Own All of Your Digital Files!

The best way to ensure the safe-keeping of your precious photographs is to own all of the digital files, which are included in our “All-Digital Session”.

It’s Never Too Late*!

You can still take advantage of the “All-Digital Package”. Simply pay the difference between your Trraditional session fee and the $700 session fee of the “All-Digital Session”. For example: if you paid $150 for your session, then you would need to pay only $550** towards all of your digital files from that session! ($700-$150=$550).

*Provided that we still have your files. We probably do, though… just have to look…
**Subsequent print orders cannot not apply towards the upgrade price, only the original session fee.

50% OFF prints on all print orders*** after upgrade!

That’s right: your cost for prints is cut in half as an added benefit of upgrading to the “All-Digital Session”. We’ll relaunch your portrait gallery (if expired) with the discount applied to all products!

***New print orders only. Discount cannot apply to print orders placed before upgrade to “All-Digital Session”.

… to complete your perfect wedding with a stunning album!

Our top-selling albums are more affordable than ever!

Check out our new album pricing here.

1 WEEK ONLY!

Purchase a 10″ album (or larger) with Kodak Metallic paper and we’ll throw in 2 6″ Parent’s Copies for FREE.

*Offer valid from 1/13/2012-1/20/2012.

Quality that lasts.

Any size album (8″-12″) includes your choice of any premium cover from Graphistudio’s vast cover catalog.

*Already ordered an album? Buy another as a gift got a loved one!

Ready to Order?

Simply call us at 719.359.5520 to place your order. We accept all major credit cards. You can also pay by check.

Like the prodigal sister returning home, our very talented and popular Kim Harms is back with Trystan Photography after a year of spreading her wings under her own studio brand. Kim had been with us for years before she announced she was striking out on her own.

We were so proud of her. She’s a very talented photographer, and she deserved the chance!

Turns out she loves taking photos, not running a business. That’s very understandable. It’s not for everyone.

That’s quite all-right, I don’t mind running a business and Char and I love having her back. She is an amazing person, and an amazing photographer.

Kim’s absolute favorite photo subject are those adorable newborn babies! So, if you’re having a child soon, or if you know someone who is, share this link with them and help Kim have a great Summer Welcome back with Trystan Photography.

Kim will also be photographing families and seniors for Trystan Photography as well. I’ll be updating those galleries soon!

Please help us get the word out by sharing this post on Facebook or Twitter:

… their wedding was featured on “The Best of Colorado Weddings” website today!

Thank you so much for all your hard-work and support, Jocelyn! Congrats on your wedding being featured. You deserve it, and all your hard work clearly paid off: it was stunning !

The world of online search has changed, and while www.trystanphotography.com is still searching very strongly on the search engines, Google now lists “local” or “places” listings first before the page ranked sites. We don’t appear on a lot of the local listings!

Which local listings appear is a very complicated combination of factors, but reviews count for a lot. As of right now our local listings on Google don’t have many reviews, if any (especially Denver!).

Could you please take a little time and leave some reviews for us on Google? We are so grateful for your business and your review would be a tremendous help to us.

If you can leave a review in all of the following, you are amazing. If not all, then please leave a review in the following order:

1) Google Places (Portrait and Wedding Clients. Please click “Write a review” 1/2 way down the page):

Denver Clients

Colorado Springs Clients

2) WeddingWire.com (all wedding clients)

3) Facebook (All clients)

We get this! We love the world of digital: sharing on Facebook, ease of use, inexpensive printing through any of the numerous consumer sites and labs out there…

… but that’s the dark-side. Chances are, because consumer labs are so inexpensive, you won’t get the kind of quality print you will get through a professional lab, i.e. Trystan Photography’s lab. But to get that quality, you have to pay the higher prices (in many cases, quite a lot higher!).

But that’s a choice each of our clients have to make. We try to make the pros and cons clear to our clients, and we do try and steer people away from a “purely digital” purchase, however, that is the momentum in our industry, and it’s what clients want today! We don’t fault anyone for wanting the digital files, but there is always a chance for dissappointment if printed elsewhere.

One of our awesome long-time clients just wrote me this morning with this tale of consumer lab woe:

“I do regret having someone else (I think it was Snapfish) print my favorite photo (file) from their session with you, even though I bought the rights to it…But it was not nearly as good quality printing as the other photos I got from you a la carte.  I want you to keep our files, as I will likely want to order a high quality print of that pic from you in the future.  If you’d please just not delete it, I hope I can buy it later on.  Feel free to post my comments on your website about how your print quality is superior.  THANKS.  – Linda”

Thanks, Linda, for your praise of our print quality. However, I do think the trend is moving away from high quality prints. It’s a paradigm shift for photography, and we just need to figure out how we’re going to adapt!

I’m thinking we’re going to make portraits a one-time (high$) flat-fee and include all the finished digital files, combined with a monumental lowering of the print prices through our lab. That way everybody wins: we make profit and the our amazing clients can still have files and affordable pro-quality prints? Thoughts?

Anyone else have a tale of “printing digital files” woe?

This individual, one-on-one, full day training is exactly what you need to get your wedding business churning. I’ll be offering certain days for class times between 10/11/2010 and 02/1/2011.

Download the PDF ( http://www.trystanphotography.com/wedding/ropes_web.pdf) for investment details.

From detailed evaluation of your business and pricing strategies, to the secrets of SEO and effective web presence, I’ll give you the foundation to grow your clientele without breaking the bank on marketing.

Our day will also include hands-on learning as I stage for you the most demanding shooting situations and also the worst-case scenarios I’ve encountered at weddings. We’ll discuss techniques and lighting philosophies that will enable you to overcome everything a wedding can throw at you. Armed with all this, you’ll never miss a shot!

I’d prefer to do each full-day class on an individual (one-on-one) basis, but we do have buddy and group rates for “The Ropes”.

Please call 719.359.5520 for details, or write me at trygve@trystanphotography.com.

Don’t miss out on our annual wedding special!

If you book your wedding with us between 9/28/2010 and 1/31/2011 and include a Graphistudio wedding album, and get two 6″ parent’s album copies FREE!

It’s a great savings and a wonderful gift for your parents. Schedule your consultation today!

In Denver call 303.872.4678, and in the Springs call 719.359.5520 or e-mail us at info@trystanphotography.com.

Check out our sample Graphistudio album layouts

It’s a revolutionary way to think about fine art photography. They are two portrait programs optimized for the two most pressing demands we’ve seen from our wonderful clientele over the last 6 years:

a) “The Trystan Way” is a guided, hands-on approach to the creation of custom artwork for your home and office.

b)”The Petite” is a fast, affordable, and easy way to get portraits to share online and access to the most popular sizes of standard prints for friends and family.

“The Trystan Way” is a premium service, entirely based around custom quotes for the commissioning of completely unique display art  in the home or office. “The Trysan Way” is the pinnacle of fine art photography. We’ll help you from start to finish, from planning to installing the final piece on the wall.

In this age of digital photography, many aspects of the art and power of photography are becoming lost to more imminent needs such as ease of sharing and access to the digital files. While we will not deny that it is a wonderful thing to share these amazing moments and photos with family and friends all over the world, we feel it is imperative that our clientele still have an option to take advantage of one of the most rewarding and satisfying experiences of fine art photography: the creation of custom art that surpasses mere portraiture and becomes a priceless heirloom for generations to come!

While this service does mean you’ll need to make a more meaningful investment than “The Petite”, it provides each client with expert guided care along every step of the process of creating stunning artwork for the home.

No concept is too aggressive. Dream big and beautiful and become part of “The Trystan Way”. Please visit our pricing page or call us at 719.359.5520 for more details on the “Trystan Way”.

“The Petite” is the best of both worlds: the finest photography, but in a more compact and timely form.” The Petite” is perfect for those who know they won’t want wall portraits, and are interested in standard sizes (from wallets to 8×10′s) or digital files. It includes a Mini-session, online proofing and ordering for two weeks. It’s fast, easy, and (other than the session), done completely from the comfort of your own home!

 

 

Nearly a month ago, our main business phone number of 6 years was “slammed”. That’s when somebody fraudulently poses as you, and steals your number. To what end I don’t know. Initially, our number just went dead, but then it started ringing to a family here in Colorado Springs!! They started receiving our business calls!!! And the best part, Vonage says it has no idea where the number is, but then it turns out the family getting the calls are new Vonage (SUCKS) customers! And for a month, that’s the story. A Vonage customer is receiving calls from our number, and yet Vonage says it has no idea where the number is. It’s been a nightmare.

I can’t believe how hard this was to fight the number slamming. Whoever faked our identity and put in the fraudulent transfer really put the screws to us last month. The phone line going dead really worried some of our wedding clients, obviously. How many potential business calls did we miss for portraits? My cell phone was ringing off the hook last month, but how many people didn’t find that number and just stopped trying?!?

I have to tip my hat to Verizon, though. Even though they were the company to which the number was slammed, they worked their butts off to track this down and find the fraudulent order and get the number back to Vonage (SUCKS). The rep from Verizon actually got into an argument with the rep from Vonage (SUCKS) because the Vonage (SUCKS) rep kept insisting that because the transfer was “authorized” Vonage (SUCKS) could do no more. The Verizon rep kept insisting that because the original owner was on the phone saying that the transfer was fraudulent, that Vonage (SUCKS) should file a fraud claim and take the number back! “Nothing we can do: it was a “legitimate” transfer…”

“I am telling you it is fraud. It’s me!! I’m telling you this, THE OWNER OF THE NUMBER!!”

“Yeah, but the transfer was legitimate” Dear God, I might have reached through the phone and done horrible things at that point…

1 month Vonage (SUCKS)!!!! 1 month you’ve left me, my business, and my family hanging. The entire “single contact” department at Verizon was working on this at one point with conference calls and constant contact with me. My “Executive Response Team” member at Vonage (SUCKS) won’t even return my phone calls for the last two days.

Did I mention they charged me a $90 cancellation fee and a $50 activation fee because I “transferred” the number out and then brought it “back in”? What a bunch of incompetent fools.

Tryg and I have decided to do donate to the silent auction and hopefully we can attend the event as well.  MyLifeline.org looks like an incredible foundation and I’m hoping to get involved with this more.  If you are interested in making a donation or becoming a company sponsor please contact:

Kristen Kirsh

@ Alisa Benay Bridal Couture

Cell: 303.646.7055

www.alisabenay.com

www.alisabenay.com/blog

Kristen represents a bridal line “Alisa Benay Bridal Couture.”  which are incredible vintage inspired wedding gowns, and the designer is local. You should check out her website if you get a minute. These dresses make me want to plan a 2nd wedding (to Tryg again, of course)!

For those of you that are not a fan already: 1st of all, “Shame, shame…”, 2nd of all you need to get over to the fan page (http://www.facebook.com/trystanphotography), become a fan, and check out the note we wrote about the new “Facebook Fan Foto Contest”.

Fabulous prizes, fame, and unending amounts of envy from others await you and your favorite wedding photo!

L Boudoir is now the premier boudoir studio in Denver and Colorado Springs. Charlotte’s art has achieved new heights of unmatched skill, and we’re so excited to showcase it within such a sexy new brand like “L Boudoir”.

So please stop by the new blog-site! Ladies: make sure to share it with your friends, and make sure to grab the L Boudoir RSS feed so you can stay up-to-date on all of Charlotte’s latest announcements!

Got a Facebook account? Become a fan of L Boudoir’s Facebook Page here.

Don’t miss out on your chance to win fabulous prizes.

It’s easy to enter. Simply go to the discusssion board at our Facbook Fan Page and check out the official rules. Oh yeah, you have to have a Facebook profile to play. (Sorry Myspace users.)

What is a VFC (Viral Fan Challenge)? It’s a series of simple steps that you have to complete that will promote Trystan Photography virally through social networks.

What are the fabulous prizes? You can chose to have your name entered in one of two drawings for either a brand new Ipod Touch (8 GB), or a $500 gift certificate to Trystan Photography. Interestingly, there a very few entrants for the Ipod: everybody wants the gift certificate. (What do you think about them apples, Apple?!?)

So check out the rules, complete the challenge, enter the drawing… and good luck!

Well, it would be fun to win an award this year.

So, we humbly ask if you valued your photography from us, if you could please venture on over to the CS Indy’s Online Ballot and pencil us in for “Best Photographer” that would be awesome! (You’ll find that category at the bottom of the survey)

We are absolutely honored by the demand for our work.

The Highlights:

All packages now include the wedding & engagement digital files on disc.

The engagement session now includes a custom photo book for guests to sign.

Graphistudio albums include Kodak Metallic pricing.

It’s rare when you stumble across a talent so gifted and natural that it inspires you as a photographer.

Photography is hard for most. It’s easier for some. And then there are the few that make it look almost effortless.

Kim Harms has that kind of talent. She takes photos that are so stunning, and yet she is so unassuming about the whole thing, that it kindles a kind of jealousy within me. That’s right. I said it. Jealousy.

Char and I knew we were onto something special years ago when Kim first started assisting for us. She has this incredible eye which coupled with her completely unassuming demeanor makes it very fun and relaxing to shoot with her. She never seems stressed, she never seems bothered, and photography never seems hard for her.

And the best part is there has never been a photo shoot of her’s that we didn’t look through the shots and think at least once: how did she do that?!?

Charlotte and I are her biggest fans. And I couldn’t be more excited or proud to announce that Kim Harms has paid her dues, earned her stripes, and is now a lead portrait photographer with Trystan Photography!

All of Kim’s work is tremendous, but I think she especially shines in her newborn portraits and babies / kids portraits, which she’ll be specializing in for Trystan Photography. I’ve posted some of my favorites from her portfolio of newborn portraits below.

I just have one question: How does she get those babies to sleep like that!?! How!?! I couldn’t do that with my kids, ever.

So if you have an adorable newborn: call us!.. or know someone with a newborn: forward this onto them! You simply don’t see newborn portraits like these everyday!

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This is a convoluted story line so try and stay with me here:

Once upon a time there was a bride named Julia. She was in love with a guy named Matt. Matt proposed and Julia filled her days and nights scouring the internet and wedding magazines for the perfect wedding photographer. Eventually she settled on us (we won!!!), and they went on their merry way…

Not quite. Julia also happened to mention after she booked that she was really into photography, I mean like, really into photography and she was hoping she could start assisting us on weddings.

Well if I had a dollar for everyone that has called to ask us if they could start assisting us at weddings, well… I’d have $30 bucks. (That wasn’t nearly as impressive sounding as I’d have hoped…)

Just because Julia was a client did not mean she didn’t have to prove herself just like everybody else. So we asked for her to put together a little portfolio presentation for us. Now I’m a pretty picky guy, and Charlotte is even worse when it comes to critiquing work ( you should hear her “critique” this blog post). But when we saw Julia’s portfolio, we were struck by something unique in her photography. We’d seen a lot of other portfolios from much more trained photographers who had asked if they could assist, but none of them had that certain “something”. It’s that nameless aspect of a photo that captures your imagination and/ or your heart. It can’t be taught, sometimes it can’t even be replicated, but it’s there nonetheless. And a lot of her work had “that”.

So we emphatically said “yes” and she was assisting us within weeks. She took our oldest camera ( a D70 from 2004) which was the actual camera we used to start Trystan Photography. You see, she hadn’t actually worked on a digital SLR, just an old film camera. But within a few weddings it was obvious she was a natural. Her images were great, and the more she shoots, the more stunning her images are. She is truly passionate about photography, and you can’t teach or buy that in an employee.

So that was last October, and in the meantime it’s become really obvious that we’re getting way too busy and we need some help with everything. S, again we turned to Julia. It turns out that not only is she passionate about photography, but she’s rather anal and detail oriented to boot! So now all of those little details (like putting orders in right, getting paid on time, filing taxes… blah, blah, blah…) are actually going to get done.

So, if you get a phone call from Julia and suddenly you find yourself wondering what the heck happened to Charlotte and Trig, don’t worry: we’re still here! We’re just focusing on photography. Because we’re photographers. It’s great!

So obviously, we took Julia and Matt’s engagement photos a while ago, and I’m only getting around to sharing them now. But what a great way for all of you to meet her!

Matt is probably the chillest man on earth. I mean, he’s marrying Julia: he has to be! (ha, ha, ha Julia! … I have the power of the blog, and you don’t!)

Charlotte and Kim (our incredible Senior Portrait photographers) will be in attendance with amazing senior album samples and fun games and prizes!

Notice: If you’re looking for safe and really blasé senior portraits of the typical stale poses and hands on chins: DO NOT COME HERE! You won’t like your photographs.

However, if you love the idea of unique, highly stylized portraiture with the perfect blend of fine art and high fashion: Please come here! You’ll love your photos!

Parents: don’t be shy! Please stop and ask questions. We recognize that these senior class portraits aren’t like yours were back in the day, but I’m sure your son/daughter and Char and Kim will be able to explain why our style of senior photography is really, really, really a lot cooler than yours were! Sorry, but it’s true…

You can follow the link or click the banner to the left to check out Kim and Char’s high school senior portrait samples.