Photography

Wedding photos, senior photos, family photos, event photography, construction photography, baby photos – we've done it all!

We take a different approach to photography than most. It always seemed unfair to me to pay a photographer hundreds of dollars to come and take wonderful photos of an event, only to have the photographer keep all the photos hostage until you paid him more money to buy a "package." It seems to me that if you pay a photographer, you should be paying him for his time and talent – you already own the images.

If you hire HippieBoy Design to photograph your event we'll swoop in with our camera bags flapping in the breeze and our tripods at the ready. When the event is over, we'll do all the post-production editing on the photos, delete the icky ones and put the good shots on a disk for you. You're then free to take the disk anywhere you please and get prints made at any size. If you want some images edited further or airbrushed after you see them, just let me know – we'll work something out. If you're not comfortable getting the prints made yourself, we'll get them done for you at cost. We can even put the still photos on a DVD as a slideshow if you want, though that will cost just a little extra.

Prices

In a nutshell, for senior photos and most other photography, we charge $100 per hour while we're at your event (that covers both the photographer and assistant), + $15 per hour travel time while we're driving to your event if it's more than, oh, 25 miles away or so. Holidays and bookings with less than three days' notice are $120 per hour. Payment is due at the time of the shoot.

For weddings, we're asking about $1,250 or so, depending on how long you want us there. This might sound high, but if you check around, you'll see we're about half the cost of other photographers.

Why do we charge that much? Simple - for every hour we spend shooting we have to spend about four hours in post-production and about one hour of miscellaneous dinking around (setting up equipment, tearing it down, maintaining the cameras, doing the billing, burning disks, etc.), so if you hire us for a one hour shoot, we charge $75, spend one hour shooting, one hour setting up and tearing down, and about four hours in front of a computer doing the editing - so that's six hours total work going into a one-hour shoot. If you do the math, that adds up to about $12.50 an hour.

Our Equipment

Just a quick overview: Between the three photographers we have three digital Canon SLR's, three good zoom lenses with digital stabilization, several lens filters, two tripods, some lights 'n umbrellas, a glare-reduction doodad, two Olympus and one Kodak digital "point 'n shoot" cameras, all of pretty high resolution. (One Canon is 15 megapixel, the other two are both 10 megapixel, the Olympus and Kodak are both above 7 megapixel. The last Olympus is "for emergency use only" – it's a little 3.2 megapixel.) We also have other miscellaneous equipment hanging around, and we're always acquiring more. I use a combination of several software packages to tweak and enhance the photos, depending on the circumstances.

We do most of our shoots "on location." We go where you want us. We are currently building an indoor studio (which should be done sometime in 2023 if we keep going at this rate).