I offer five kinds of sessions...
1) Full session- 1 hour of time, 40 proofs to choose from presented in a secure online gallery, $250 plus tax- $250 minimum purchase required on top of the session fee. Ideal for families with more than one child.
2) Medium session- 45 minutes of time, 20 proofs to choose from $175 plus tax, $175 minimum purchase required on top of the session fee. Ideal for families with a single child.
3) Mini session- 20 to 30 minutes of time, 10 proofs to choose from $125 plus tax, $125 minimum purchase required on top of the session fee. These must be done within 10 miles of my home. I live right next door to Staunton State Park and Meyers Ranch is also close by as good location choices.
4) Newborn session-up to 4 hours of time, 40 proofs to choose from, $300 plus tax- $200 minimum purchase required. Medium newborn session is up to 2 hours of time, 20 proofs to choose from for $250 plus tax, $150 minimum purchase required. These prices are for shooting at my home studio. If you want the studio to come to you an additional $75 set up/travel fee applies (plus mileage if over 15 miles from me). Lifestyle session travel fee is $30.
5) Fusion session- see the fusion session tab for full details on these- $400 for session with included movie- $200 minimum purchase required on top of the session fee- outdoors for any age except newborn
Custom pricing for extended family sessions and birthday parties on request (birthday parties will start at $350 plus tax for 2 hours of time and a digital download of lightly retouched images).
Mileage fees will apply for shoot locations further than 15 miles from my home, contact me for pricing.
{session pricing includes time and talent of the photographer only, edited proofs will be presented online for you to choose your images from, no prints or digital files are included with the session fee with the exception of the packages below}
Print Pricing...
Standard print pricing is $15 for 4x6, $20 for 5x7, $30 for 8x10 (plus tax), pricing goes up from there for larger sizes or mounting options. I offer numerous mounting options including foam board, bevel mounts, 3/4 mounts, gallery wraps, thin wraps, magnets, custom collages, proof books and hard cover books.
I also offer stand alone digital collections delivered via digital download or flash drive starting at $250 for 10 images and going up to $700 for a 40 image gallery collection. I do offer discounted add on digital collections to print purchases over $200.
While I do offer digital packages, I strongly encourage you to still purchase at least a few prints from me. You will receive the best quality and color rendition coming from my pro lab that my monitor is calibrated to. You are not paying good money for your session and digital files to go and print at Wal Mart and have terrible looking skin tones and bad contrast hanging on your walls. There will be HUGE differences in how your prints turn out pending where you have them printed, so you need to be aware of that. Also, if you buy a digital collection make sure you actually print things out right away, make a book or order prints so you can easily look at the beautiful portraits we have created.
Contact me for a full pricing sheet.
I know price is often one of the biggest factors when choosing your photographer. However, I strongly encourage you to look at their work first, find one that fits the look/feel that you want and then save/budget to make it happen. Of course, I hope that you choose me, but I want you to shop around. There are tons of styles out there, so find the one that speaks to you. Price should be secondary. You are always going to be able to find people to do it cheaper, but these are your memories and preserving them in the way you want to remember them is priceless. As in all businesses, cheaper is NOT always better. In my town alone there are probably 100 "photographers" out there and there are HUGE differences in the quality of work being generated. Sadly there are many, many people calling themselves professionals that quite honestly have no idea what they are doing and their work shows it. There will be a difference in quality in the person who will do everything for $50 and the true professional who has years of experience under their belt, knows how to use light, interact with children, pose babies safely, has invested in the best equipment and is constantly improving their craft. I can't overemphasize this enough especially when it comes to newborn photography. By the time you get proofs back your baby is now 2-3 weeks old and if you didn't like how they turned out, you have missed your chance to capture that extremely fleeting time. Other sessions can be reshot in the event of a poor outcome, those can not. Please don't make this mistake! I have over 12 years of experience and counting.
