Babies

Baby Portrait Photography Christchurch, New Zealand.

Your baby's first year is an amazing time, full of changes and with many different opportunities for photographs. Whether you choose to mark all the milestones – newborn, three months, six months and first birthday - or just one, I will ensure that you have beautiful pictures that you will treasure forever.

What I offer is unlike any other portrait studio around. Getting your baby portrait taken with me is far from a quick snap. I'd like to think of it as a time of expression in which to capture your baby’s personality, and maybe the relationships you share with your baby. Allow me to document a time in your baby’s life that will soon be gone and preserve it for you to remember always.

I understand that your baby has a routine, and I will work around that, making sure that your baby feels comfortable throughout the photographic session and that we have a relaxed and happy time. 

My focus is on beautifully presented, high-resolution digital images so you can get prints of any size on any medium you choose anytime in the future, or share on social media. I also offer high-end pieces of artwork for your walls, mantelpiece or bedside cabinets. 

I always work with maximum passion and professionalism to capture the emotion, the details, and the love in photos that will make your memories last forever. You are guaranteed custom-made work of the highest quality. I would love to hear from you; please feel free to get in touch for more information.

Portrait Price List:

You may just be after one awesome image of your baby or many different images, including the whole family. You can get up to 25 completely different amazing images and most likely many more. It all depends on what I'm shooting for and how many images you get, but no good images are left out. 

My fee for everything is $595

There is no extra fee for location portraits within Christchurch, as I love to get out of the studio and I think some folk are more relaxed and happy to have their baby photos taken at home.

My fee is really good with this flat rate = no hidden costs like many other portrait photographers who charge you a small or free sitting fee, then push you to spend up to even thousands for the pictures, and that's maybe not even including the digital images. 

Extra Info:

Booking - You're very welcome to meet up in advance so I can help you plan your session in person. If time or distance is not easy, then we can chat via email/phone. Upon booking, you will be required to pay the full amount up to 48 hrs prior via internet banking or at the start of our session in cash. I provide a 100% money-back cancellation fee up to 1 hour prior to the start of the session. So do not worry if someone is not feeling well or the weather is terrible and you need to postpone or cancel.

The session - Expect the entire session to be half to an hour, but it's so much fun it seems very quick. We shoot as many ideas as we can to get our awesome bunch of images.

The session - Expect the entire session to be half to an hour, but it's so much fun it seems very quick. We shoot as much as we can, as many ideas as we can, to get our awesome bunch of images.

After the session - I will spend a couple of hours picking the hundreds of photos we took down to a perfect amount. No good image is missed out. I then spend a couple of hours ever so slightly improving the image quality. That is exposure, colours, framing, and taking out anything distracting. Then I email you the high/full-resolution images for you to download to your computer to have forever. I suggest you share the images to other computers and stick them on an external hard drive, i.e. create multiple backups. We do keep backups here in case you ever lose the images.

You can choose to help select the finals. It is a difficult and tedious task with family portraits as you have to look at more than one face at a time for each image to see what is best for everyone, and people can go crazy doing this; hence, I don't recommend it. But I do not mind one bit and totally understand if you wish to. I give you so many images that you will definitely know nothing good is missed. I pride myself on giving the ultimate after-sales service, so even if you want all the (in-focus / properly exposed) images, you get them as well. Lately I've had some people like editing with their images themselves on the computer, and I understand. 

Reprints & Enlargements:

You can order basic reprints and enlargements easily through me for only what the lab charges for printing. This is an amazing after-sales service that I fully recommend. So roughly a 6x4 inch reprint = $1, 5x7 inch = $3, A4 / 8x12 / 8x10 inch) size print = $10, etc. 

If you're after getting great quality photo prints yourself, then I only recommend going to Kens Cameras on Victoria Street. If you do choose to order at Kens, I can meet you there to help you choose what images you would like printed, to what size, and what medium, such as prints that you can frame, canvas, metal, acrylic, etc. Or just pop in yourself, as they are very helpful and have samples and sizes, and no obligation to get any printing done if you’re still deciding.