photo_chick said:I've already seen a few of the old, big well known studios in my area shut their doors because they didn't change their business model. There are still holdouts who want to control the entire process, just like there were when digital first came onto the scene, but we live in an age where photos are shared with social media, not by sending grandma an envelope of wallet size prints. People keep their family albums on their smartphones, iPads, or share them on their TV's. Sure, they have that big print above the fireplace but when it comes to the 5x7 for the office desk people are using digital frames. Pictures in the wallet are gone and seniors don't hand out prints to their friends anymore. It's the reality that we live in now.
But then you're also implying, like wbeem has, that giving files on a disc is always akin to fast food photography and that you can't get the same quality from a photographer who offers digital files. And that's simply not true.
I'M saying that's what they feel. And they, not me, are adamant about it. They won't change and I don't see them having to. They r in an area which people can afford and will use them generation to generation like we do.
Me personally I don't share my pics that I care to show off digitally. I print from White House. I don't keep OCD on my phone and rarely show stuff on my iPad. I don't use digital frames I think they suck and I'm not a fan of social sites. I use flicker but as a means to post something up here or on another board when I need to. Just me. We still get wallet size pics for my parents wallets of my kids. I guess I'm a really old fashion 35 year old! Lol
I actually just finished a 100 page album for my wife of this past year. I do one every year since we had the kids. All our Disney trips are in albums.
I would rather pay multiple hundreds of dollars for quality prints and have a high quality shoot vs going to a place like picture people and getting a disk and prints spit out while waiting. I know an extreme exams but it is real.
Again not saying there isn't people out there that do quality work and CDs bit around me there deff isn't.
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