A portrait of your family and kids at the beach can be an heirloom you will cherish for life.
Make sure you select the right Naples beach photographer.
- Use the internet as early as possible. Good Naples beach photographers book up quickly. Search for “Naples Beach Photographer”
- Call the photographer. E-mail and text don’t tell you much about him. If no one answers the phone, expect a call-back within 24 hours. Sometimes we have all-day projects. If no call-back, don’t call again.
- How long has he/she been in business? How many beach portrait sessions? Any other experience? A competent Naples photographer will have shot lots of sessions in Naples over a period of several years. Beware of young shooters with limited experience.
- Ask how/when she shoots the portraits. Sunlight at the beach is radioactive — how does he handle it? The only time to shoot portraits at the beach is when the sun is very low — 30 minutes before sunset, or 30 minutes after sunrise.
- Ask to see samples of his work — especially a complete session. Anybody can be lucky enough to get half a dozen decent photos for the website. Good photographers have a consistent style that results in a large number of great shots from each session. If he won’t show you samples, move on.
- How does the work look? Is the lighting smooth and the skin tones soft, or are there strong shadows and high contrast? Is there a halo around the hair? Most importantly, how are the expressions? Happy and real, or forced?
- Is the photographer interested in you? Does he ask you about your family?
- Will he give you the product you want, be it prints, digital files, or some combination of both?
- Does he color-correct and density-balance the digital files, or give them to you right out of the camera? Does he retouch the prints?
- And finally, what do you get for your money? How much is the session fee? How much are prints? How much for digital files? How much does the average family spend?
- Here’s the kind of guy you are looking for:
