The following is a general guideline of how our photo sessions will be conducted; please don't let the word "policy" scare you away, and read carefully! While these seem to be a bit "common sense," it would clarify our expectations better:

Session Guidelines


  • General Safety: Please bring a +1/friend as your handler/assistant to help throughout the session.
  • Age Requirement: Anyone involved in the photo session must be 18 years of age or older, unless agreed as family portrait sessions; in that case, please have your parent/legal guardian accompany you.
  • Payment: The first half of the rate is due @ booking as a deposit after agreeing on the time & location. The rest is due on the week of the session to finalize our plans. I accept Venmo, PayPal, or cash (additional payment methods coming soon).
  • Cancellation: You may cancel up to 72 hours (3 days) before the date of our session or the event for a full refund. If any unforeseen emergency occurs (from wardrobe malfunction to personal emergency), please let me know ASAP! We can reschedule to a different time/day/event. If I need to cancel our schedule, I will issue a full refund.
  • Location Permit: if a paid permit is required for the photography session by the city/venue/event/location, the client is responsible for such cost unless negotiated prior to the session.
  • Boundaries: No risqué/NSFW content, unless agreed in prior to the session with multiple parties as a creative collaboration.

General Agreement


This section acts as a model release form, as well as a photography release form. When there is no explicit communication to adjust our expectations, we proceed with the following general agreement:


  • Clients will receive a set number of edited high-resolution images (additional edited images available for purchase).
  • Images may be used for the photographer’s portfolio unless otherwise agreed.
  • The photographer retains copyright; non-commercial/personal use is permitted; commercial use rights may be obtained for an additional fee.
  • If there is a need for physical prints, the photographer agrees to send highest-resolution file optimized for the print size to ensure the photo quality.

Safety


My primary concern is safety. This includes yours, mine, and everyone else’s. How this is implemented ranges from your personal safety, such as my saying, “don’t climb up that muddy rock,” to general public safety, such as discouraging dangerous and potentially illegal behavior (vandalism, trespassing, public indecency, etc.).


At ANY TIME during our sessions, should you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, or if it is inconvenient for you to continue for whatever reason, please do not hesitate to let me or any member involved in the session know. I will take your disclosure as a hard stop for our session. If we stop a session, I may follow up with you to ask what happened, but you are not required to respond.

HARASSMENT


I am committed to providing a welcoming, encouraging atmosphere in our sessions. For that reason, when you sign up, you are agreeing to the following definition of harassment as well as the below policy:


Harassment is generally defined as unwanted behavior that creates an intimidating, offensive, and/or hostile environment for the person being targeted. It can be physical or psychological. If someone tells you that your comments or behavior are unwelcome, you need to stop immediately. If that person tells you to leave them alone, you need to cease contact. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think your behavior was harassing; harassment is defined by the victim.

from Cosplayer Survivor Support Network (https://cosplayer-ssn.org) 


If someone else participating in or observing the session is harassing you, please inform me and we will pause the session to address it however feels best to you (e.g., reporting to staff if it occurs at an event or a convention, shielding you and escorting you to a different site, helping you contact law enforcement only if you wish to do so). 


If your behavior or something you say accidentally offends someone, including me, I will do my best to make it known to you that it was not appropriate as a warning. I would expect that the behavior stops immediately and does not repeat.


If you engage in harassing behavior, either in person or online, with anyone, including me and/or my other clients, I reserve the right to blocklist you from future sessions with me without a warning.


If we are having a session at a convention, either on convention grounds or nearby, I strongly encourage you to please familiarize yourself with their harassment policy, if one exists. Some conventions have hotlines either on their website or on your badge that you can put in your phone’s contacts in case of an emergency.


If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out via email at  iroun.photos@gmail.com.

That was a lot of serious TALK.


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