Surprise your boo or surprise yourself!! Take advantage of my special 1/2 price boudoir session sale available until February 14th only. Sessions done after the 7th will not have guaranteed Valentine’s Day delivery, but you’ll still be able to take advantage of the special rates until the 14th.
These packages can be customized for a Boudoir Party with you and your friends. Ask me how!
A Whole Lotta Love $900 (Usually a whole LOTta more!)
• 1-2 hours of shooting time in my home studio, your home or hotel room* (1-2 outfit changes)
• Professional make-up artist
• 20 page book with leather or custom photo cover
• 30 fully-edited images on CD with printing permissions**
• 16x20 framed photo of your choice, 4-5x7 prints & 8 wallets
Queen B $500 (Save 500 bucks and go buy a fur coat!)
• 1-2 hours of shooting time in my home studio, your home or hotel room* (1-2 outfit changes)
• Professional make-up artist
• Your choice of one of the following options:
• 20 page book with leather or custom photo cover
• 20 fully-edited images on CD with printing permissions
Lady Marmalade $350 (Chez cheap!)
• 1-2 hours of shooting time in my home studio, your home or hotel room* (1-2 outfit changes)
• Your choice of one of the following options:
• DVD with all of your digital negatives with printing permissions (not edited)
• 16x20 framed photo of your choice, 4-5x7 prints & 8 wallets
Sweetest Taboo $250 (This quiet storm's usually $500)
• 1-2 hours of shooting time in my home studio (1-2 outfit changes)
• 10 retouched digital images w/printing release
• 25% off print & album purchases
Custom and ala carte pricing is also available.
* Hotel fee and travel outside of the Baltimore area not included. I will also travel to DC, Northern VA and most of Maryland. Please ask me about travel rates.
** It will take at least 5 days to edit 20-30 images. You will need to book your session for before January 31st.
fiesty' photos in time for valentine's day!
please participate in my wedding prices survey!
I'm in the process of changing all of my pricing, specifically wedding photo packages. I'm sending out this survey to see what my target audience (smart, fun, beautiful women) wants and finds value in. I realize that some of you are already married, but your experience will help tremendously. Please read below and answer by Friday afternoon. You can leave your responses in the comments or email me at lakayem@gmail.com. Thanks!
1) I plan to offer the following services on all wedding packages:
Engagement session
Engagement session proof book
8 Hours of coverage
2 Photographers
DVD with about 500 digital wedding images
What would you expect to pay for this service?
What else would you expect to be included in the basic service?
2) Do you think albums are valuable or outdated? If valuable, what sizes would you consider?
a. 7x7
b. 8x8
c. 10x10
d. 12x12
e. other size (describe)
3) Which add-ons do you consider valuable? (select as many as you like)
a. engagement photo slideshow
b. wedding photo slideshow
c. iPod touch loaded with wedding images
d. $500 credit toward print purchases
e. 4x4 mini albums w/ paper covers (same design as wedding albums and can be used as thank you gifts)
f. save the date photo postcards
g. 11x14 engagement photo with mat for guests to sign at wedding
h. large gallery canvas-wrapped photo
i. professionally framed prints
j. images to put on facebook, myspace etc.
4) What size prints would you be likely to order and/or display? (select as many as you like)
a. wallets (8 per order)
b. 4x6
c. 5x7
d. 8x10
e. 8x12
f. 11x14
g. 16x20
h. 20x24
i. larger than 20x24
5) I would like to give my couples thank you gifts for working with me. Which of these would you find valuable? (select as many as you like)
a. gift certificate for starbucks/restaurants
b. gift certificate for yoga classes
c. box of fancy local chocolates
d. gift certificate for hair/make-up services
e. gift certificate for spa services
f. thank you photo-postcards to send to guests
6) What would be the single most important factor in hiring a photographer? (choose 1)
a. quality of website/online portfolio
b. referral
c. low price
d. quality of printed wedding samples
7) would you prefer an all-inclusive wedding package, or to create your own custom wedding package?
Thanks in advance for your help! If you know another smart, fun, beautiful woman who would participate in the survey, please forward it to them. Remember to return your responses by Friday if possible!
my mamma!
After many months of encouragement and research, my mom has started a community newspaper called the Hampton Roads Gazeti. I'm so proud of her! Please check out her blog and PLEASE follow it and leave her comments. We all need as much encouragement as possible.
a tale of two blogs
a few folks have been tuning in to my blog here on blogspot. this was a great tool for me before i got my new website up and running. but now with a blog as the homepage of my website, i debated if having this one would be redundant or worth it.
the solution i've come up with is to use my webpage strictly for photo-related topics, and use my blogger account for my musings and random thoughts as i turn from a part-time photographer to a successful, full-time, fancy schmancy photographer. i'll share my trials as well as my triumphs and maybe others can learn for me, or at least be amused. a few posts may be redundant, like when i annouce sales and changes to my pricelists, but for the most part i will have separate content-so now you need to visit both places! :)
thanks for staying tuned.
lakaye,
the fancy schmancy photographer
My New Site is Up!
There's no time like the new year to start fresh. In 2009, I'm starting a new career as a freelance photographer and with that comes having a new website. Please check out http://www.lakayembah.com and let me know what you think.
The site is still very much in beta-testing phase and any comments would be appreciated. For instance, I only know how it looks on my mac laptop and everything is great. But you may have a giant screen or slow connection that might effect the way it looks.
So if you wouldn't mind...please check it out.
Thanks!
i have some great friends!
I'm going through this transition from full-time employee to all-time freelancer. It's not a lonely journey thanks to the help and support of some really good friends.
My homegirl, Kelly, of Kelly Blue Yoga, took me to dinner to explain the ends and outs of business record keeping. Now I have my very own big ass binder that I plan to fill with important business info in the new year. Hana, who survived a similar situation, gave me a lot of useful tips for staying sane and is one of my biggest champions. Nache of Creative Route is a web developer and graphic designer who not only allowed me to photograph her wedding, but also stayed on the phone with me for two hours while talking me through the development of a good website. Thanks to her persistnace (and bossiness!) my new site will be up & running by January 6th! I'll keep ou posted on the development. Last but not least, my diva friend Wendy is making big moves in the make-up world. We plan to collaborate on several projects in 2009. I encouraged her to sign up for a blog today because she has tons of great info to share about being fierce! So when that's up, I'll share.
I just want to show gratitude for their help & support.
miss bria's head shots
My friends Kelly and Hana passed my holiday promotion flier to their coworker Kim, and she brought her beautiful daughter, Bria to my studio for some headshots. Here's one of the photos from the session and I'm working on more. Isn't she a cutey patootey?
