Adagio Photography NCL

I am available, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

Call me, any time, from 9:00a.m. until 10:00p.m., Pacific Coast Time. Just leave a message if I am not available. I'll get back to you within hours of your call.

Or, send me an email and I'll respond later in the day.

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Thousands of Dollars Worth of FREE Stuff

How much will all of this cost?

For more than 38 years, I have been a professional, Southern California, National Charity League photographer, personally providing low cost, high definition, digital (22 million pixel and 60 million pixel), medium and large format, professional photography services for a wide array of clients.

I continue to proudly offer;

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The best cameras produce the best results

Always have. Always will.

I use the medium format Hasselblad H1 cameras

and Phase One, 22 and 60 million pixel digital systems.

I use the best and the most expensive, medium format, high definition, digital camera systems... in the world.

I use the same high definition, commercial quality, 22 million and 60 million pixel, medium format cameras that NASA uses in outer space.

I won't use the inexpensive, much lower quality, amateur or consumer type, 35mm cameras.

I use the reliable, professional, medium format, 22 million pixel Hasselblad cameras because they produce the sharpest, high definition photos, with the richest colors and incredible fine details.

When I provide my National Charity League photo services, I know that I am providing my NCL families with a unique range of professional services.

NO ONE ELSE shoots with these very sophisticated Hasselblad H1 cameras, with this much extra studio equipment, for all this time and at all of these different locations.

NO ONE ELSE has pictures with the colors and high resolution details that are in all of my pictures because they shoot little, compressed, worthless, unsharp, un-Photoshopped JPEG files.

NO ONE ELSE shoots RAW pictures with a Hasselblad H1 at an NCL event. NO ONE!

NO ONE ELSE will Photoshop and sharpen every single picture before you ever see it.

NO ONE ELSE will become a part of your event, a part of your family, just to take your pictures... and then just give you their finished, lab-ready, Photoshopped, sharpened, 300dpi, JPEG and TIFF files just so you can do your own prints, whenever you wish, as often as you wish, at wholesale prices.

EVERYONE ELSE wants to charge you $35.00 for a 5x7 print or $400.00 for a 16x20 print... all from their awful, low resolution, unsharp, non-Photoshopped JPEG files!

My NCL families pay $.50 for their perfect 5x7 prints and $12.00 for their unbelievable 16x20's.

I'm unique in every way.

I have no competition.

I charge $140.00 per senior.

Typically, I attend the last practice dance as well as the official dress rehearsal dance, at the hotel. There, I shoot wonderful, candid or semi-posed, once-in-a-lifetime, emotional family pictures.

On the day of the actual event, depending on the volume of Seniors, I set up one or two complete photo studios, in a private meeting room, adjacent to the Ballroom. Each of the photo studios include 5 professional studio strobe lights and huge soft box lighting controls. This produces professional, beautiful, high definition pictures of young women with fantastic white dresses, soft skin and beautiful hair highlights.

Each studio is uniquely draped with multi-colored, hand-painted, muslin background fabrics.

I work with the senior and, if they wish, their entire family. Depending on the energy and preparation of each individual senior, I can shoot close to 200 professional, personal, perfect pictures, in about 15 minutes.

Fast, fun and easy.

After the private portrait sessions, I attend the entire Senior Presentation Ceremony and the dinner Reception that follows. I shoot the whole ballroom, the tables, their decorations and awards, all of their official presentations, their various dance activities, grandparent and sibling poses, senior social groupings and their special senior activities, if any.

Typically, I shoot more than 3,000 high definition, 25mb RAW file pictures at these events.

Afterwards, I personally convert, crop, color-correct, density optimize, Photoshop and sharpen every single high definition, 25mb, RAW picture file into beautiful, sharp, vibrantly colored, 300dpi, 2mb, 2x3 JPEG and 21mb, 8x10, TIFF files.

My families all receive several DVD's, with all of their amazing picture files, ready for printing at my professional, local, recommended photo lab.

My families own all of their picture files and they can print as many of them as they wish, up to 8x10, at wholesale cost, at any time that they wish.

Larger pictures absolutely need to come from larger files. I personally reprocess the selected, original, RAW files and then I prepare the final 300dpi, 16x20 and 20x24 TIFF files for printing. That produces the best results.

All of this... perhaps thousands of pictures... for only $140.00 per senior.

I have no competition.

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Nation wide, I have no competition!

This is simple!

Tell me what you want.

My professional services

Thank you for your time and your consideration. I appreciate this opportunity to present my work to you.

During the last 38 years, I have personally photographed more than 6,500 Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, Weddings, Debutante Balls, Private Parties and Corporate Special Events.

This is what I was born to do.

Some of my events have only lasted for an hour or so while others have gone on for more than 80 hours, spread out over several months.

I have worked with Representatives from the White House, Congress and Senate, as well as with government agencies, law firms, construction companies, helicopter companies, medical centers, ad agencies, national corporations, local businesses, non-profits and with thousands of individual families.

. My goal, in every assignment, is to capture the very soul of everyone and everything that I shoot. I am fast, quiet, obsessively detail oriented and professional.

. I will shoot from 150-200 pictures PER HOUR! I will shoot anything you wish.

. You will own and you will receive everything that I will graciously create for you and your family. I will own nothing.

. The Copyrights, for your images, will be transferred to you, upon payment in full. I will retain a limited reuse authorization, allowing me to use your images to help market my services online, in related publications, in my trade show booth and in my meetings. Nothing will ever be offered to anyone, at any time or for any reason, for reuse or sale.

. I will charge you $150.00 per hour, with a 1-hour minimum, plus expenses and Sales Tax. Beyond that 1-hour minimum, I will bill you in 15-minute (quarter-hour) increments. If you only need 3 and a half hours work, you will only be billed for 3 and a half hours work, plus processing, expenses and Sales Tax. With my help, you will decide, for yourselves, exactly how much time you will need to buy.

. If you want to simply set a budget ceiling, it will be very easy to set up your entire timeline. I will not exceed your budget ceiling. Just let me know how much you want to spend. We'll assemble your timeline based on your budget.

. Depending on how much actual time you buy, I offer thousands of dollars worth of FREE gifts, including free time, free helicopter rides, free meals and free pictures.

. If you are active military, the least I can do, to show my utmost appreciation, is to give you 50% off of your final cost for my services.

. I can work with almost any budget.

. I will charge you an additional flat rate of $300.00 to "post-process" all of your original 25mb or 65mb RAW picture files. This post-production, RAW file conversion process, has to be done and it takes me an extra day or two to complete.

. As required by the State of California, Rule #1528, Sales Taxes will be charged for all of my time and materials, for in-State assignments.

. This is my company, I will be your photographer and I will work alone unless the job is too large for me to complete in the time allowed. I never sub-contract with other photographers. I don't need an assistant, which will save you money. I don't need a second shooter. Normally, I can create more worthwhile, emotional, beautifully composed pictures, shooting by myself, than can a team of two or three less-qualified, 35mm shooters.

. I routinely shoot more beautiful, properly composed, properly exposed, sharp, high-definition, color-balanced, memorable, emotional, usable images than do competing teams of two or three less-qualified, less experienced, quality-challenged, 35mm camera shooters, at any event.

. I will arrive a couple of hours early, or, in the case of a Destination Event, a couple of days early, at your event, at no extra cost.

. I will be honored to personally shoot, post-process, Photoshop, sharpen and deliver all of your files. No one else works for me.

. I will shoot your wonderful, high definition pictures with the best cameras in the world... Hasselblad H1's. These are 22 or 60 million pixel, medium format, commercial-grade cameras.

. I will use my studio-quality, soft, flattering, body-wrapping, Lumedyne, on-camera flash system. I will also use multiple, powerful, Lumedyne, off-camera flash systems, with huge umbrellas and "soft boxes" to light up dark reception ballrooms. This is what makes my ballroom pictures look so good. These are the same kinds of lights and controls used for professional magazine shots.

. NOTHING will be shot with the smaller, lower cost, consumer-grade, lower quality, 35mm cameras. 35mm cameras can't synchronize their little 35mm cameras with their tiny flash units, at higher shutter speeds. So, 35mm shooters don't use "flash fill" and that makes their pictures look boring, dull and dark, especially outside.

. All of your incredible pictures will be color-balanced, cleaned, cropped, density-controlled, Photoshopped and sharpened before you ever see them.

. In about a week, you will receive and you will own all of your original RAW picture files and all of your converted, 300dpi, JPEG and TIFF files. All of your files will be transferred to your external, USB3, Western Digital 500GB hard drive.

. You'll be able to print your own sharp pictures at my preferred professional photo lab, called "A.V. Partners", in Santa Ana (949.955.3699) or at any professional photo lab in the country... or I can do it all for you.

. Your professionally-printed, Fuji, luster-surfaced, Crystal Archive, photographic, 8x10 prints will only cost about $2.50/each. 16x20 Fuji prints will only cost you about $12.00/each.

. You do NOT need to buy an album from me or from anyone else. However, if you want an album, you can build your own or, through me, you can buy any album, from any manufacturer in the world... at wholesale prices. Beautiful, professional album materials start at about $500.00.

. If you would like my help designing a beautiful "Coffee Table" album, I will charge $100.00 per hour for any of my professional album design services. There are as many different albums and album design ideas as there are people to buy them.

I would love to meet with you at your home, office, church, temple or hotel lobby. You will be able to see, with your own eyes, the amazing colors and details of my huge, 16x20 and 20x24 sample pictures. I urge you to compare my work with anything you have seen from any other photographer around the country.

There will be no pressure, no obligation and no cost for this first meeting. It will be my pleasure to meet with you and your family.

I'm not a picture "salesman". I'm just a professional photographer.

My wonderful work speaks for itself.

And, I offer thousands of dollars worth of FREE stuff, including helicopter tours, meals, pictures and time.

These National Charity League, Senior Presentation events are fun, complex, sophisticated, essential, wonderfully important moments in the social spectrum for many powerful, successful, affluent, Southern California families.

I have never seen such a fine group of future leaders, corporate titans and brilliant, beautiful young women. These senior debutantes spend 6 years as volunteers in various social endeavors. They maintain 4.0, or higher, grade point averages. They are involved in numerous after school activities, all the while working and playing with their best friends.

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I would be pleased to personally meet with your NCL Board of Directors and with your parents, to show them, first hand, exactly what I am talking about. I will bring my cameras, my lighting equipment and loads of beautiful 16x20 prints. I will personally explain why my pictures look so good and why, even at $140.00 per senior, your NCL families will still save money and get more than any other potential photographer.