After your shoot, you will receive a Summary sheet (Evernote link) and Contact sheet (pdf).

These are sent by 11pm, day of shoot.

(A) Summary sheet => small website with facts about the shoot, link to proofs, and some of my favorites.

(B) Contact sheet (pdf) => this contains 90-95% of images taken, processed and scrubbed as proofs.

Send me a list of favorites as SOOCs (light edits):

      ex. #4, 9, 31, 45*, 71

I will send these with some light touch-ups, in both 2k and 4k resolution (2000px and 4000px on the wide side).

The asterisk indicates the favorite image, which will be retouched (comes with Economy and Standard packages).

Retouching takes 5-7 days.

Clients can request specific edits or adjustments after receiving their first revisions (edit-01, edit-02, …)

Standard timeline:

1. Phone consultation (optional).

2. Deposit (50%) to set an appointment (required).

3. Rescheduling (no fee with >72h advance notice).

4. Date-of-shoot (2nd payment due upon completion).

5. Summary Sheet and Contact Sheet (pdf), sent by 11pm.

6. Your choice of SOOCs (light edits) and finals (images for retouching).

7. SOOCs uploaded.

8. Edits sent within 5-7 days.

9. Additional edits ($75/final) and SOOCs ($15/image) (optional).

Seeing your images during and after the shoot is an important part of your portrait experience.

You will view the images during the shoot.

After the shoot, you have access to the Contact Sheet (pdf), which contains all the culled images from the shoot.

My goal is to offer each person the opportunity to be photographed in a relaxed manner.

Although I do the best with my experience, I cannot guarantee every person will love their pictures.

If images were taken properly, but the client was not fully prepared (e.g. not enough sleep, forgot clothes), a re-shoot is not included. A re-shoot is possible based on technical errors on the photographer’s part.

My standard Photoshop process for retouching an image includes:

• Dimension adjustment (increasing width of images i.e. widening the sides/top, cropping image to match aspect ratio)

• Blemish removal (acne, insect bites)

• Skin texture (clothing wrinkles, skin roughness, crow’s feet, etc.)

• Contouring (selective lighting shallows and highlights on skin)

• Coloration (adjusted skin tones, lip color, shadow colors)

• Sharpening

• Clothing (shirt color, collar wrinkles, etc.)

• Backdrop (gradients, colors adjustments, etc.)

• Color balance and grading (i.e. total color shifts)

Note I will usually disfavor changes that significantly alter a person’s appearances. I also take requests prior to retouching.

I use Adobe Bridge (ACR) for batch processing, and Adobe Photoshop 2021 for more precise or surgical changes.