Top Class Portraits™ | Photography Club Athens Tennessee
Full service portrait & wedding photography studio, photography club & digital photo lab based in Athens, Tennessee
Receive your very first portrait session with us at half-price. Just $25 for one hour studio portrait session.
Full service portrait & wedding photography studio, photography club & digital photo lab based in Athens, Tennessee
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Photo club membership is FREE. There is no monthly or annual membership fee. No monthly or annual obligation to pay for any photography products or services. But to ensure our photography club is properly supported we do have these requirements:
To join, you must show up for a scheduled club meeting, pay regular price for one portrait session and fill out form providing your preferred payment information to be kept on file. You will be given a private four-digit number to enter into the order portion of the Contact Form so your order may be processed when any payment is due. However, one green screen processing is included with each hour of a photo session our club members schedule.
Photo club meetings are held once and sometimes twice per month. (Photo club meetings are aka informal photography classes and opportunity to meet with and learn from other aspiring photographers).
One-on-one photography lessons at one hour per lesson are provided at $25 an hour. This is held in the studio and when required in the Portrait Park area. This is NOT a portrait session. Only instructional one-on-one photography lesson using the studio, props, backgrounds, mannequin portrait training head and more. You may take written notes and one Lesson Fact Sheet will be provided. These one-on-one photography lessons are provided by John. Take none, take one or take all the lessons available. It is up to the photo club member based on their own desires and needs.
The studio is available to the general public who want professional portraits by our Top Class Portraits™ photographers. Professional photographers working under your own business licenses may use the studio and the Portrait Park outdoor area located behind the studio as members of our photography club and at a discounted rate. Portrait packages and pricing you set for yourself. We will provide you a FREE Photographer's Page here on the Top Class Portraits™ website. You may also display your own business cards and promotional brochures in the studio office. Post on Top Class Portraits™ FB page portrait sessions scheduled you will do using the Top Class Portraits™ studio and/or Portrait Park. You are permitted only to announce sessions you will shoot in the studio and Portrait Park.
You also have option to become a Moderator on the Top Class Portraits™ Photo Club Facebook page. This will give photography club members and people seeking a photographer the opportunity to get to know you and perhaps select you when they schedule a portrait appointment. If you are interested in wedding photography, as a photography club member you may be given opportunity to accompany, assist and even become a 2nd shooter. Permission from each wedding client must be acquired first. Who the bride selects for this privilege may largely depend on your Photographer's Page. Make it good.
Portrait Park available May 1 through November 1
For use by Top Class Portraits™ Photographers & Facebook Photo Club Members only by appointment.
Mannequin Portrait Training Head
We can process for you. One green screen processing is included for each hour of portrait session. Hundreds of digital backgrounds to choose from for replacing the green screen. Any additional images you would like to have green screen processing are priced at $1.50 each. These may be uploaded anytime after the session using the Contact Form. We will provide email link to your processed green screen files for full-resolution download. Some digital background examples below.
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Pro Photographer assists all photo club members who bring their own cameras to photograph portrait sessions in studio and our Portrait Park.
42" computer monitor Top Class Portraits™ photographers and photography club members use to view photos at conclusion of portrait sessions.
We use a copy stand with daylight balanced illuminated base. This make it faster and easier to digitally convert various size negative and positive transparency films.
Also old photographs may be copied. Photographs which have been damaged, aged, discolored, etc., can be digitally copied and retouched with corrected copies printed in our on-premises lab up to 16" x 20" size.
This is available exclusively for use by our Photography Club members.