The papers used are archival papers and if cared for properly will last for generations - these images are intended to be family heirlooms.

If you are interested in engaging Larissa Hill Photography please check out my website and please contact me via the contact page. I can also be contacted via email (lhconsulting@optusnet.com.au) and via Facebook.  - I look forward to hearing from you and how I can help create art for your walls.

I will leave you with this quote - "A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then 'that was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.' " - Sam Haskins

Until next time

Happy snapping!

Larissa x