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1. Why should I pay money to someone named Skippy to take photographs of me or for me?

If you take yourself too seriously you probably shouldn't. If you don't mind having some fun with a smile on your face then you should. The most important thing to understand about me is that I am very serious about what I do (photography) but I am not very serious about how I do it.

2. Why doesn't your web site have flash animation and play obnoxious music which can't be turned off?

Because those things will only annoy you and slow you down. I want you to find the information you need as quick as you can, evaluate my ability to meet your needs and then act upon that evaluation. I don't want you to be annoyed by music I like or flash files that take too long to download, or worse yet will not play.

3. What is your formal education in photography?

Formal education? I've taken a six college classes in photography and digital manipulation. I don't put much faith in formal education in photography nor a multitude of other fields. There is something to be gained from academic study of photography. I've read a number of books about photography that are fantastic. In the end you can only learn photography by doing photography. Doing photography for a couple of semesters doesn't really cut it. I've been doing this for 24 years and counting. On top of that, lots of my photographs have been terrible. Yes, terrible. Those are the photographs that teach you something. An artist can't really learn much from his good stuff, but the bad stuff speaks volumes.

4. What equipment do you use for a session?

Depends on the session and what we are trying to achieve. I have three cameras to work with. A medium format film camera, a 35mm film SLR and a digital SLR. Sometimes I use ambient light or I can bring four high-powered lighting instruments.

5. Where do I find details about the cost of hiring you?

Go right here for pricing information for hiring Skippy of Time/Place Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. Wow, what a blatant self-promotion that was.

6. I don't see any photographs on your web site that look just like what I want. Why should I consider you for my photographer for a project this important to me?

Of course you don't see any photographs that look just like what you want. That's because you are a unique person. The photographs I take for other people, including for myself, can't look like what you want. Only the images created for you, with you, and by you, can be just like the images you need for your project. That's why Time/Place is customer centred.

7. What do you mean by customer centred?

I embrace the fact that everyone is different. You have some notion of what sort of portrait you want, even if you don't know how to engineer that portrait or even how to articulate what you want the final product to look like. That's my job - to elicit from you the final images as they appear in your mind - then to engineer the technical aspects to create that image. Sure, I'll toss in some creative ideas as well, yet the final goal is to realize your vision, not mine. That's why I don't have any backdrops, nor to I have any guide books called "101 Poses For Boring Portraits".

8. What is On The Fly Photography?

On The Fly Photography is the outlet for doing the stuff I wanna do as opposed to the photography I do for others.

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