$100 Print Credit Coupon on Google

We recently posted a coupon on our Google business page that is good for an additional $100 print credit towards any Wedding Package. It expires June 21, 2009... On my 30th Birthday and Luke and I's first Father's Day. The coupon is for new clients only and cannot be added to one of our additional specials we run randomly for a week or two. To redeem the coupon, you must book before June 21, 2009 and present us with the coupon at the time of the contract signing. If you have any questions feel free to contact us though our website.

-Rob-

Happy Birthday Cannon Jacob Babcock!

Black Tie Photography is proud to announce the arrival of our newest family member.... Cannon Jacob Babcock born 2/17/2009 @ 5:25 pm. Weighing 8 pounds and 7 oz and 21.5 inches long! So a big congrats to Luke and his wife Nicole! More pictures to follow in the next week or so....!

Valentines Day Special!

Ending February 14 at midnight!

To celebrate the special day, we are going to upgrade the St. Andrews package to a $600.00 print credit! That is an extra $100.00 for you to order more photo's or put towards an additional album! In addition, we are adding a free 8 Gb iPod Nano ( you choose the color ) loaded with at least 200 photo's from your wedding!

We are also upgrading the Grantchester to a whooping $900.00 print credit! $200 additional dollars for you to spend! We are also upgrading the free iPod Touch to a 16 Gb loaded with at least 200 photo's and.....you will recieve a $25 iTunes gift card to get you started with songs and video's!

You must place the 50% retainer by 11:59 pm Feb. 14 in order to recieve this insane special! Please contact us if you have any questions.

-The Black Tie Guys-

Package Special and other news....

For a limited time ( ending 1/31/09 at 12:00pm ) if you book a Hanover or higher package we will up the print credit by $100.00 for free! That's a lot of extra prints to cherish over the years. Book now as the season is filling up very quickly!

In other news......

We are proud to announce that the Wisconsin Rapids Soccer Association has chosen Black Tie Photography to shoot all the team's and individuals this year! They had many studio's to choose from, but our high caliber talent, high quality prints, and outstanding value could not be matched! Are we bragging? Yes, Yes we are! ;)

Traffic and more.....

Well, after reviewing the traffic of our old boring html site compared to the new flash site, we are up over 700%! So thanks to everyone that has hit our site!

We are also getting a lot of questions about our albums. So to clarify things, the album price includes the prints! And we highly recommend getting an album for 3 reasons:

Reason #1
I don't know about you, but I rather enjoy flipping through albums of my family and friends when I was a kid. Even better, flipping through my parents or grandparents albums! While viewing them online, or on the computer is nice, Nothing beats sitting around with friends and family looking at an actual print. Honestly, when is the last time you crowded around your computer with a bunch of people and looked at photos?

Reason #2
Technology has drastically changed in the printing process. The inks and paper used today will out last even someone born today! The printer we use prints with ink and paper designed to look the same 100+ years from now as the day it was printed.

Reason #3
Applies to both reasons above. Technology! How much has it changed in the last 20 years!? Remember beta? Atari? The original windows or apple operating system? While a cd of your images is great at the moment, you think you will be able to open a cd-rom disc in 20 years? Doubt it! Or even a dvd? They have almost compeletly phased out 3.5 floppy disks. VHS is on its way out, and Blue-Ray is making short work of dvd's. In another 20 years cd-roms and dvd's will be a thing of the past. Where will the prints be? Looking brand new in your album. No fuss or hassle to view them. Just some food for thought....

On another note, Luke recently did a family shoot and one picture really caught my eye! A very good example of our artsitic style and use of off camera lighting! Nice work as usual Mr. Babcock...

New Website Is Done! :)

To celebrate the new website, we are running a special starting tonight and ending Dec 19, 2008 @ the stroke of midnight..... 10% off all wedding packages! We are very excited and hope you enjoy the new site. If you have any questions or comments please contact us through the site.

We will also be updating the blog more often with news, pictures, and specials. So visit often to follow our progress. :)

Website update and new gear....

We are in the final stages of bring you a new flash based website. After looking at what internet connection people are using to visit our site, we found the 95% of the people are using DSL or faster. So we decided to drop the boring html site and go with a very clean and user friendly flash site. Some of the new features the site will have a password protect proofing section....with a cart! So you log in, add the photo's you want printed to the cart, select quantities and size's, pay via paypal, then just wait for us to contact you when they come in! Or, for example, if Uncle Bob from Florida wants some photo's printed, he has the option to have them shipped directly to him for exact shipping costs! So that will be one less thing you have to worry about doing, cause we will do it for you! :)

Buy doing this, it makes the entire ordering process quicker, easier, and more cost effective for both parties! While we own a business to make money, we have actually dropped our prices quite a bit as it saves us hours of time on every order! So why should we charge you for a service that will no longer be needed... do you agree? :)

In other News.....
We final got our Infrared camera converted. Check out our IR gallery to view some photo's of the neat things it does to landscapes and people. We are working on a process using a DSLR and the converted DSLR in which we take the same exact photo using both camera's. This allows us to use the color IR photo as the background, while leaving the people in full color. As soon you will start seeing it used during your photo shoots!