We’d love to work with you. Please read through our policies below and let us know if you have any questions. If you’d like to book, please click HERE for our online calendar where you can place a deposit via Paypal to reserve your session (your deposit counts towards your total). You’ll receive a confirmation email including a link you can use to reschedule your shoot, notes on our address, on clothing, on makeup, etc. Please note: We change our prices periodically. If 3 months have passed since your price quote, please check-in before placing a deposit.
- Package: You will receive 150–200 processed images in both high and low-resolution, as well as an online viewing gallery. You’ll be able to download your print-resolution and web-sized image files through DROPBOX about 10 business days after your shoot. You can use any of these photos for printing or posting online (see copyright below for details about usage).
- Price $1,100 (all taxes included): The session lasts 2 hours; 3.5 hrs for women with makeup/hair and 3 hrs for men. This allows us to relax and collaborate on several options in terms of clothing, lighting, mood, background color, expressiveness, etc.
- Makeup & light hair (additional charge): Makeup & light hair (additional charge): For women: $275, Makeup/hair for men: $225, For clients outside of the gender binary, we can talk about your specific goals for hair and makeup and price that accordingly (so either $225 or $275 for makeup and light hair). In addition, specific gender-affirming services are available upon special request for trans/gnc/non-binary people of all genders. Kindly reach out to us to discuss your goals and ideas. The makeup artist will be in the studio throughout your shoot, touching things up between changes. The MUA is here to collaborate with you, so feel free to communicate your preferences. Our aesthetic is a pretty natural one, and our goal is to have you look like yourself, in a way you can easily recreate for auditions and meetings.
Optional Additional Charges: If you need a major hair change (curly to straight, straight to curly) please book your shoot on an AFTERNOON. If you need to shoot with both hair “looks”, one hour will be added to your shooting time, and two surcharges will be applied: $50 to the makeup/hair artist and $100 to the photographer. If you simply need to have that major hair change done before your shoot, and are only shooting with one of those hair “looks”, you will only have the $50 makeup/hair surcharge added (for example, you’re arriving with curly hair and need it to be straightened for your shoot). Please communicate either in your booking notes
- Retouching: Retouches available at $58+ per photo and are not included in the shoot. This retouch includes a high-resolution image and up to 30 minutes of retouching time. Additional retouching is $25 per 15 minutes. In most cases, 30 minutes is enough time but retouching varies on individual need and level of retouching you request.
- Deposits: A non-refundable deposit of $350 is required to reserve a session. Rescheduling can occur up to seven days before a shoot. Rescheduling with less than seven days’ notice would result in losing your deposit. You may reschedule your appointment twice without losing your deposit, so long as it is within a year of your initial session date.
- Refunds: We want you to love your images, but we do not offer refunds. What we do offer is all our effort and expertise in getting the kinds of images you see in our portfolio.
- Copyrights/Usage: Clients are welcome to use these images to promote themselves on their own websites or the websites of their work, submit prints for potential work, speaking engagements, or representation, upload to industry websites and blogs, and internal reports. The images may not be used for commercial purposes, or by any 3rd party without my written consent. Feel free to ask if you have usage questions.
- Getting it Right the First Time: We want you to love your images, but we do not offer refunds. What we do offer is all our effort and expertise in getting the kinds of images you see in our portfolio. We’re very lucky in that we do this every day. Small adjustments are made for each client, but we are very practiced and consistent in what we do. Your images will look like our portfolio images, but with you in them. Here are some things you can do to be sure your experience and results are as good as what you see in our portfolio.
#1: Know what you need. If you need to express something in your shots, If your hair needs to be a certain way, if your makeup needs to be a certain way, if your agent or manager needs a certain “look”, prepare for that and communicate those things with us. Ask to review your images during the shoot. Don’t let it be a distraction, but make sure things are as you want them to be.
#2: Collaborate with us. Tell us what you do and don’t like in our portfolio. We need flexibility to do our jobs well but if you hate a certain background, please tell us.
#3: Prepare. Get the clothes you need. It matters. Get sleep, book out your day, take care of your skin, get your hair cut and/or colored by a trusted stylist. Get your brows shaped if you need them shaped, get your upper lip hair bleached/waxed if you need to. Schedule our makeup/hair person. The better you prepare, the more comfortable you’ll be.
#4: Most importantly, engage. Engage the photographer, engage the camera. Your photos need to be alive and active and real. A headshot is not something that is done to you. It’s a living process that you engage in collaboratively, just like the work you do on stage and in film. Be present, be active.