You deserve a portrait experience that is easy from start to finish. You deserve to have a photographer that has all your bases covered from helping you finalize your outfits, telling you exactly where to be, and all the details in between.
You deserve to just show up and have a good time!
A fast and fun portrait session is a total experience of enjoying your loved ones, having authentic candid moments, and creating art that captures or you and 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 and required for Senior Sessions to help plan out your session.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Basic Hand Editing is included with ALL portrait sessions to make your images wall worthy. This includes all of the fine tune editing of color, contrast and clarity as well as basic blemish and bruise removal and removing distractions from the background.
Advanced Editing features a new AI Editing software to take your portraits to the next level of magazine worthy to smooth skin, advanced blemish removal, eliminating flyaways, fixing tan lines and giving eyes a cinematic pop.
- 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 Sessions are location specific because each location requires a specific timeframe for scheduling. Below you will find the Investment Guide for Historic Charleston which covers all of the downtown areas and inland locations. Below that you will find the Investment Guide for all of the coastal Beach locations within my service area. Private locations such as Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Middleton Place, Charlestowne Landing, or any other property with gated hours will have additional entry fees on top of the base investment.
Portrait Packages for HISTORIC CHARLESTON
Portrait Packages for BEACH
Booking Process
- Review Packages
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This list of packages encompass all of my most popular offerings for the last 8+ seasons. If you need direction on selected the best package I am happy to listen to your needs and make a suggestion.
- Reserve Your Session
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Once 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. Your remaining balance will be due the day of your session.
- Review Prep Guide
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Once you've submitted your contract you'll be all set in my schedule be on the lookout in your email over the next few minutes for your custom Prep Guide. This guide 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. I'll even have recommendations for hair and makeup or wardrobe if needed!
- Final Confirmation
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As your session approaches you will be receiving my Final Reminders Prep Guide for things you'll need to know just before your session takes place. Tips I give my clients to look their best and for the best experience. I will also give you all the information you need on where to meet me, parking recommendations if needed, and the time or approximate start time of our session (always weather permitting). I urge my clients not to worry themselves about weather too much. Our weather here in Charleston literally changes by the hour so let ME take care of watching the fronts, wind patterns and hour by hour weather. 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.