After a session, the work moves through selection, editing, and a quiet handover. Digital galleries come first, then prints, zines, and framed pieces if you want them. Studio days in Woodstock and travel across Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal shape when physical work is ready, but nothing here is rushed.
Delivery at Potograpiya follows the same quiet logic as the sessions themselves. Nothing is rushed, nothing is padded out, and the photographs stay the focus from the first cull to the moment a print or zine is packed and sent.
You send the date, the location, and a rough idea of what you have in mind. We reply with a short note on timing, light, and what the session will realistically cover.
Portraits, a small wedding, or a documentary family walk. We work slowly, follow the light, and leave room for the unposed moments that usually end up mattering most.
Every frame is reviewed for light, gesture, and how it sits in the sequence. Film rolls are developed and scanned, then the set is edited down to a curated selection rather than a full dump.
Your set arrives as a private online gallery with thin captions on location, light, and gear. You can download the full resolution files and share the link with family.
If you want physical pieces, we pick paper and finish together. Zines are assembled in small runs, and framed work is limited to a handful of images per set.
Studio days in Woodstock are the usual pickup point. For clients in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, travel is arranged on request and physical pieces are packed and sent once the set is finalised.
Curious how the sessions themselves are paced? The process page walks through the shoot day, and the contact page is where you send your date.
Delivery is slow on purpose. Nothing gets rushed out the door the week after a session, because the frames worth keeping usually show themselves once the excitement has settled. Here is the order things actually happen in.
Day 1 to 3
Cards are copied twice onto separate drives the evening of the shoot, then a rough pass sorts the obvious misses from the frames that hold up. Film rolls from personal projects go to the lab in the same week, though the scans come back on their own schedule.
Week 1 to 2
This is the quiet part. Frames are cut down to a working selection, then graded for the warm bone-white tone the portfolio runs on. Bo-Kaap mornings and Winelands afternoons need different treatment, so each set gets its own pass rather than one preset across everything.
Week 2 to 3
You get a private link with the curated set, sized for both screen and download. Captions stay thin and factual, noting location, light, and gear, so you can see how the session ran rather than just how it looked.
Week 3 to 5
If you want physical pieces, we pick paper and size together before anything is sent to print. Zines are assembled in small runs, and framed work is limited to what the Woodstock studio can finish by hand. Nothing is ordered until you have seen the digital set and chosen from it.
On request
Studio days in Woodstock are the usual pickup point. For clients in Gauteng or KwaZulu-Natal, travel is arranged around the shoot itself, and physical pieces are packed flat and sent by courier once they are ready. Timing depends on the print run, not on a fixed promise.