[richywilts]

im having my website rebuilt to focus mainly on commercial and to try and keep it a bit diifferent from everyone elses was thinking of using a professioanl photgrapher to capture some images anyone else used one and kept theres original

[wpclean]

I think you would be better paying off paying for better SEO, than expensive photography.

[Blue Frog Systems]

A picture can say a thousand words and a good quality picture can say that.

If your going for commercial work i would say go for it Richy. There not cheap for a decent photographer. Ask for what equipment they use and references first. Find out what sort of quality pictures your going to get and if you have all the rights to these photos. Also find out what you get picture wise ... do you get all of them or just a certain amount.

[richywilts]

ive had a chat today with him seems id get them all on cd, price varies depending on what length of time id have him for hour half day or full day etc looked thru google images and discussed what sort of shots he beleive would be good, ive had a cracking deal for web site facebook page linked in twitter etc thru a friends fiancee prob a third of the price so have a bit left over from good deal i got

[FCS]

Or..

Join Flickr (for free) and join a local flickr group, ask on their page if there are any up and coming photography students that want to do the job for their portfolio. The ones that reply will already be showing off their work on Flickr so you can see if you like their style/technique. You get the shots for nothing, they get to boast that they've been 'published', everyone's a winner. (except the professional photographer of course....)

[Blue Frog Systems]

seems and actually are two different things richy. make sure you get it in writting first.

have a look at your work and see which jobs would look the best. than its just a case of staging the jobs so it looks like your doing it

[Steve CM]

Richy,kate telesales woman. her other half is a great photographer. ring her. great results and very reasonably priced

[richywilts]

did he do your steve its a long way for them to come there down in dorset now arent they im nr liverpool

[Steve CM]

near cambridge i think. i did my own but if i would of known at the time i would of got him to do mine

[Steve CM]

talk to him he may go up there

[richardlingard]

nice website steve :-) love the colour scheme

[Steve CM]

Thanks 

[David Lingard]

DONT spend the money on SEO (what a con lol just build the site properly and moniter the SEO yourself - I get emails every day about someone guaranteeing me the no1 spot in google for £3000).

I did some consultancy work for a company who wanted a photo shoot to get their web & brochure images done, here's what I learnt:

They paid £1,500 for a photographer to take the photos, and someone else £750 (all +VAT) to edit them.

I have a Cannon EOS 1100D with a 55-75 lens & 75-250 lens (total £800 roundabouts)

When on the shoot the pro took 104 photos, I took 640.

I edited the images in 20 minutes with photoshop CS5

the pros took 3 days.

**They used my image for the brochure & web.**

Now THAT was annoying lol.