Our pricing is simple.

Beach, Park, Family Sessions: $99 for the first three hours (We pick up and drive visitors to San Diego to the site). Prints or digital images appear on a web site from which you can select and order individual images as prints. The same images can be ordered as digital files on a CD from our studios.

For about only a total of $140-$240 ($99 session+prints/CD), a couple or small family can buy a session and review about 15-60 cleaned (hue balancing, sharpening, etc.) images and retouched images (with unsightly objects and skin blemishes removed, etc.).  Typically, you can buy about 5-10 prints (usually several large prints and an assortment of smaller prints) within the $140 budget range and about 20-30 prints or order a CD for the higher budget price shown above. For those preferring to order digital images on CD and wanting to keep within the lower budget shown above, you should be able to select a similar number of standard resolution images (4" x 5" at 150 dpi) on a CD.

Once you have an idea of what you'd like to buy, just give us a call and we can discuss a volume discount.

CDs and/or prints are separate. CDs are volume priced — the more images you order the per-image price is reduced. See chart (right) for print prices.

On-Location Session: $99 for the first three hours. Ideal for portraiture and commercial product and event photos.

CDs and/or prints are separate. CDs are volume priced — the more images you order the per-image price is reduced. See chart (right) for print prices.

In-studio Sessions:

1. Passport Session: $12 for passport photo session and print
(includes print with two regulation size images)

2. Basic Individual Portrait: $24 for basic portrait for business cards, wallet prints, resumes
(includes minimal image cleanup and 1 digital image on a CD)

Additional images on the original CD and/or prints are separate. CDs are volume priced — the more images you order the per-image price is reduced. See chart (right) for print prices.

3. Standard Portrait: $59 for a portrait that suggests personality and life style.

(includes image retouching and 1 digital image on CD)

Additional images on the original CDs and/or prints are separate. CDs are volume priced — the more images you order the per-image price is reduced. See chart (right) for print prices.

4. Styled Portrait: $89 for a portrait that suggests personality and life style.

CDs and/or prints separate. CDs are volume priced — the more images you order the per-image price is reduced. See chart (right) for print prices.

Image Pricing/Handling

For family, beach, park, wedding and projects that required image selection, all the final images from your session will be uploaded on a web site for your review. These images will be archived for five years. You can buy prints directly from the site at any time using an easy-to-use menu. Digital images on a CD or DVD are calculated and are then ordered directly from our studio. Digital images on the CD can be use to create images on other formats (canvas wraps, albums, etc.). Buying images on other media can be order with us or from any company you wish.

CD/DVD:
Price-per-image decreases as you buy more images and if you lower the image resolution.

"Premium High-Resolution" digital images are 8" x 10 "at 300 dpi; Standard resolution images are 4" x 5" at 150 dpi and "Basic Low-Resolution" images (4" x 5" at 72 dpi) with standard usage rights except for reselling them.

Prints:
Print prices are listed in the "Guide to Photographic Services" on the right.

Prices begin at $1.25 for a 3" x 5" and the more popular sizes (5" x 7", 6" x 9", and 8" x 10") range from $3.00 to $9.50.

Scaling of images is important. When you see that we've supplied an 8" x 10" image, you need to remember that it can be scaled up to a 16" x 20" print or scaled down to a 4"x 5"print  — all these will fit a standard matte and frame size. An image that's 8" x 12" scales down to a 6" x 9" print and can fit within a 3" x 5" paper print. Again, these match the sizes and proportions of pre-made print paper, mattes and frames.

 

Advertising, Product and Public Relations Photography


We offer businesses a wide range of image and promotional services:

• For Branding and Promotions — photos for public relations programs, advertising, special promotions/meetings, corporate VIP portraits and annual report photos, etc. We also provide graphic services for ads, promotional flyers and brochures, exhibit booth graphics, and for other uses such as corporate brand and identity packages and product brand development,

• For Products — product photos for web pages and printed data sheets and promotional materials for: electronics, medical (devices, pharmaceuticals, hospital, etc.), food (retail/wholesale, restaurant facilities/locales, food processing devices, etc.), transportation (company promotions, vehicles, sports/racing, etc.), and more.

• For Services — Food handling, styling, personalities, celebrities, performances, business operations (documenting processes [photo/video], meetings, ceremonies, etc.), training videos, construction, documenting timelines, for insurance purposes, emergency services (training videos, documentation of damage/wounds and for drills and exercise assessment photos/videos), legal (site characteristics, surveillance, documentation, personal identification, etc.), architectural, insurance (site verification, personal identification, surveillance, etc.), health care (procedure documentation, training programs, portraits of staff/award-winners, etc.), and small businesses needing the services listed above.

Many of the products and services described in this web site such as "prints," "albums" and so forth, can produced and used to fulfill business applications. Imagine your product having its "portrait taken." Ask if its "personality" would show best outdoors at a scenic beach area, in a grand ballroom, or in our studio under controlled lighting. Of course, we typically use marketing research and situational factors, nuances gleaned from secondary market data and online analytics to create imagery appropriate and appealing to your markets and individual customers.

Give us a call at 858 268-4278 and let's see what we can do for you!