April 30th, 2010 in If you're new here, welcome! This blog is for everyone who loves photo albums, stories and special memories. Please subscribe by email or RSS using the links (right). Check out our blog for professional photographers and album designers here. Thanks for visiting.
Think of the best stuff you ever had. The best meal, the best coffee, the coolest shoes, the wittiest tee-shirt … a fantastic book store, those amazing heirloom tomatoes.
The people who provide you with amazing stuff are obsessive.
Yes, they want to sell you something, but it’s their obsession that drives them and makes them outstanding.
There’s a lot of obsessiveness in a beautiful album too, from the photography and design to the printing and binding.
Every now and then we remind the obsessive people who work at Queensberry that our business is “not about the albums”.
Sometimes we remind photographers that it’s not about the photography either…
Because it’s not.
Our business is about the people in the viewfinder. You. Your stories. Your special moments.
So if you’ve chosen a photographer who’s driven to be the best they can be, congratulations! You need someone like that, who obsesses about camera models and available light and pixels and ICC profiles and software that makes your eyes cross!
But if your photographer also understands that, as one professional put it, people photography is about people, not about photography, you’re on the way to a beautiful album that you can “enjoy, reflect upon and share forever”.
Cheers, Ian
Really good post – sometimes you can get caught up 'in the business'.
I've been working two photographers and a videographer lately, who understand the business to be ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE.
Check them out here:
http://www.bayofplentyweddings.co.nz
http://www.images4u.co.nz
http://www.emergeweddingvideos.co.nz
Ian, I was with you in Austin several years ago and we shared stories of our businesses. I stumbled upon your site today and was so surprised and pleased to find you doing so well! Your site, and business are truly extraordinary! Looks like you used every ounce of what we learned in Keith’s classes. I am entering into the wedding business this year, as a designer, and I am inspired by your choice to keep the integrity of your product on the highest level possible. I look forward to following your business, and hope to send some your way! Take care and congratulations.
Angela Saban
Great to hear from you Angela! – All the best with your new venture. Got a website? – Ian
Not done yet, but will send you a link as soon as I do, would love your feedback. I am still “in line” with our construction business, although for the past year it has been a “soup” line. Excited to finally do what I love! Stay in touch.
Angela