Transparent pricing

Most photography is quoted after a conversation, which means the number depends on what the photographer thinks you will pay. Publishing a starting price for every session removes that: a published price has to be defensible to everyone reading it, not only to the person in front of you.

Prices are in US dollars on both the English and the Spanish pages, because destination work in Mexico is mostly quoted in dollars and a price that moves with the exchange rate between the enquiry and the session was never agreed.

The starting price covers the photographer’s time on the session, the selection, the colour work and a private online gallery. The number of edited photographs is stated per service rather than described as "a selection", and there is no per-image charge afterwards.

What moves the price is time and scope rather than anything hidden. A longer session, a second photographer, 24-hour delivery: each is listed as an option and quoted before you book. Where a location charges a permit fee, site entry or an outside-vendor fee, it is named before you book and appears on the invoice as a pass-through rather than a markup.

Nothing is due to get a quote. If conditions make a location genuinely unusable, the session moves at no cost. If the photographer cannot attend and no equivalent replacement is available, every payment is refunded in full.

Four questions make any photography quote comparable, and they are worth asking of everyone. How many edited photographs, and is there a charge per image after that? What does editing include? What may you do with the files? And are location and venue fees quoted up front or invoiced afterwards? The service pages above answer each one.