Absolutely nothing, in fact WE PAY YOU! But a great fundraising opportunity is just one of the many benefits in choosing Michael Thompson photography as your photography partner.

Why not give us a call today, you won't be disappointed!

Not at all, we don’t set a minimum club size or number of teams to use our services. We will work with you to ensure that your players and officials are able to access the same great service that is provided to larger clubs.

Well, that will depend on the size of your club.

Wherever possible, we like to photograph all teams either on the same day, although for larger clubs, we may need to schedule 2 or even 3 separate sessions.

Small Clubs (Up to 200 members) = 1 session

Medium Clubs (201 – 500 members) = 1 – 2 Sessions

Large Clubs (more than 500 members) = 2 to 3 Sessions

If one or more teams can’t make the scheduled photo day, we may be able to simply re-schedule that team for another date with other teams from your club if more than one session is planned.

If that option is not available, the team may have to attend another club’s team photo shoot in their area, or we can come to a training night during the week.

Whatever the problem, we are here to help so talk to us and we can help find an option that works!.

We prefer at least 3 weeks (21 days) notice before the team are to be photographed. This gives us time to arrange schedules & deliver envelopes to you and gives your players, parents and officials enough notice to be ready on the day.

It is important though not to leave things too late as our season books out very quickly, especially if you prefer a Saturday or Sunday session before games.

Many clubs are now choosing to have photos on a training night, or even a special "photo night" during the week.

Whatever your needs, we will work with you to find a way to get the photos done!

We do our best to take on the majority of the admin work associated with your team photos, but do ask that the club nominate a primary contact person as well as a backup.

The role of the contact person is to:

• Notifying club members & officials of the date, location and time of the team photos

• Distribute order forms and team envelopes to team managers, who then distribute the individual envelopes to the players to take home & give to parents/guardians

• Liaise with our team regarding details of the booking (supply of club logo, team lists, approve photo layouts etc)

• Meet, or arrange for someone to meet, the photographer 1 hour prior to the shoot for set up

• Be present (or arrange for someone to be present) for the duration of the shoot.

• Tell everyone you know (especially other clubs) about us and why they should also use MTPhoto!

If a Player or VIP is absent on the day they will be listed as absent on the photo.

If requested by the club or team manager, an individual profile photo can be arranged to be inserted into the team photo.

Photos can be taken within 7 days of the scheduled team photo (before or after), by coming along to another photo shoot, to our studio (located in Banks) or another location as mutually agreed to.

Please note: Inserts are a small box inserted into (generally) the top right hand corner of the team photo. Players are not "seemlessly" photoshopped into the team as though they were present on the day.

It's always great to have a "Plan B".

Clubs are happy to know we are almost 100% weather proof, with our own large inflatable marquees to keep out the rain, sun and wind. As long as the grounds remain open (not closed by ACT government) we are able to operate in all but the very worst weather. This is a terrific advantage for clubs to not have to try and reschedule due to inclement weather.

In the event the weather looks particularly nasty, or the grounds have been closed by the ACT government, we will be in contact the night before to initiate the wet weather “Plan B” which will normally involve rescheduling the photo day if a suitable indoor venue is not available.

For a professional looking team photo, all players need to be in uniform. This includes shirts, shorts, socks and boots.

If a player arrives not in their full uniform, we encourage them to find a uniform by borrowing from another player.

If a uniform cannot be found, the photographer will attempt to place the player in a position in the photo that does not stand out.

We think that your committee members have enough to do and prefer to manage the photo schedule on your behalf (in consultation with your club contact person).

When scheduling a team photo event we allow the following time allocations:

Small teams* (5 – 10 players) = 5-10 minutes apart
Larger teams (10 players or more) = 10 to 15 minutes apart

* For larger clubs, we utilise two individual photo stations and can accomodate a schedule of up to three smaller teams every 10 minutes!

Our systems are tried and tested over nearly 10 years so you can rest assured that we wil:

Start on Time - Stay on Time - Finish on Time.

We take individual portraits of all players whether or not they have ordered individual products. There are three main reasons for this:

1. We are so confident that parents will be so impressed with the quality of our product that they will want one, even if it is months down the track

2. We know how busy life can get and orders sometimes are not placed before photo day. We like to be able to provide parents with quaility photo memories of their childs sporting career

3. We offer a range of wonderful Coaches gifts, many of which feature portraits of all team players. In the event that your team may purchase one of these gifts we like to ensure all players are represented.

There are two options for players to purchase photos.

1. Purchase on the day

   Each player can order individually with the envelopes that we provide for you. Just like school photos, players bring their order forms, complete with payment and hand to our information desk on the date of the shoot.

2. Pre-order on the internet

   Parents and players can log onto our website site and pre-order any of the available packages.

We pride ourselves on our professionalism in delivering a fun filled day that runs to time. You can help us to achieve this through a few key areas.

Keep players and Parents informed!

To finish on time we need to start on time. You can help us with this by ensuring players and parents are reminded of their photo time and are encouraged to arrive at least 5 or 10 minutes before.

Promote the event!

Good promotion is essential to keeping your players/ parents and committee informed. There are a number of easily assessable tools that help with promotion:

• Encorage Managers/ Coaches to keep to the schedule

  A detailed schedule ensures all team managers are able to inform their players of the time they are to arrive for their team photos. Get them to arrive at least 5 or 10 minutes prior to their scheduled session.

• Utilise Facebook

  Facebook is an awesome tool to help promote the team photos. A few timely status updates, a post on the wall, or even create an event and invite club members to join are all worthwhile and help to increase awareness. Our “Facebook Like” competition is also a fun way to include the members in the process.

• Email

  Group emails to parents/ players a week or so before the scheduled sessions helps to remind them of their session time and the need to get to the venue early.

Definitely!

We are very proud of our product and will be happy to provide contact details for referees on our past work. If you would like to give us a call we can put you in contact with suitable referee's.

Alernatively, our partner clubs are listed on our website. Feel free to look them up and ask for yourself ... you'll be glad you did!