Research - Venture

Venture are a high street photography business, that work entirely in the studio. I am not overly keen on some of their work & I find it very over saturated, very high contrast & usually a bit too cheesy. Some of it, I do like & it can be quite creative, although I imagine it is done time & time again. Even though it may all not be exactly to my taste, their prices are very high & people pay it, so they must be doing something right. I have heard though that their selling techniques can be very intense & they manage to keep the prices secret until they have showed you a slideshow of the images in a softly lit room with emotive music playing which is a bit sneaky & low in my opinion. They also go so far as to offer loans if you can't afford the packages.

Some of their work:

their prices are so much of a secret that it took me weeks to manage to find their pricelist. I ended up finding it on a forum & the only one I could find was their 2007 pricelist: