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We are an independent Jacksonville Florida photography studio . We have fair, honest pricing and we take the time to get it right.

We are located at 5265 San Juan Ave.

 Jacksonville, Florida.

Between Lane Ave S. & Cassat Ave. At the corner of San Juan Ave & Retaw St.

We have session in studio and on location, so we are by appointment only.

For more help with directions, please give us a call

904-887-2125.  greg@chsphotography.com

State of the art technology allows us to provide the best quality photos possible. Digital photography with film based photo processing using Premium Fuji Crystal Archive paper gives us the best of both worlds.

Our commitment to you-

• Not to rush, taking the time to talk to you and child, taking the time to get it right.
• Not to make you buy pictures you don't like, just get the ones you want.
• Not to waste your time. Most photos are ready in 7 days to 10 days.

Portraits done the right way.

We provide high quality photography services to our neighbors at reasonable prices. We believe in fair and honest pricing. We have great packages and offer per page pricing.

We will ask you if you have in mind for your, your child, or your families’ portrait. Then, based on that information, we will use three or four different poses, which may have different props and backgrounds. For each pose several shots are taken. After finishing the shoot, we will sit down and view the session on a monitor. You will be able to choose which shot(s) you like and what size package(s) you want. If you didn't like any of the pictures we will shoot more. The portraits are ready in two business days*.

Why not get your photos done at X-Mart?

More and more the myriad of X-Mart type stores have decided to become mini-malls. They now are becoming a department / grocery / optometry / barber / photo studio store. While some of these services are done by professionals who sublease, other services, like the photo studio, are not. The `photographer’ taking your child’s picture may be an associate who was stocking shelves in the sporting goods department the week before. Most of these X-Marts have come-on deals with large package for under $6.00. At that price they are not even covering their own costs. So you ask yourself why. Are they doing it out of the goodness of their corporate hearts? Giving back to their customers?

Not likely, according to which X-Mart your looking at there is several ways they get deeper in to your pocket. All of them do two or more of the following-

• An additional small package charge.
• Extra charge for some of the backgrounds
• Extra charge for some of the props
• A sitting fee of $14.99(or more) per person
• You have to buy a membership in their picture club
• Price for only the first snap of the camera, of course this somehow is rarely a good picture but they took several others that are available for a price that is 5, 10, or even 15 times the come-on package pricing.

You have to wait 2-4 weeks to see the photos, by then you are willing to buy whatever they have rather then starting all over. They will bully you by telling you that in order to get the photo that is the best, you will have to buy an over sized package. They will tell that you have buy them now or they will be destroyed. In the end you have a two or three packages of picture your not thrilled with and a drawer full of wallet size, billfold size, and 5X7, you can’t bring yourself throw out.

On average you walk out of X-Mart, having spent $120.00 plus.

How we do portraits

* On sizes lager then 8X10 longer turnaround can be expected.

greg@chsphotography.com

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