Working with your family is more than just work for me, and more than just smiling at the camera for you. It's a total experience of enjoying your loved ones, having authentic candid moments, and creating art that captures your family connections. These images not only last a lifetime for you, they are heirlooms for your children and visual memories for them to keep for their entire lives. Images that will always spark memories and bring a smile to their face, and that is the greatest gift of all.
Included in Your Session
- Prep Guide
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You'll receive custom a Prep Guide catered to the type of session you've booked. Everything from what to wear, where to park or meet, what time, our weather watch schedule, and what to expect from start to finish. My goal is to put you at ease and take care of as many of the fine details as I can.
- Rain Date
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The weather here in Charleston can be very unpredictable and changing by the hour. All clients are booked for an initial choice, and backup choice in my schedule so that we have a set plan in place in the event of a rain out. Just one more thing to put your mind at ease.
- Wardrobe
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Wardrobe advice and assistance is available for all clients.
For moms and moms-to-be I have an extensive Client Closet available to use for your session with a variety of sizes and styles.
- Post Processing
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The Compendium and Epilogue Packages receive first priority of editing receiving your full edited gallery within 10 days of your session. The Full Story Session will receive their edited gallery within 14 days of your session. Highlights Package will receive a lightly edited Proofing Gallery of their best 30 images within three weeks of their session. From this proofing gallery you will select your favorite images to be included in your final gallery, with the option to add additional images if you choose.
- Professional Prints and Products
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As my Client you will have access to one of the leading professional print labs located in the United States. These professional labs go above and beyond the consumer labs you may be used to taking in account color, clarity, and customer service. While I do allow my Clients to print from anywhere they'd like, you'll have direct access to order these professional prints and products from your online gallery.
- Print Release
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All Clients and those who participate in the session will be given a digital Print Release that may be used at any consumer or professional print lab of their choosing. While prints and products are recommended to be ordered from the lab linked to your online gallery, I know that certain requests call for different vendors.
Portrait Packages
Two Location Sessions
Frequently Asked Questions
Steps to Booking
- Review Packages
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Ask yourself what would you like to walkaway with from your session? Would you love to update your walls, maybe a gift for the grandparents? These three packages encompass my most popular offerings and products out of everything I have offered my clients over the last 7 years.
- Reserve Your Session
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Before you book gather the essential information: Who is participating, ages of any children under 18, the emails of anyone who would like to receive the gallery invitation and prep guides as well as the address of where you're staying (if applicable and if you have it). If we've chatted about dates, times, location and you're ready to reserve your session please fill out your booking form below. This will take you directly to a contract form to fill out and a credit card form to reserve your session with just $300. The remaining balance is due the day of your session, which you can pay online or in person. Once your form is submitted you will receive my exclusive Extended Family Prep Guide to give everyone tips on what to wear and how to prepare the family.
- Review Prep Guide
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Once you're all set in my schedule be on the lookout in your email over the next few hours for your custom Prep Guide. This is filled with lots of information about what to expect, what to wear, and how to best prepare for your session based on the location and time of day. You'll also receive a Final Prep and Reminders Guide about a week out from your session with essential items to do before your session time.
- Confirmation and Weather Watch
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As your session approaches I will be sending out critical information on where we will be meeting, the timeframe, and any thoughts I have on weather. I urge my clients not to worry themselves about weather too far out. Our weather here in Charleston changes by the hour so let ME take on any of that stress as I watch the fronts, wind patterns and hour by hour weather. Our goal is to get your session in on the day you've booked it for which sometimes requires flexibility for the family on getting ready earlier or later. But remember, we always have a backup plan in place in case of a complete rain out, but that actually rarely happens. It's more likely that we adjust our session time earlier or later based on passing storms instead of rescheduling all together.
- Enjoy The Experience
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Once our time has arrived I want you to really enjoy the whole experience. Leave your cell phones and smart watches away, let your kids laugh and be silly, commit to really experiencing this moment with your family and children because I promise you this is an experience that you both will remember. Be present, be authentic, and enjoy your experience taking in the beauty around you and let me take care of capturing it all.