Austin Event Photographer - Virtual Background

Little did we know when we starting using the Virtual Background system how much it would impact how we do business. Prior to the VB (Virtual Background), we were using either greenscreen technology or standard muslin backgrounds for our onsite portraits.... and they both worked pretty well. But with the technological shift to VB, Get The Picture has noticed a significant impact on portraits sold.

If you haven't seen the Virtual Background system in action, you really ought to check it out. It is a projection system that allows the photographer to offer an endless number of background selections in their studio.(Even though Get The Picture doesn't really have a "studio" because we are mobile). We set up our "studios" onsite at events. So we do have to limit our selections, or our customers will go mad trying to choose. But we are actually able to offer up to 6 different background choices at one event. Six different background selections that are relevant to that event! It's really very cool!

Anyway... since having brought on our VB, we have noticed that packages are getting larger and more people are buying portraits than normally would have... bucking the industry trend being seen across the globe. With consumers having more and more control over their own photographs, they are tending to use professionals less and less. What is exciting for us is that the Virtual Background system allows us to produce a level of quality and professionalism onsite that no consumer can create themselves. Afterall... we're not doing "snapshots", we're committed to providing studio-quality portraits... ON THE SPOT!

Kate

Austin Event Photographer - Daddy Daughter Dance

If anyone ever tells you that writing blogs is easy, please pop them once for me! Kate asked me to write a blog about a recent event called a Father/ Daughter dance in which we set up two portable studios with matching backgrounds to maintain continuity and allow the line to move quickly. Prior to the event you would have thought we had this in the bag and bring em' on! Little did we know how many they would bring on! Even though we had two lines and were moving our subjects quickly through our process, the line never seemed to get shorter! Kate and I were on one line and Frank and Patricia were on the other and neither set up was empty at any time. Michaela was taking and processing orders with blinding speed but to no avail. There must have been a recent boon of families with daughters in this part of Austin! Now, I realize I am making this sound out of control but it was quite the contrary, even though we were working with over whelming numbers, we kept working to move as many people through our system until everyone was photographed and happy with their portrait! We even had one couple come up after they had turned the lights on and we stayed to photograph them and gave them their portrait to take home. They were very happy. All in all it was a tiring experience but also a fun one to see these little girls proudly posing in their beautiful dresses with their daddys. Even though some of these little ones grew a little grumpy in line while they waited, my hat is off to their dads for keeping them entertained and smiling when their time came.
I can't wait for the Mother/ Son dance to see those little guys in their suits!

Charles