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photos by Venture

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jinna · 19/09/2003 12:08

has anyone had their photos done by a company called Venture - got a leaflet through today and they seem to do very natural pictures

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fio2 · 08/10/2003 11:00

I have had watercolours done of my children by an artist in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. They are beautiful. Very unusual and colourful. They cost 60 pound each and are about a3 size. Well worth the money.

RockingRosebud · 12/10/2003 21:39

Don't forget a scanner will take great copies of the photos too. No need to fork out 100's for several copies of the same print. Ow did I say that, slap my hand!

Where is Much Wenlock, anywhere near Nantwich please?

codswallop · 12/01/2004 19:46

sister inlaw got an offer from the back of the Bristol zoo mag recently - sitting and first print all for £25

popsycal · 12/01/2004 19:47

yes - but you go and get the sitting then want to buy all the photos as they are so lush - that whats loads of my mates did
i dare not go because of this
and they are vvvvv expensive
but lush

codswallop · 12/01/2004 19:49

Lush - Lol - you spend too much time at school!!(dont get a cob on!)

I would photocopy them!

popsycal · 12/01/2004 19:54

they make you buy them in frames or mounted in an album
oh and you can't take them away from the studio....
dont get me wrong - i would love to get ds done
if i had several hundred pounds and a smithering of willpower

codswallop · 12/01/2004 19:55

No she gets he first print for that too I think

codswallop · 12/01/2004 19:55

Oh I see - cant you scan it...?

popsycal · 12/01/2004 19:57

they are in a photo frame
or in a huge album....
they are amazing but i couldnt trust myself to get the sitting and one photo
loads of people i know have eneded up spending hundreds...and that was being restrained!!

eidsvold · 12/01/2004 22:05

we were lucky - dd had her first school pic taken ( at all of 16months old) it turned out gorgeous and for £19 we got 1 8x10, 2 7x5, 8 passport size and 6 6x4. We were lucky it was such a gorgeous picture. So now the relies have one each - came with cardboard mount as well and dh and I have one each on our desks and we still have the largest one for framing.

popsycal · 12/01/2004 22:08

we got similar ones from pixie prints - at ouir local boots store

nutcracker · 12/01/2004 22:21

All of my kids have had pictures done at boots and i have generally been very pleased with them. I did consider having ones taken by Venture but when i tried to ask them about prices they were very cagey. I am considering trying a photography studio by my dads, they let them dress up and seem pretty cheap.

Twinkie · 13/01/2004 09:42

Had DD done at venture - they were great - although we spent £380 - that was for 5 photographs but the photographs of DD were beautiful and we even bought on of the three of us together which is unheard of DP and I don't do photographs and specially not ones of us together - YUCK!!

Willow I willalso email you as would love more stuff done of DD - although we have 'ART' hanging in our house and not sure where I would put anything else!! (Oh the ART is DPs not mine - he thinks it will make us rich when we are older - I think it make shouse look impersonal and weird and means every surface is getting covered with phots as we can't have them on the wall!!)

melsy · 13/01/2004 10:26

Just a thought

Willow2 have you thought about getting your friend to do a website for her work??? Just a few pages with images on and contact details?? Some servers offer free ones if you are a subscriber??

You may be able to find someone on here who knows HTML and would do it for a small fee???

willow2 · 13/01/2004 21:56

Go to here !

popsycal · 13/01/2004 22:02

twinie - £380 - that is restrained from what I have heard!!!
I REALLY want to get photos done by venture but am still rather cynical
I love what i have seen!

Freddiecat · 14/01/2004 12:45

Soem friends of ours had the full Venture treatment. They are really nice pictures (but as I pointed out they can't have any more children now!)

We decided not to have any professional pictures taken of DS. Instead what we have done is invest in a good second hand SLR camera and buy good film. We then take lots of pictures and accept that out of one film we might only get 2 or 3 great pictures.

The best effect we have had is when we take a sequence of photos of DS and then put them together in one of those multi-frames. One sequence we have 3 is of me and DS walking into the sea on holiday. Another is 3 of DS splashing in a formal pond in a garden and 1 of him soaking wet afterwards. One of the reasons these pictures work is that we are wearing fairly plain clothes in similar tones (bright pastels or navy and white). Both frames look absolutely stunning and we've spent a maximum of about £70 plus the camera - and have tons of other photos we can enlarge at our leisure.

ThomCat · 14/01/2004 12:59

I went to Venture just before Xmas and fell madly in love with 90% of the pictures. They were out of this world. I settled on 2 and can't wait to pick them up this weekend.

I'm a photo freak and haveloads of lovely pictures of Lottie but I can never have enough.

The pics done at Venture were right up our street, stylish and funky not a typical portrait picture at all. Every time I have cash to spare, and it'd have to be at least £175 which I know is a lot, but I'd go again and agian as Lottie changes to capture her in print and treasure forever. That's me though - photo mad - I just love taking and looking at photos.

PS - Willows mate that does the oil paintings is fab. I'm desperate to commision her as well when I can afford it.

katierocket · 14/01/2004 13:08

we had some Venture shots done - spent £450 which we could ill afford. I do really love them and they are very different to typical cheesy children's portraits, babies on blue cushions, dressed up as fairies etc. Having said that I do think they are overpriced although not really comparabale to traditional portrait photography.

misdee · 14/01/2004 13:40

just been to 'THE CLICK STUDIOS' with my kids. photos were nice, tho they only managed to get 5 pics before the kids refeused to co-operate anymore. they tried the hard sell, but i stuck to my free print, but i am gonna spend more at venture i know.

Hulababy · 14/01/2004 13:44

Some independent photographers will do Venture-style photos too and they are often a lot cheaper. I know of one not far froom where we are and you get about 1 hour in a studio, can have several people in and out of different shots and the child can just play whilst the photographers snaps away. You can take different outfits too. He uses a digital camera and takes loads and loads of shots, which you can view there and then. Not used it but I did have a look before I heard of Venture. Seemed much more reasonably priced.

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