Session Info

 

What to expect with an scenic session: 

These sessions are on-location around Albuquerque. My style of photography is more organic than the standard studio style sit and smile. You choose the location from my list of locations or suggest a new one.

We walk around that area to get different backgrounds, lighting and scenery. We don’t just stay in one spot and change poses like a studio. We walk around. Sometimes it can be up to a mile of walking, but that depends on the location and your interest. Don't get me wrong, I don't want people sweating.. Talk with me. Tell me what you want to have done. I take direction from you, I don't just tell you what is going to happen. I consider this a collaboration. If you have less abled people in your group, then we can walk to one area and use that space, we just lesson the quantity of backgrounds and focus on posing and camera angles. Some locations are on pavement, 5 feet from the car, like Sunset Memorial. Its very simple, very quick and beautiful.

I show you the back of the camera after each pose grouping to make sure you like what we are capturing.

Can you change your clothes? Yeah, change whatever you want. The backgrounds will change and your poses will change so clothing change doesn't always give the emotional fulfillment that you get in the studio. (Look through my photos for people wearing different clothes with the same face, do the clothing changes really matter? Only when its a senior and a cap and gown or a newborn with different themes or the style changes from casual to formal. Otherwise, you look like you no matter what you wear. But yeah, change your clothes as many times as you want. We are in public spaces, so bring a blanket... there aren't changing rooms.) 

When we’re done shooting, we sit somewhere and look at the photos on the iPad. We can even go to dinner or a coffee shop. This can take between 1/2 hour to 1 1/2 depending on the number of photos taken, the number of photos you choose to look through and how decisive you are about your photos. 

When we sit, I will link my iPad to my camera. It will display thumbnails. You choose which thumbnails to pull into the iPad and use to select your images.  60 images takes roughly 7-10 minutes to pull in. This is usually when I take all of your information and tell you next steps or we gab about life. Once the images are in the iPad, you select the images to purchase. If any kid face swaps are needed, we screenshot those changes. I take notes on what items usually bug you in your photos. (I like to edit out the small stuff that bugs everyone so that you and I can love your images. I don't do large edits for free like whole face acne removal or braces removal or background changes or head swaps for adults, just kids. Edits like that are chargeable time.)

This is the only time you see the photos until they are complete. If you would like to know more about my editing & finishing process, please look for that tab.

 After purchase, you are welcome to take pictures of the iPad screen to remember what you bought or share what you did. Each session is 2-2 1/2 hours to accommodate walking time, and viewing and ordering time. I mean, if you're satisfied with sharing unedited images and I am still paid my session fees, who am I to complain. =D I assume you're not printing those for your wall at home. But if that's you, then you do you...

When we sit to look at photos, you choose the photos that you want, you pay for 10 images up front but this is the time you can purchase more if wanted. Then, I confirm your email address for delivery and we go home.

 In two weeks, or less, I will deliver the digital images via email link. I send you an email with a link to finished digital photos to view/download in a google photo album. You don't have to have a Google account to view or download them. It is a one click process usually. All the phones, laptops and desktops are different, but it is an easy process. The link doesn't expire and I wont delete the album until I am out of room on my drive.

*If you're wondering why I do it this way, its because I have had the glamorous self-fulfilling websites in the past and my customers simply don't use the service. This method is simple and accessible by phone, desktop or app. Everyone can use it, tech savy or not.

These digital files are yours to use as you choose. I retain the copyright and all usage rights. Each photo is 2400x3600 @300dpi. That is large enough to print a 16x20. Anything larger than that has be ordered through me. I will then ship that larger item to you (unless we are friends, then you can come over for a drink and look at the gorgeous work of art while we chat. Woop!)

The only time we meet up is to take the photos. Everything else is done digitally and through shipping.

I don’t offer online portal viewing of unpurhcased images after the session is over, photo storage or product ordering. To buy more digitals, we would meet at a coffee shop and my time will be billable at $30 per hour including driving time. You would then look at the raw images on the iPad, just like at the session. 

If your printer asks if you have permission to print this, just email me. It has only happened 4 times in the 14 years that I have been a photographer.

Sessions are purchased upfront. I've been doing this for 14 years and there have only been 2 instances where people didn't like their photos. They didn't read any of this information and didn't understand my process so they didn't like the outcome. With that said, please read through my website. Look at my photographs. The photographs that I deliver to you will look like them, just with your family. You are the subject of the photos. Your clothes, personality, expressions and poses will determine how your photos look even if I shoot them exactly the same as the pictures on this website.  I do my best to recreate scenery for people that want cookie cutter photos but I can't the person that I'm photographing. I used to do tons of post production editing that I didn't get paid for. I no longer do that. What is in the camera is the shot. I only remove stray hairs, minor dots and swap faces on children because of the nature of children. Anything more than that is just not possible for me anymore.

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