Prices

grace_drumSession Fee: $200

This covers my time and talent and includes a pre-shoot phone consultation, 1-2 hours of photography time at your house or other nearby location, digital processing of 20-30 images and an online image gallery for review. The session fee does not include prints. New Mexico GRT is added at the current rate for all New Mexico shoots.

Print Prices:

All the prints your order are printed by professionals-only labs which use printers matched to the color profiles I use when editing the images, to ensure the highest quality. The images are printed on professional papers and go through rigourous quality control procedures.

  • 5 x 7s: $15
  • 8 wallet-sized prints (same image): $20
  • 8 x 10s or 11 x 14: $60
  • 16 x 20s or 16 x 24s: $125
  • 20 x 24s: $160

Digital files:

  • Low-resolution images (good for use online, but not for printing): $15/photo
  • Digital negatives (full hi-resolution files with copyright release): $60/photo

Unlike some photographers, I’m happy to provide you with the digital files (in .jpg format) of the images you require. But by doing so, especially with the high-resolution files, I’m giving up the chance of any further income from the images I’ve spent a long time working on, and used my talent and experience to create. It’s for that reason that I charge accordingly.

A note on copyright

This can be a touchy subject, especially as it’s your kids I’m taking photographs of. But a few things need to pointed out:

Although you’re hiring me for the session, legally the copyright over all the images rests with me. When you buy a print from me, you’re buying that print, not the right to have it scanned to run off other copies, or upload to your website, Facebook page or the like (for that you can buy the low-resolution version).

When you buy the ‘digital negative’ version, you’re getting the digital file and the right to personal use of the image – in other words you can print it somewhere else, or upload it to your website, but you can’t sell it as a stock image or enter it into a beautiful baby photo contest under your name (not that you would of course).

This sounds restrictive, but it’s necessary to ensure that my work as a photographer earns me enough money to keep doing it. And the law backs me up. In return, I won’t sell the images I take for you as stock images or for other commercial purposes – so you won’t see your little Johnny advertising orange juice (unless you’d like that, in which case we can have a talk).

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