Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Blog Entry 13: Holiday Portraits

Over the past two years I have offered to do simple photos to slip into your holiday cards I know they weren't the best quality but they were fun and people loved them. Here are just a few I can show from the past two years



This last one I took on christmas and became a christmas favorite for the next year. :)

This year I decided to go all out kind of and offer some economy priced Christmas photos and invested in a christmas backdrop and do photos straight from home since I got an amazing gift of strobes over the summer. 


Quick Rant:

This is not my first background choice but it is cute right? 
Any whoo I ordered this backdrop from Backdropoutlet.com and they took the money out right away and before even sending an invoice of expected shipping day and confirmation of payment. A week went by and I got an order sheet.  Two weeks later nothing. Three weeks later I emailed them just for a status and I was told the backdrop takes 2-3 weeks to make-understandable but then when I asked about my other drop-a fantasy drop they said it was on backorder when I placed my order. When I was ordering these backdrops I specifically made sure I didn't order anything labeled on backorder because I needed it for mid november. The one I ordered said in stock, after overlooking my invoice again I realized it said backorder.

For three whole weeks my candy drop said shipped, and fantasy cloth backorder. After complaining I got my candy drop sent because they were going to wait till my fantasy cloth became available. It is now December 4, 2013 and I have yet to receive my last backdrop.

Lesson learned and lesson taught:
Going for the cheap isn't always the best route and i'll probably never order from them again. So i'll stick to plain white, grey, and black paper drops and just photoshop in the fun later. 

-Silvia Kay