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Recommended Businesses in Sutton Coldfield

Recommended Businesses in Sutton Coldfield

I know a lot of my clients come from recommendations from their friends.  It’s the best and I love that you’ve been so happy with your photos, my service and the quality of my products that you would tell your friends and family to use me too.  It’s honestly the best complement I can get.

 

I once actually had a client leave my house after the shoot, call her best friend to book in for a 6-10 month sitter milestone session too – which she did within 20 minutes haha!

 

So I have decided that, as a thank you and to show my appreciation, to introduce a referral scheme.

 

For all new clients who book a full price session with me (this does not include mini sessions or special offers) I will be giving you £20 credit to use with me on your future shoots.  You can use the money towards your session fee, digitals, collections or printed products.   The more yu refer, the more you get!   

 This is open for all my previous clients.  £20 will be credited with me once the referral pays in full for their session and is valid for 24 months from that date.  All credit will be kept in my records.  The referral must mention you when booking for the £20 referral to be counted.  The credits cannot be exchanged for money and can oly be used with Nicki Byrne Photography.

Returning After Covid-19

Returning After Covid-19

As you may know, I am now able to offer social distanced outdoor photography sessions!  These can be for newborns (about 3 months), 6-10 month milestones, cake smashes or family sessions.  We’ve been incredibly lucky with our weather during lockdown and I am hoping that the beautiful evenings will continue.

 

To make sure we are safe, to protect you, your family, my family and my other clients, I have put several new procedures in place.

These include:

  • All bookings will be online or via the phone.
  • All sessions are outdoors in a quiet location with few general public about.
  • Only members of the same household can be involved in the photoshoot.
  • I will stay 2m away and direction will be given from a distance.
  • Any posing must be done by the parents.  Posing will be very limited.
  • If I do need to come any closer for an over head shot, full PPE will be worn (in accordance with government guidance).
  • Sessions will be shorter to minimise contact.
  • I will wear a face mask during the session.  Anyone not taking part in the session will also be asked to wear a face mask too should they wish.
  • Galleries will be delivered via an online gallery until the government guidelines state that it is safe for clients to be in my home studio.
  • Orders will take place via an online Zoom meeting where I can share my order screen with you.
  • Prints and Products will be delivered to you safely via courier mail should you prefer.  There is also an option to collect them from my drive (at a safe distance).
  • Digitals are to be downloaded via wetransfer
  • If you or a member of your household feels sick, or have been in contact with someone who has covid-19 symptoms, I am asking for the session to be rescheduled.

As always, props, outfits etc will be cleaned thoroughly before and after the photoshoot.

 

If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please get in touch!

 

Nicki x

What is the session fee for?

What is the session fee for?

When you run a business, how you price yourself is a difficult decision.  There’s a lot of research that goes into it.  Within the photography industry, there are many different options for how to price yourself.  I decided to go for the most upfront and honest.  The route of a session fee means that you only pay for the things you want.  Many photographers have a larger fee but include all the images – but what if you don’t want all the images?  Or you don’t want digital files you only want a statement piece of artwork for you wall?  This is why I chose to follow the session fee route.   You only have to pay for what you want.

 

The session fee for each photography session pays for my time on the day, my editing time (a session’s gallery will take me about 5 hours to edit), any props, outfits, specialist equipment I may need for your shoot, the running costs for that session (electricity if in my studio or petrol to get to a location) as well as my training and expertise.

 

With only a small session fee, it means that I am able to offer affordable, professional photography to everyone because everyone deserves beautiful photos, don’t they?

Puuuurrrrrfect Pet Portraits – Photographs of all your family members

Puuuurrrrrfect Pet Portraits – Photographs of all your family members

They always say, ‘Don’t work with animals or children.’  Well, I clearly don’t like to listen haha!  

 

As of today, the day that I am allowed to reopen after the covid-19 pandemic, I would like to formally announce that I am now able to offer studio and outdoor pet portraits.  

 

Our pets, both big and small, are such important and well-loved members of our family that they should have their own photoshoot too, right?!   Espcially these cute puppies!!!!

 

Is this not just the cutest thing in the world?  Not going to lie, I loved the cuddles too!!!!!

 

Your pets portrait can be any theme, colour or style.  

 

If you’ve got a pet and would like them to be photographed, I am currently open for outdoor portraits.  I will be open for studio portraits in September 2020 providing government guidance (re: the covid-19 pandemic) deems it safe for me in my small home studio.

How To Get Those Cute Pictures of Newborns During Lockdown

How To Get Those Cute Pictures of Newborns During Lockdown

My maternity leave finished in April and just as I was planning to be returning to the studio, we went into lockdown.  I was so looking forward to welcoming beautiful babies into my studio again after being on my maternity leave for 8 months.

But such is life.  We have our health and that’s all that’s important.

 

Being stuck at home with itching editing fingers got me thinking … digital composites!  I offer them within my studio newborn sessions anyway so it would be something that I could offer to my newborn clients while we wait until we can safely open for their photoshoot.

 

I’ve got a lot of requests and I am absolutely made up that so many people really love these images.  The digital backdrops I use are from the Luisa Dunn collection of digital backdrops.  Her work is stunning for sure.  She loves floral, pastel, colour and earthy tones so her backdrops fit perfectly into my newborn photoshoot galleries.  There are hundreds to choose from and I always guide my clients to her website https://www.luisadunnphotographyshop.com so they can choose the backdrop (or selection of backdrop if they can’t narrow them down!) they like.

 

They’re incredibly versatile too.  For example, this same backdrop was changed to suit it’s baby.  Arthur was in the original brown tones, Reggie – who is a Rainbow Baby – has his rainbow coloured, Lenny had blue tones and then Chloe had pinks and purples to match the other composites I did for her.

These sweet digitals show all the babies off perfectly in a beautiful surround.  Almost like we were able to do the real newborn photoshoot in my Sutton Coldfield studio!

 

There are, of course, lots of different backdrop styles to choose from.  Here are a few others I have used both in lockdown and also in my newborn sessions.

After my Facebook link advertising these digital composites was shared, a lady from NCT Sutton Coldfield contacted me and wanted to share my work too!  Absolute honour!  It’s such an incredible feeling when an organisation supporting new mothers reaches out to you like that.  And it was a pleasure to work with some new NCT families too.  

 

So if you have had a baby during the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 and would love to have a special picture like these, please get in touch!  Or if you know of anyone send them my way 🙂

Have you been pleased with my service?

It’s always interesting to me how you got to know about my business.  The majority of my new clients come from word of mouth – this means their friends have been super happy with what I have done for them that they’ve told their friends to use me too.  That is absolutely the best feedback I can get.  (As a side note, I will be introducing my refer a friend scheme VERY soon!!!).

 

The next most common is Facebook.  Facebook has really helped our small business community grow and I, for one, will forever be thankful to it.  Sharing my work, recommending me on groups when people ask for newborn photographers near Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Tamworth etc even just interacting with me posts all helps boost my visability so others can see.

 

When people come to choose their newborn photographer, they tend to put a lot of research into it.  And rightly so!  You want the person who’s taking your baby photos to know what they’re doing, be well trained and also to producce beautiful images.

 

That’s where your Google reviews come into play.  I always read the reviews on Google first for a business if the business is new to me.  It’s a huge thing!  To leave a google review, you just need to have an accoutn with Google and then click my link.  It only takes a minute.  It is very much appreciated from my end to all of you who do take the time to fill out a review and it really does make a difference to my potential clients.  I now always make sure I review small businesses that I have used as I know how much of a difference it really can make.

 

If you haven’t left a Google review but have been for photos with me, I would very much appreciate you taking the time to leave a review. https://g.page/nickibyrnephotography/review?rc

Thanks 🙂