Portrait Photography in Canberra Australia by Chris Canham
There seems to be a lot of circumstances over past years in Canberra where Non-professionals in the field will claim to be a Professional Portrait Photographer when they don’t really have a grasp on what it takes to capture and make beautiful images of everything that Portrait Photography encapsulates.
One slightly funny thing that I see come up more and more is when so called “Portrait Photographers” refer to themselves as “Natural Light Photographers” this sort wording of says to me that they potentially just don’t have any experience using Studio strobes for image capture and maybe not anything above the experience they created for themselves by buying a consumer level camera and taking photos of their first child—- here again we see a lot of this flash in the pan style people undercut the market and not conduct themselves, their facility or endeavour in a professional way.
The Great thing on a More Positive note!! With Digital camera technology—all you mums and dads can make a thousand pictures on the old Camera Store-Snap Happy and cull it down to one or 2 suitable pics—– the problem on a more negative note is as I have quoted above—that people can often run away with themselves and start to once again undercut the professionals in the market to make a bit of spare change, The truth as eventually comes out is that you get what you pay for and if a price seems really fabulous and appealing then you will potentially get a) a substandard Product
Or b) stung financially at the other end when it comes to viewing your imagery if any of it is of some level of quality or at least of interest to you.
My advice,
If you have been referred by a couple of friends via a bit of word of mouth and researched through having a look at what they got for their money then you might come up with a winner, but more often than not- a loss all round is the outcome,
Thi is more and more apparent across all genres of photography in Canberra which I will expand on further in coming articles.
Chris Canham is a Canberra Photographer who takes amazing children’s portraits. Check out his new section on Portrait Photography Canberra and Event Photography Canberra. Find him on Google places at: Chris Canham Canberra Photographer.