Picture this, you are at your local department store grabbing a few things for your new home. You wander down the décor aisle and spot the perfect picture to hang over your fireplace! It is a black and white photo of gray horses running through a field, you take it home and hang it up with pride. That is until you meet the neighbors, and they have that same exact picture in their dining room. Oh wait, the in-laws have it in their bathroom too? Even worse, your friend asks “Is that your horse?”. You go home and stare above your fireplace wishing you had something unique, I get it. Here are 5 reasons you should skip the décor aisle and call your local photographer.
#1- Everybody Has It
Like I said, you can walk into any house, apartment, or office and find the exact same photo you were just looking at in the décor section of your favorite department store. Hiring a professional photographer to create a portrait of your horses, dogs, and family to place above your fireplace will quickly become a statement piece in your home nobody else has.
#2- Quality Control
Purchasing a picture in the décor aisle may seem like the easier and more affordable route at first; however, your picture will not withstand the test of time. Department store wall art is mass-produced in the most affordable method for the company, this oftentimes means low-quality products that will fade, dent, or fall apart in no time. Hiring a professional photographer that works directly with a high-quality artwork provider will ensure you have heirloom artwork that will last generations.
#3- Impersonal
This one is pretty obvious, you have no idea what those horse’s names are in that department store picture, nor do you know where the photograph was created. Hiring your photographer to come out and create custom portraiture of your horses will not only give you one of a kind artwork, but it also takes you back to the day those images were created. You will remember the smells, the sounds, how your horses were acting and most importantly, you will remember how proud you were to see that finished product hung above your fireplace.
#4- Emotions
There is an emotional piece that comes with each and every portrait session, what emotions do you feel standing in the décor section of a store? Hiring your photographer to create a memorable portrait will freeze a moment in time. Looking back on portraits with people or animals that may no longer be with us allows you to take a step back and appreciate the artwork you had created years prior.
#5- Sizing
The final reason is a big one, sizing the artwork on your walls. When you look in the decor section of a store you have so many options, but which one is best for your walls? It is so easy to pick the wrong photo for a room, sometimes you need something a little bit larger other times the color just won’t work. Hiring a photographer like myself includes interior design work! This means you will see what your portraits will look like on your walls in the appropriate sizing and positions, that way everything is custom catered to you and there are no surprises!
Keeping these topics in mind the next time you are browsing your local department store could save you from blending in with each and every other house on the block. If you haven’t scheduled a portrait session yet, visit https://bit.ly/2TONzwB to begin your next interior design journey!
-Charlotte
