1.  Creative Designs' photographers are new to photography.

True, we  have been in the photography "business" only a few years. But we (Cyndi and Shirley) are not youngsters to the business and customer service world – we have years of experience working with people and providing quality service. For each of us, personal photography has been a passion for many years. We both received our photography training at a top quality photography school (the New York Institute of Photography) and have taken lots of additional training from some of the best photographers around. We are also members of several professional photographers’ organizations. In addition, we were in business together doing web and graphic design for several years before we added photography to our services and it became our main business.

2.  Creative Designs' photographers only shoot “digital” and digital images are not as good.

As for our digital work – we certainly don’t apologize for that – digital photography and imaging is our passion and it’s the wonder of our era . We absolutely love our computers and are “geeks” when it comes to that. Our customers benefit from our expertise at graphics and digital imaging software through our great retouching and imaginative imaging techniques. We have state of the art camera and software, but our vision and our attention to detail is what sets us apart.

3.  Creative Designs is expensive – it costs a fortune to go to them.

Certainly it’s not a fortune to purchase our services and portraits. Our ala carte pricing is up there, because we don’t want to just do a “few great images” – we get carried away and do LOTS of great images for you with many wonderful poses and backgrounds. We spend a LOT of time with you and afterwards we work meticulously on retouching your images before you see them. Our collection pricing offers great savings and is flexible and creative – just like us. Plan on spending from $350 to $900 on our regular and senior sessions. We also offer special sessions and pricing throughout the year that many of our regular customers take advantage of.

4.  Senior portraits must come from the “school photographer”.

Not so, they (the school contract photographers) would like to make you think that, but although schools sometimes require you get your yearbook shot from the school photographer, you can go elsewhere for the rest of your images that are different. And we definitely provide “different”, a different look, a different experience – why not have it all!

5.  I’m not photogenic and hate having my pictures taken, so my pictures will look awful.

Wow what a bunch of baloney! We don’t believe in that stuff. We think everyone has their particular type of beauty and our photography goal is to find that beauty and show it in our images. We use creative lighting and posing in a fun, relaxed way to create special images for you – images that you can treasure for a lifetime.

6.  High School Seniors take showers at our studio! 

Uh, no, we do create the "Wet Hair" images but the seniors are fully clothed and we use towels and a little water sprayer to dampen their hair for these images.  And it's not just for girls, guys like our "Sweaty Jock" images too.