Finespun Photography is a “boutique” photography studio, catering to clients who want more from their photography than “snap shots” to file away in a box or images to post on the internet. We specialize in custom photography. “Custom photography is more of a luxury than your entry level cookie cutter, department store experience. Custom photography truly is not for everyone; it requires a level of commitment, investment in time and money, forethought and planning on the part of the subject/client and requires a larger time commitment for the photographer as well.
Clients who enjoy taking a more active role in the creation of their family’s memories have the desire to have portrait art that is truly personalized. These more discerning clients have been known to budget and allot time for a custom photography session. Many clients opt for it to be a once a year special experience, some opt to have custom photography sessions done to record their child’s stages in life. Having said this, it is clear that custom photography is not in everyone’s budget, it is something that most families save for to splurge on from time to time to memorialize their children as they really are (rather than posed and primped in the cookie cutter studio setting).
Custom photography ultimately is all about “the experience” and “the relationship”. The experience should be joyful and fun and capture those special relationships that you share with those in your life. Custom photography is about finding someone who will photograph your family, give you devoted one-on-one attention without worry of the next “in line” or feeling of a crowded portrait studio. You can expect a custom photographer to continue the “experience” when you come back in the studio to view those images in a slide show set to music. This is where you will see only the best images that meet the photographer’s creative sensibilities. Some of the images will be fully edited and color corrected with blemishes and under eye circles removed. This helps clients envision what the image might look like displayed in their home as artwork to be enjoyed for many years.
And the time, effort and expertise that go into creating this artwork will cost more. Even though you can pay $1.99 for a print at your local drugstore, purchasing an 8 x 10 can cost $60 or more at a boutique studio. There are many reasons for the additional costs at a custom studio, including time, equipment costs, artistic vision, photographer expertise, overhead, as well as the quality of the end product. Finespun Photography’s portraits (even our 8 x 10’s) are professionally processed to enhance and softer skin tones; printed with the finest inks onto textured papers and mounted to board for stability. All of our prints are treated with an archival lacquer to protect the images for many years. This labor intensive process is incorporated into every product we sell.
The portrait art you have invested in from your custom photographer will no doubt increase in value and become more priceless to you as the years pass. To learn more about our photography, feel free to view our on-line galleries. But don’t stop there and remember that photography is not about what you see in an on-line image but what you see in the studio and what you feel when you meet with the photographer.
