DO YOU WANT DIGITAL IMAGES?
“THAT STICK LOOKS GREAT ON THE WALL”
““From being made to feel like a beauty queen getting my hair and make up done to getting photos taken in my underwear has given me amazing confidence. And this was down to Dave and Jane who made the whole day / experience one I’ll remember. They made the shoot fun and relaxed-getting some gorgeous photos to share with my partner! I would highly recommend these guys to anyone.. You need to know just how beautiful you are – and Dave and Jane help make that happen !! Xx””
ARE YOU ONLY INTERESTED IN DIGITAL IMAGES?
Firstly, let’s get 3 things out in the open straight away…
We want you to have printed products and care little for digitals.
Every Madison Bou Photoshoot Experience comes with digitals.
Purchasing digitals will NOT save you money!
People come to us all the time and ask for the digitals.
Many ask for just the digitals.
I think it’s because many people believe that the digitals should be cheaper. After all, with no books, frames or print costs, it’s understandable that people will expect digitals to be cheaper isn’t it?
Here’s the thing…
A pot of Dulux Matt Emulsion costs about £15.
Is that how much it costs to paint your house or would you expect to pay the painter and decorator?
A monkey Wrench can be purchased for about a tenner so would you expect that to be the cost of sorting out your plumbing or would you expect to pay the Plumber?
We all have digital cameras these days and we know it’s basically free to take pictures and load them onto social media or our computers.
It’s also basically free to hack away at your plumbing with a diy manual in your hand or paint your house with cheap paint (Because your hours of time are basically free aren’t they?…. Tell your boss that and watch the smile )
You see, there is a skill set involved with all these things and photography is one of them.
Oh if all that was needed to paint a house was a pot of paint.
If all that was needed to install a bathroom was a monkey wrench.
If all that was needed to take great pictures was a digital camera… Then there would be no need to ever hire a professional.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.
There are always those who want to do it themselves and save money.
There are some photographers who are grateful for any work they get and give their digitals away cheaply to try and compete in a busy market.
… When I was starting out, 20 years ago, I was also grateful for every penny people would give me. Now, my work has improved and things are different.
When you buy digitals from Madison Bou you’re paying for the lighting, the posing, the hair and make-up and the use of Hazlewood Castle. You’re paying for a service that doesn’t come cheaply and has been earned over 20 years. You’re paying for images which are totally unique. They have a style which is unique to the studio. Of course, you may not like the style in which case we are not the studio for you. But if you love the fact that you look so good in our pictures. You don’t look fat, or awkward, or the way you normally look when a friend photographs you.
If you feel good when you look at your Madison Bou pictures even though you thought you were un-photogenic.
This is no accident. It’s what you pay us for. The pictures of you looking amazing!
Whether your amazing pictures are printed on paper or given to you on a stick, it’s the work involved in making them look amazing that you’re paying for, not the raw material cost.
In fact, many established studios don’t offer digitals at all.
They know that to do so and allow clients to print as many prints as they like at whatever size they like will kill off their sales.
More importantly, you’re losing out on professionally finished, archival products that will last for many decades. Far longer than cheap domestic prints will last.
That is, if you get round to printing them out at all. For most of us, life gets in the way.
The digital stick will last as long as the technology lasts. iPhones are 11 years and counting, facebook and instagram will one day vanish (just like everything else before it. Unfortunately it’s inevitable) USB sticks are already a largely redundant technology. One day all your stored digitals will be like all that lovely music on your old cassettes. (Who can play their cassettes now?)
Oh and no one ever said…. “That usb stick looks amazing on the wall”
OUR DIGITALS COST £999
I bet you’ll not get to read the small print below…
With a product such as Folio Box of archival matted prints or a stunning book full of amazing pictures, laminated and sealed and guaranteed for 99 years, the digitals cost a £350 upgrade.
••• The book or the folio box and the digitals cost less than the digitals alone! •••
Hang on, did you read that correctly?
••• The book or the folio box and the digitals cost less than the digitals alone! •••
I’ve been photographing professionally for over 20 years. I started, like everyone else in my generation, with film and processing images in a darkroom.
I was an early adopter of digital and photoshop. I’ve grown up through every stage of digital development.
I also had a parallel career in radio as a DJ and grew up with vinyl discs and then digital minidiscs, cds and now everything is touch screen, hard drive based.
25 years on radio, almost every day and I have dozens of minidiscs, cassettes, open reel tape and cds to prove it. Priceless interviews with some of the biggest showbiz artists in the world (Dolly Parton, Phil Collins,Kylie, Madonna, Sting the list is endless)
Yet, I have no way of playing them to my kids since I now stream everything in my house. I don’t own a dvd player, or cd player and certainly not a cassette or open real player.
I’m fast running out of options as well, regarding my stored pictures. USBs and DVDs are no longer available on my new Apple computers. (Soon they won’t be on any new computers)
Spinning hard drives, as soon as they die, will be replaced by solid state hard drives. (Standard on all Apple computers now)
Perhaps storing your precious digital images in the cloud will last several years, who knows?
Storing them on your phones and smart devices doesn’t sound very long term to me with the current speed of change in the mobile phone industry.
So when all the digital options have either become obsolete or changed to another incompatible medium, where will you be able to view your pictures in your old age? What will you be able to hand down to your kids?
Prints, that’s what. All our printed products are archival quality with the finest inks and papers and laminated to last for 100 years.
100 years!
I’ll give your jpegs an outside chance of lasting 10 and any on your mobile phone, maybe 5 years.
This is why I’m so passionate about providing quality, printed products. They not only look amazing, they last forever.
There is one other reason though….
Over the last 20 years I’ve asked my brides and portrait clients what they’ve done with their digitals and they almost always tell me they haven’t had a chance to print any out yet. (They will one day, but life somehow gets in the way)
SO REMEMBER – BUY ANY PRINT PRODUCT AFTER A MADISON BOU EXPERIENCE AND YOU’LL GET DIGITALS INCLUDED.
WHY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER A BOUDOIR ALBUM?
We passionately believe everyone should at least consider a boudoir album of fabulous images from their Madison Bou experience photoshoot at Hazlewood Castle.
Why?
After photographing fashion and boudoir style sessions over many years for hundreds of clients i’ve seen a pattern emerge.
Clients arrive either having no idea what to expect or with a strong idea of what they want. Many who come with preconceived ideas think they’ll like one or two pictures and that’s what they’ll end up buying. It rarely works out like that.
Our shoots take longer than most studios because we take time to get things right. We work hard to make you look good. We aim for great expressions that make you look completely at ease in front of the camera. That doesn’t happen straight away. You’ll need time to warm up and get comfortable. Natural poses don’t just happen, they are created and this takes time as well.
When you return to see your images, we’ll often show as many as a hundred, beautifully edited, pictures with different looks, lighting, poses, expressions, outfits. No two shoots are the same. Everything is personal to you.
We’ve done this many, many times. We know you’ll look utterly, drop dead gorgeous and we know you’ll love far more than one or two pictures.
Most clients narrow their favourites down to around 20-30 pictures. The perfect number of pictures for a boudoir book. These 20-30 favourites can be laid out in storybook fashion so that each page turn creates another breathtaking ‘wow’ with a different outfit or location. The perfect way to document your Madison Bou Experience.
After a Boudoir session with Madison Bou, you will be able to get pictures that will last for a lifetime.
All of our products are printed with archival quality inks and papers, so your albums and prints will last and not fade as they would if you were to print images from the High Street or most online printing companies.
Our Dreambook 4k Printed on the state-of-the-art Canon DreamLabo 5000 with a fortified seven-dye ink.