Our Approach - What you can expect

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Photos are posted within 48 hours of a trial. These are how the photos look, straight of the camera. There is no editing, or changing the photo of any kind. 

Digital orders are fulfilled with 5-7 business days of being ordered,  with the goal being as soon as possible. Now is when I edit - photos will go through a full edit of smoothing, color balancing, and other enhancements to give the photo that polished look.

Insider secret of all photography businesses: Photographers do their best to take a great initial photo, but that photo will still require some edits. The debate is, do we edit now, or do we edit later.

My business model centers mainly around event photography, and getting those event photos to the client as fast as possible. This helps my clients meet their deadlines for advertising - whether it be brags from the weekend, ads for studs/litters, banners for various national events, and many many other print deadlines. 

In order to do that, I've flipped the script. I post photos immediately, and let you as the competitor decide what shots you like.  As an exhibitor myself, I know the first thing you're looking at in a photo is this: Is my dog performing the behavior in the way I want pictured? This could mean hitting contacts, not having knocked bars, staying in heal position....the list goes on!

Color, brightness, sharpness, balance, smoothing - this is all adjustable after the photo is taken, the behavior in the photo is not. If I were to perform this on every photo taken before I show it to the client, it would take 3-5 weeks to get through an entire event. I average about 2500 photos per weekend. The client would have to wait a month before even seeing the behaviors in the photo, and what they see may not be what they're looking for. This flipped script model usually has the photos to the clients, fully polished and edited, by their next weekend's trial. This cuts the time down in the process by 3-4 weeks.

I would also like to clear up a misconception I've had brought up to me: all photos taken at high speeds and/or indoors are going to require time in post production. This is every photographer, across all fields of photography. I was recently compared to other photographers and told my uploads didn't look like theirs so I must not be experienced. Yet, this person was comparing a fully edited, polish photo to a photo untouched right off the camera. Clients don't often see the photo straight off the camera, which is where this misconception arose from. 

Each photographer has a business model that works for their business. There isn't a one true set business model for photography, and each model is valid - editing first or editing last.

This model works for me, but it might not work for someone else and their specialty. It is important to be respectful of each photographer's method. At the end of the day, this is art and we are artists. How we present that art to the work is very personal. This would be a very boring profession without individuality!!