Photography Services - Private/Public

PHOTO MONTAGE

MONTAGE pictures are a basic mish mash of between 2 and 22 pictures all together on one background, there can be a theme to the picture or just a load of images stuck together to form a complete mess or a masterpiece of art and design. I like to think I'm creative and produce masterpieces but I have seen some really bad ones that take the form of diced carrots and here are a few samples that could give you some ideas.

Montage pictures can be very expensive especially if the client wants more than a few pictures in the jumble, when you get into dozens of shots like my sample the price is horrific and most people wouldn't pay.

COSTS - The reason montages can be expensive is down to the sheer amount of work and time it takes to produce the image - to produce one picture might take up to 20 minutes depending on what needs to be done but if you then have to edit 20 images then mount them seamlessly onto one master image, well you can easily see where the costs arise. The hardest part of any montage is mounting all the shots together so that everything fits perfectly and this can take many hours, so put that into real time money terms and the price for a 20 image montage is now

20 separate images @ £6.00 plus 3 hours work fitting the picture together @ £35.00 per hr.

20 x 6.00 = £120.00

3 x 35.00 = £105.00

TOTAL = £225.00

On top of that comes - Now what size does madam want? Which moulding of frame will you require?

Get the point? And that's without delivery. Everybody loves a montage picture but won't pay the true price or anywhere near because people only see the cost of the final product not what went into making it and most will complain bitterly if the charge for a 16 x 12 montage costs more than a standard single image of the same size. That's why well finished montage pictures don't sell but they still look terrific and totally unique and you will be the only person in the world to have one.

If you are after a one off photograph made up of several other pictures then either send the images to me and I will make the design or select the images from my gallery, if you do send them in the files will have to be as high quality as possible and even then I cant guarantee the final product.