Services
What we do
From first frame to final edit: the work we make, what it costs, and the way we make it.
Disciplines
Each project draws on one or more of these.
Rates
Sessions and packages
Time on the day, editing by hand and a gallery you keep sit inside every booking. These are the figures a booking starts from; every enquiry comes back as an estimate with the lines written out, and the figure you sign is the figure you pay.
Portrait sitting
From $450
90 minutes, one location
A sitting for one person or a family, photographed in daylight.
— 90 minutes of photography
— One location, indoors or out
— 25 edited frames
— Private online gallery
— Print release for personal use
— Preview within a week
Half-day coverage
From $1,600
Four hours, one photographer
Four hours for an event, an elopement or a day of brand photography.
— Four hours of coverage
— One photographer
— 150 edited frames
— Private online gallery
— Print release for personal use
— Delivery in two weeks
Full-day wedding
From $3,400
Ten hours, two photographers
Getting ready through the last dance, photographed by two of us. Engagement sittings book alongside a wedding at the portrait rate.
— Ten hours of coverage
— Second photographer through the day
— 600 edited frames
— Gallery you can share with family
— Print release for personal use
— Delivery in three weeks
— Travel within 60 miles
Editorial and commercial
By quotation
Day rate, priced from the brief
Campaign, editorial and product work. Every brief carries its own crew, schedule and usage, so we read it and come back with a written estimate inside two working days.
— Day and half-day rates
— Crew, studio and stylist arranged on request
— Shot list agreed before the day
— Licence written to the usage you need
— Retouching quoted with the estimate
— Delivery date set against your deadline
Second photographer
A second pair of eyes on the far side of the room.
$650 per day
Extra hours
Added to any package in advance or on the day itself.
$300 per hour
Engagement sitting
An hour before the wedding, in a place that means something to you.
$450
Hand-bound album
Forty pages on cotton stock, sequenced with you before it goes to print.
From $780
Prints and framing
Archival prints pulled from your gallery, framed to order.
From $60
Rush delivery
The full edited gallery inside five days.
$400
Raw files
Released with a licence on commercial and editorial projects.
By quotation
Travel beyond 60 miles
Mileage, flights and a room when the day starts before the trains do.
At cost
In every booking
What the price always covers
A planning call
We talk through the day, the light and the timings before anyone picks up a camera.
Editing by hand
Every frame you receive is graded by hand, so skin tones and the light in the room stay the way they looked.
A private gallery
Your images land in a gallery you can download from, print from and share.
Files you can use
High-resolution files and a written licence covering where the images can run.
Reviews
What clients say about working with us
“The preview landed inside the week and the full set right after it. Nothing had to be sent back.”
Marisol Reyes
Autumn wedding, Ojai
“Calm on the day, sharp in the edit. The rooms look the way they feel at four in the afternoon.”
Theo Brandt
Interiors shoot
“Files came back graded to sit inside the pages we already print, so the layout stayed where it was.”
Hannah Ovesen
Lookbook
“We booked a sitting on short notice and still had the gallery before the holidays.”
Ade Fashola
Family sitting
“The licence was written plainly and the delivery date held, which is what we were paying for.”
Cecile Marchand
Campaign
“We barely noticed a camera all day, then watched the whole thing happen again in the pictures.”
Jonah Kessler
Elopement, Big Sur
How we work
We treat every commission as a body of work. Considered, unhurried, made to last.
Commissions run from a single sitting to multi-day editorial. Whatever the scale, the person who takes your first call is on set for the shoot.
12+
Years behind the lens
480
Shoots delivered
40+
Editorial features
100%
Shot on location
Questions, answered
What does a typical shoot with you look like?
We start with a short call to understand the story you want to tell, then plan the light, location and timing around it. On the day we keep things calm and unhurried so the images feel natural.
What holds a date?
A deposit of 30% holds the date and comes off the final invoice. The balance falls due two weeks before the shoot. Dates go on a first-deposit basis, so an enquiry on its own does not hold one.
Can we move the date?
Yes, once, to any open date inside a year of the original booking. Your deposit moves with it. If the new date is already taken we put you in touch with photographers we work with and refund the deposit in full.
How does travel work?
Travel inside 60 miles of the studio is in the price. Past that we bill mileage at cost, plus flights and a room when the day starts before the first train. Every travel line appears on the estimate before you sign.
When do the photographs arrive?
A short preview lands within a week. Portrait galleries follow in two weeks and weddings in three. Editorial and commercial delivery is set against your deadline when we quote. Rush delivery is an add-on.
Who owns the images, and where can we use them?
We hold the copyright and you hold a licence. Portrait and wedding clients can print, hang and post their images anywhere personal. Commercial licences are written to the media, territory and term you need, and are priced with the estimate.
What if the shoot needs something that is not on this page?
Tell us what it is. Most bookings sit inside these packages, and anything past them gets a written quote before we go ahead.
Tell us about the shoot and we will send a figure
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