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 beforehand as a family session; 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:


  • The photographer retains all copyright to the photos; images may NOT be used for any commercial use. You may not sell the rights to use the images to any third party.
  • RAW image files will not be shared.
  • Images are not to be modified in any substantive ways nor to be used/submitted to AI image tools.
  • Cropping is allowed only for social media platform's aspect ratio requirements (e.g. Instagram's 4:5 ratio)

Safety


My primary concern is safety. This includes yours, mine, and everyone else’s. How this is implemented ranges from your personal safety 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.

That was a lot of serious TALK.


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