A high-res file and permission to make your own prints. Analogous to a negative, hence the name.
Adobe released a dng file format that competes with tif. They are both raw, uncompressed image formats.
I guess thats what people are referring too as a “digital negative”?
These days just about any photographer would have to provide digital images as well as prints. Saves the hassle of scanning the photos yourself.
Maybe so, but I’ve heard that some some photographers copy-protect the images so that most scanners won’t copy them.
I am an amateur photographer. I have always had a hard time photographing children and/or pets. Paying for a professional to do that makes SOME sense, but not in the price range quoted above. My children will just have to make do with my semi-adequate pictures of their adorable offspring.
Oh, no, no. It’s not at all the typical grin and look at the camera type of cheesy portraiture you got from those places. But I thought you were saying that in general private photographers are not that expensive. I personally don’t think $200-$300 for a session is particularly expensive, but when people are used to Sears and those types of photo studios, it does seem pretty expensive. You’re getting different types of products, of course.
Not really “jerkanese,” and, actually, “digital negative” is not the term I should have used, as I do not release raw files to my clients (or, I should say, very, very rarely do I release them.) The phrase “files and print release” is probably a better way of putting it these days, but the phrase “digital negative” came into use during the transition from film to digital, and, in my experience, I used it because clients still weren’t used to digital and asked about access to “negatives,” not realizing that concept didn’t really work with digital. Photographers don’t refer to files as “digital negatives” among themselves. I’ve only used that term with consumers, although I should probably phase it out. I was curious to see what I call it on my website (I forgot) and I use the term “reproduction rights to your images,” not “digital negative.”
This is not quite right. A TIFF isn’t really a “raw” file. Also TIFF, in my experience, is most often compressed, using LZW compression, but it is lossless compression. It is possible to have a lossy tiff, though, but that’s rare (a JPEG in a TIFF wrapper.)
We go to JC Penny’s.
The only time I had any portraits done, I went to Target. They did a wonderful job.
Not necessarily. First off, they have no lack of customers. They don’t need a gimmick to get them in the store. Second, if the potential profit from the square footage taken up by the studio would be increased by filling it with sellable goods, instead of a hardly used studio, then it isn’t in their interest at all. I’m willing to bet that shelves and shelves of goods put in that space would make more money than the studio has been lately.
I’m shocked that this sort of thing is still around myself. It really does seem like a vestige of ye olden days.
There’s no doubt that home digital cameras hurt the Portrait studios. Parents can take photos of their kids whenever they want.
Portrait studios survived the Polaroid camera. My parents took several albums of those pictures on our vacations in the 70’s. They still weren’t a substitute for professional family portraits every few years. I even had a portrait done in my Boy Scout uniform and merit badge sash.
<shrug> I guess young parents are happy with their pictures from digital cameras. Throw a few USB drives in a drawer and hope the photos are still good twenty-five years from now.
Yeah, and checking for my state (Michigan), see that there’s one in Kentwood (Huh? Where the heck is that? Google)
Oh, it’s near Grand Rapids, a 4-hour drive away. I don’t think they’ll be getting any of my business anytime soon.
But seriously, my son got a portrait picture taken at his school. For family photos, we just take our own pictures. I don’t think I’ve gone to a portrait studio since I was a young child.
And if you only use portrait studios, how will you get to meet the guy wearing aviator sunglasses and driving a rusty panel van who’ll ask your teenage daughter if she’d be interested in some “side modeling”?
It always sucks when someone gets laid off, and hopefully some of those folks will have retained a client list of regulars that they can build their own business out of. I would say that I see hope for the future. With almost an entire generation, whose entire portfolio will consist of bar photos drinking yaegermister and bathroom duck shots, there will be fertile ground to be plowed in the next few years.
The market will set the price, between the mommygrapher and hobby guy with the big camera and the remaining studios. Your results as a customer will obviously vary.
Declan
You can’t put a price on memories…and yet here we are…