You'll find lots of great styling suggestions at our welcome page that apply to both photos and videos, but there are a few important things our clients should remember: clean faces for kiddos (sometimes crusty noses are the hardest to photoshop!) and wrinkle-free clothing is a big priority! If you can remember, keeping cell phone/keys out of pockets is another great tip. For our video clients, please refrain if possible from wearing fine stripes or very small patterns on clothing. It looks a little funky on film--the result is called "moire" and it causes some weird motion lines at times. Aim to turn off artificial light for our film or photos, if we are inside. Our cameras are wonderful with natural light so the extra light isn't needed! The natural light will make our film/video look awesome. =) We always travel with supplemental light if needed and everything we need to make magic! =)

All delivered photos are edited for style, color correction, and corrected for light blemishes, etc. (Our work is always consistent with what you see shared our social channels and website portfolio.) This service is complimentary and already included in your portrait pricing! Extensive skin edits (removal of heavy acne, requests to airbrush fine lines or veins, wrinkle removal, etc.) may be requested at a rate of $5 per photo due to the time-consuming nature of photo retouching. These selections can be made in your final delivery gallery if you should choose to do so! If you have any concerns to start, it's always a great plan to let us know. =)

Once your photos are delivered, it's very important to download them and save them to a few locations within 3 weeks. Our promise to clients is that their gallery will remain on our server for that amount of time, but periodically we must clean out our server to make room for new photos. We understand that sometimes time can slip away or you may forget to do this! For that reason, we started offering a service to clients for re-upload their gallery to our servers for the cost of $20 to help us mitigate the additional hosting cost/time  Once re-uploaded, the gallery is extended for another 3 weeks before being removed from the system. You can also choose to have your images mailed to you on a USB for a small fee. No matter what, we want you to have your photos forever! IMPORTANT: If you have albums or prints you are selecting from your gallery, your gallery will be necessary for the working process, as we use our software to select images for books, prints, etc. We will not construct books and print orders from screenshots or files sent back to us, as it clouds the working process and often denigrates image quality. Selection must be made from our original delivery software. Please note that selections for your print products must be selected within six months, or print products, albums, etc. from your package will be forfeited. This is due to continuously changing prices of product and additionally, the cost of hosting images in our system outside of the agreed upon window of 3 weeks. Selections made outside of this window will be billed at their new current market price.

Have any special details to mention, or maybe some concerns? Let me know so I can make you or your family as comfortable as possible! I specialize in working with children and would love to hear about things that make your family unique, or any accommodations I can make for accessibility/ease. I have many years of experience in working with all types of personalities and as a retired teacher I am also very skilled in working with shy kids as well as exceptionalities and disabilities.