FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I am available for engagement sessions, weddings, or both. Engagement Session: $200* The engagement session rate includes two hours of photography services. I recommend this optional session because it is an excellent opportunity for us to get to know one another, but it also allows you to experience the photography process and begin to feel comfortable in front of the camera. This session will take place on a separate day. Wedding Day: $800* The wedding day rate includes five hours of photography services from me. Each additional hour past the initial five hours is $100. My assistant will also be present to hold lights, change camera lenses, and help organize group shots. If you feel that your wedding day coverage requires a second photographer - I have been teaming up with extraordinary talented associate photographers and can help you finding one as well! Photography Package The basic package includes the following: · A DVD disk containing 600-800 digital photo files, which will be sent to you within three weeks after the wedding. · Post-processing of all photos. I use computer programs to transform photos from what was captured in a camera to something closer to what our eyes saw. Additionally, certain artistic effects may be used to enhance a photo’s natural beauty. · Cosmetic retouching of bride and groom's portraits, if necessary. Examples may include skin imperfections or figure disproportions. · Official copyright release to your photos, which allows you to use them however you wish. *If I need to travel further than 50 miles, I will add travel expenses (gas and hotel, if the latter is even needed), so please contact me to get a more precise price of your project.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I like for our first contact to be a phone consultation, so we can talk about your personal preferences and expectations. Specifically, I’m interested in hearing how you envision your wedding day and what you are looking for in your wedding photography. If we decide to work together, I will then email you a pre-wedding questionnaire that will contain questions about your event: times and locations, names and phone numbers, number of guests, group arrangements for the formal photos, names of family members, list of vendors, and any other pertinent details, such as your wedding planner’s contact information. This answers to the questionnaire will help my assistant and me better manage your wedding day photography needs. During the actual ceremony, I try to be as unobtrusive as possible. I move around very little or not at all, and I try to never stand in front of your guests. For indoor weddings, I will use flash only if there is no other resolution to poor lighting conditions, and only if it is allowed by the venue. The only time I will directly guide you and your guests is when the official ceremony is over, and everyone gathers for the group pictures, but I do this to capture the entire wedding party at their very best. Similarly, when we shoot the "First Look" or "Engagement Portraits," I will be giving you directions in accordance with the lighting situation and compositional opportunities, but once again, I do this to reach the best effect possible. My job is to make you feel comfortable, to provide you with the very best depiction of your day, and to make you forget that I am even there. I also believe in treating my clients with respect, so I will never impose my vision on you; instead, I like to figure out who my clients are and then let them be themselves. This day is yours, after all, not mine.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I am a graduate of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, New York, where I completed a one-year Photojournalism Program. Before starting my wedding photography business in 2017, I spent ten years working as a photographer for GEO, a European travel magazine.