The Value Your Photographer Gives You

Have you ever wondered how your photographer set the pricing for your portrait session?

Why your photography costs what it does?

Your session fee helps to cover the following:

The annual business taxes paid to run a business.

The hundreds of dollars paid annually to have a functional website.

The thousands of dollars of equipment used at your session.

The time and forethought put into prepping for your shoot, starting with the email or phone communications.

Location scouting and driving to your session; both of those things cost time and money for gas.

The compensation for the assistant.

The hours spent culling your images, applying general edits, uploading your images to a gallery so you have a convenient way to view them and make your selections; using a service that charges a monthly fee.

The editing tools: Lightroom and Photoshop also charge a monthly fee.

This alone, without any images included, is worth the session fee— but wait! Images are included! And they are meticulously edited, (which can take hours). Even if general adjustments were the only changes made, which they are not, wouldn’t a digital piece of art, that you can print and share unlimited times with friends and family and with the world online, that can last for generations— be worth $25 an image? That’s how much I charge per edited image à la carte beyond the images included in your session.

In my base portrait package you receive 12 edits which is a $300 value! My base package is $450. That means you’re only paying my assistant and I $150 for the multiple hours we spent prepping and making your session happen. WOW!! What a steal of a deal!!! And we give you all this because we love to create and add value to your lives! With that, lets make magic together!!