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We Have over 10 years of professional experience photographing dancers and children, Photographer Jesse Flippen wants to put his unique knowledge and skills to work helping you plan a great picture day for your studio that will have parents actually looking forward to next years picture day!
Using just a little pre-planning and preparation ahead of time, your photo day can run smoother than ever as Jesse applies special techniques and systems adapted from the years he spent photographing hundreds of school children daily to your dance photo day. His extensive experience with dancers (and parents!) of all ages coupled with his artistic eye and humorous, laid back style helps assure that each portrait day runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible. We strive to be sure that everyone enjoys the experience of being photographed, feels positive about themselves afterwards, and that they all end up with great looking portraits when all is said and done...
Our high tech portrait studio is completely portable and can be set up in under one hour in almost any clear room with an open space of about 22'x16', fitting perfectly in the average dance studio room or even in a side room during a dress rehearsal at the recital hall. Parents no longer have to endure getting their dancer dolled up and kept clean while trekking down to a photo studio way across town only to be hit with outrageous sitting fees and print prices for your photographs. No lousy dime store head and shoulders only snapshots on cheap photo paper. Instead, we take top notch, full length & close up dancer portraits that showcase the dancer and the costume and we use only the best in processing and printing for best print quality.
Our main and most popular product is our high quality individual portraits of dancers, done conveniently right at your specific location with our high tech studio equipment making our portraits look the same as if you had come to a photo studio for a private portrait sitting to have them done. We use only the highest grades of professional cameras, lenses, lighting, film and paper to assure long lasting images with a high dollar look, and offer a range of different portrait packages that look great but feature fair and affordable prices to help ever budget conscious families know they are getting a high quality product and good value for their dollars spent.
Dancers parents really do appreciate the ability to get great photographs made of their little stars while they are already made up with perfect hair, dressed in full costume, and are already at the dance studio or rehearsal venue anyways. Parents already feel like they are running a marathon every day with all the craziness that happens leading up to a recital and by offering them the chance to have special photographic memories they will treasure for a lifetime done when and where it is convenient for them, they will really be grateful to the dance studio owner who is thinking of them and helping make their lives a little easier during a crazy time with one less thing to worry about and one less place to have to run around to under a deadline before recital day arrives.
Unlike many of the large "corporate" photo operations out there, when you deal with Jesse Flippen, you are dealing directly with the owner and sole photographer himself and the other owner of the company, his wife Susan. You never have to worry that some mega-studio is sending you some creepy kid with no experience or common sense to photograph (or scare) your customers. Jesse takes all the pictures himself and Susan usually helps oversee the administrative operations during a shoot. Together, they work to make sure your students have a great experience while being photographed and they project a professional image you will be pleased to have your customers interact with.
By doing all the photography personally, the number of studios and events that can be photographed each season is greatly limited and we are often booked well in advance from long time repeat customers, and who are given seniority on our first booked, first photographed policy. Our sincere desire is for honest, reliable, friendly service always and to find special schools where we can deal with like minded folks who appreciate true customer service and where we can develop long term business relationships and friendships.
We gladly offer the studio owner a chance to make extra profits directly for their studio by hosting a picture day, and studio proceeds from a successful photo day are often enough to cover a good chunk of hall rental or other outlays from a studios finances that happen around recital time. Depending on a number of factors, we offer commissions that are paid directly to the studio based on number of sittings. Some studio owners do not care about getting a commission and see picture day only as a service to parents, in which case we can often offer adjusted prices to their students as picture prices are often set according to commission structure.
Our other types of photography we do includes Dance Studios, Schools, Sports, and Events. If you are a dance studio owner looking for a highly qualified, experienced professional photographer that truly understands the unique needs of the dance field and can reliably produce images your dance students and parents will consistently love, give Jesse or Susan at Flip’s Photos a call today...
Thank You, Jesse & Susan Flippen