Gregory Geiger and Caralee Kamens of Gregeiger Company Unlimited, Inc. will capture all the emotions of your wedding day events with sensitivity and perception.  They have the ability to create a photographic narrative without formally posing each photograph.  By watching, sensing, and anticipating actions of the event, Gregory and Cara are able to capture memorable moments.  The result, a timeless photographic creation of your wedding.

Canon professional digital cameras will be used to create images of the wedding events.  We bring three cameras, additional lenses and four flash units as back-up equipment.  Digital photography permits a greater expression of creativity and faster turn-around time.  Images will receive better detail correction which will permanently be copied to you on a DVD or CD-ROM disk.  For family and friends that live out of the area, we can post the entire set of wedding images on the Gregeiger.com website. 

Leather Craftsmen can be used to hold your wedding day photographic memories.  Each album will be custom designed, based on your selections.  Each image is individually  cropped with enhancement done as needed.  You will receive your files of images on CD-ROM disks within fourteen to twenty-one days of your wedding. Your CD-ROM images can be printed to an excellent quality 8" x 10" print.  For coverage that includes prints, delivery times are within 30 days of your wedding.

Hourly Rate Coverage*                                                         

o A 7 hour minimum, the time begins upon leaving Conn. and paper prints provided

o CD-ROM or DVD disk only of all the images created                  

Level One Coverage                                                            

o Complete custom designed coverage of the entire wedding event.

o 1,000 plus photographs provided for viewing, selection and retention.

o One Leather Craftsmen wedding album containing 50 pages.

o Two separately designed Leather Craftsmen wedding albums containing 30 pages.

Level Two Coverage                                                          

o Up to 10 hours of coverage.

o 700 plus photographs provided for viewing, selection and retention.

o One Leather Craftsmen wedding album containing 40 pages.

o One separately designed Leather Craftsmen wedding album containing 30 pages.

Level Three Coverage                                                         

o Up to 7 hours of coverage.  Includes home, ceremony and the reception.

o 600 photographs provided for reviewing and selection.

o One Leather Craftsmen wedding album containing 30 pages.

o One Leather Craftsmen 6" x 6" wedding album containing 24 pages.

 Level Four Coverage                                                           

o Up to 6 hours of coverage.  Includes home, ceremony and the reception.

o 400 photographs provided for reviewing and selection.

o One Leather Craftsmen wedding album containing 30 pages.

(Overtime available at $350 per hour)                                                                                                                       

No additional fees for travel, hotels, car rentals or meals with Levels of Coverage

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Is Photography Expensive?

No, it is priceless!

That you may better understand the fees associated with providing photography coverage for a wedding, bar/bat mitzvah or party, please consider:

1. After booking your event there can be 1 to 3 hours of “pre-production” or prep time.  This is selecting the lenses and camera bodies best suited for your event.
   1. charging all the camera and flash batteries over a period of 24 hours before the event
   2. confirming addresses and phones numbers; getting directions, having a map in the event of a detour.
   3. Checking websites for firm-ware up-grades on the cameras and compact flash memory cards.  This prevents possible accidents where files are not recorded.
   4. Reviewing your file for notes and e-mail regarding specific images or events.
2. Travel time, in most cases for events in Connecticut and New York there is no travel fee.  Costs for gas and possible tolls are not charged to you.
3. When we work an event, we “work”!  No 5 minute breaks every hour, no “must eat in the same room as the guests”, we don’t stop for meals.
4. Post-production:
   1. The memory chips are copied to a computer hard drive, then the first of 3 back-up CD-ROM disks are made of your event.  Time to complete 1 to 2 hours.
   2. The files are sorted and put in “time-stamp” order and another set of CD-ROM disks are made. Time about 1 hour.
   3. Both set of CD-ROM disks and the files on the hard drive are checked to ensure there are no problems with reading all the files.  Time anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes.
   4. The memory chips are erased and reformatted for the next event.  About 30 minutes.
   5. The files are renumbered to a sequential number and another set of CD-ROM disks are created.  Up to 2 hours for a 1,000+ photo event.
   6. Each file is opened and “print enhancement” is done, to include exposure correction and adjustment so the print sets a mood and feeling; color correction for skin tones, sky, etc.; consider a change to B&W if the client likes the feel of B&W for some images.  Time about 2 minutes per file.  On an event with 800 files this is about 26 ½ hours of work!
   7. A set of CD-ROM disks are made after the print enhancement and the files are sent to the lab.  Time about 1 ½ hours.
   8. The prints are returned from the lab in close numerical order, we add a label on the back of each print that contains your names, date, event info and the file number so you can easily find the file on your CD-ROM disks.  This process will take 4 to 6 hours.
   9. Prints are boxed and shipped to you at your expense.
5. Album design:

Working with your selections we separate into an album folder the files that will be needed.  Then do a rough layout with the prints that you have returned, this confirms the right file was selected (dyslexic) and there is good flow or “story-telling” of your event.  Time 2 to4 hours.

1. Each print is cropped for the best “feeling” for the image, serious retouching is done on skin, eyes, lips and backgrounds.  We budget for almost 5 minutes per print.
2. A mock layout is made and sent to you either via e-mail of a hard copy is mailed for your final approval.  Company policy is for one (1) change at no charge, if you wish to make changes after the first one, the cost can to up to $50 per request.
3. After you approval is received, the files go to our professional color lab where they are printed on photographic paper and shipped back to the Gregeiger Co. Utd., Inc. office.
4. We check each print for correct color tones, any imperfections and that they printed the right size.  Time is about 1 hour.
5. The prints are then laid-out in the order they will be placed in your album.  An order form from the album maker is filled out and the back of all the prints are labeled with page number and placement on that page.  Time up to 1 ½ hours.
6. Prints are wrapped, boxed and packaged for shipment to the book-binder.  If these prints arrived damaged, the delay in album production can be an additional 2 weeks.  Time: 30 min.
7. About 3 weeks later the album is returned to the Gregeiger Co. office for final inspection.  Usually we turn around the album to you the same day we receive it. 

As the client you are receiving at least 32 ½ hours of production time for your event, plus the additional expenses for prints, CD-ROM disks and packaging and shipping.  We carry indemnification insurance, which means that in the highly unlikely event that there is a complete equipment malfunction and your event is lost, you receive a payment for those lost memories.  Additionally, we bring 3 professional digital cameras with us, 4 flash units and enough memory chips to record 2,000 frames.  There is no charge for posting your event photos to our website and a minimal charge if you need to have your CD-ROM disks replaced.

These are some of the differences between professional wedding  photographers operating a full-time photography business.  Yes, there are talented part-time photographers available to work at a much lower rate.  These people will need to cut corners to produce the photography for your event.  Perhaps it will be owning or bring less cameras, less batteries and flash units; perhaps they will not have as many compact flash memory cards.  Instead of hearing, "opps, I'm out of film, the new line will be, opps, my cards are all filled!"  A part-time photographer may not spend all the time doing print enhancement before making prints for you.  One of the new trends by photo labs is to make a proof book on 10" x 12" paper that contain 3" x 4" prints on a page, you usually don't get to keep these books.  We like to give you prints that you own.  The part-time person may not know how to enhance a print that will go into your wedding album.  I teach Adobe Photoshop to my photographic colleagues, once a month run a group of CT based photographers called: www.ctphotoshopusers.com.  Lastly, we only use an album company that has been in business for over 75 years.  They state their albums will last for your life-time, and we will provide that service to you.

Recently a wedding client from 1998 called the office,  the groom explained that his father-in-law had recently passed away.  He wanted to give his wife a reprint of her and her father dancing together as a gift.  As they had their negatives he was instructed how to find the correct negative to ship to us.  We scanned the neg, did some print enhancement with Adobe Photoshop and electronically sent it to a digital print center close to where he lives in Maryland.   From the phone call on Tuesday to his putting the photo in the frame on Friday evening we were able to make one of our past clients most happy.  The fee, totally free.  Were earned our income in 1998.  The difference between a full time professional photography business and a part-time, less expensive photographer. 

Our service "priceless"!

As you have been good enough to review this explanation, see our current prices.

Have a great event!

G. Gregory Geiger

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