FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Greetings. First off I want to make it clear that I want High Quality work to be accessible to everyone. If you have a need and can't afford my price, please send me an honest and open request for adjustments and I will likely be able to make something work for you. Standard pricing for an amount of time spent shooting is roughly $300/ hour which assumes that editing and deliverables will be included. For example: if I come shoot your event for one hour collecting around 600 photos, I will edit those down to the top 10% for you to review. Say you pick 30 of those 60 photographs and I get to the retouching process. As long as everything is starting at a high quality, those edits can happen in just a few days, depending on my work load. All in all that 1 hour of shooting just potentially became a total of 20 hours of work that I will put in to ensure that you are getting the highest quality in your deliverables, and if we do the math that is only $15/ hour, which is very low for skilled labor. Not to mention I'm covering my own insurance, overhead, equipment, billing and risk of not being employed. Different types of work tend to have adjusted price points to cover expected work for that category and can be negotiated, but I set my prices to reflect the quality of work that I would like to deliver.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
First we need to establish expectations for the deliverable products that you have a need for. It is imperative that we understand what your goals are and often times we can discover ways to refine your goals just by writing them out and discussing them. My first real goal as a provider of this service is to understand you and your story, and in that effort I can hopefully reflect that through my lens and give you something that lasts and has great value to you or your organization.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
For 10 years I have been working in Commercial film and Photography. I started as an assistant, and worked my way through all departments. I particularly have a deep passion for lighting, camera work and producing. The scale of the work that I have been exposed to and the types of artists and crafts persons that I have had the honor to work for and alongside has given me a depth of immersion in the craft that no education system could possibly provide. As a photographer I have a uniquely mixed journey as a technician and an artist. My goal is to be able to convey your story through a single frame.