Find a Professional Photographer
for your Family Event

So, you think you need a
Professional Photographer?

Are family reunions, birthday parties, baby pictures, pet portraits, or other family events in your future? That's okay. As mentioned before, the purpose of this site is to provide everything required to help families achieve the best possible photographic results for all their family's needs.

In keeping with that purpose, most of this site is devoted to teaching you great tips and information on:

• Photography poses

• Digital camera comparison

• Photography techniques

• Family portraits

• Key terminology

• Important digital camera features & funtions

• Printing digital photography

• Storage, and

• Sharing photographs

But, if you're not quite sure if you do need a professional photographer or not, then take a look at the pros and cons of using one...

And, if you live around Chicago, have we got a deal for you!

As you look over the following list, keep in mind that the only significant "con" is the cost.

Pros

• Better results. The final photographs will be better posed, and better processed than you could do. Sorry to break it like this, but it's the truth. After all, if you could take pictures like a professional photographer, you'd probably be one.

• Greater reliability. A pro is much less likely to run out of spare batteries or memory; not have one or even two backup cameras; or to miss a critical photograph. In addition, if the pro gets sick or is unavoidably detained, there is always a backup.

• Better quality. Professionals have years of experience and thousands of shots behind them in posing, capturing, and processing photographs.

• Better equipment. A professional photographer uses top-of-the-line equipment in cameras, lenses, tripods, flashes, backdrops, flashmeters, etc. It's not unusual for a pro to use $10,000-$20,000 worth of equipment for a large event. (In fact, if you really want a good deal on camera gear, just hang around the professional, and when they go on break...sorry, never mind!)

• Less stress and anxiety. With an expert on the scene, all you have to do is...RELAX AND ENJOY THE EVENT. Sure, you can take pictures too, but there's a world of difference "stress-wise" between doing it for you verses having to do it perfectly for everyone.

Cons

• It's going to cost you money! Quite simply, if you took the pictures yourself, it would cost you in time, not money. However, like everything else in life, you get what you pay for. And only you can determine if the money is worth the risk and the stress.

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