Children

Children's Portrait Photographer Christchurch, New Zealand.

I like to create natural, relaxed, fun pictures of your children that capture their personalities, providing a lasting reminder of a moment in their childhood for years to come. It’s about photographing a fleeting moment in their childhood that is over all too soon. 

Photographs of your children aren’t just for you. They’re a lovely memento for your kids as well. So, in the future, they’ll look at these beautifully shot portraits and think about the good times they had. 

Christchurch has many beautiful locations perfect for a natural, relaxed setting. You are welcome to choose your favourite park, beach, hillside, the botanical gardens, any place you like, or you can leave it up to me to help you decide. My studio or your family home is an excellent option; it's comfortable, personal, and accommodating for changing wardrobes. 

I will come up with plenty of ideas for the photo session and welcome your ideas. It's a fun, packed, exciting, and creative photo shoot.

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. 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 kids together or many different images - different combinations, separate shots, doing lots of different ideas together. You can get up to 25, or most likely many more, completely different, amazing images. 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 1 child = $345, 2 children = $445, 3 children = $525, 4 children = $595

There is no extra fee for location portraits within Christchurch, as I love to get out of the studio, and I think some kids are more relaxed and happy at a spot they like or that has meaning. 

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. 

What to wear for children portraits - Just wear what you and your kids think they look good in. Wear what they are. It definitely doesn’t have to match. Dressing smart is good. But it's fine if it’s the latest fashion for your daughter with ripped jeans. Or a surfing logo on a shirt. Someone can be smart, and someone can be casual. Maybe a good idea to bring 2 or 3 tops if you're not too sure, and then we can choose. It's all up to you. If you do all want the kids to match, then that's cool. My only thing is no major creases in the tops. Tough to photoshop out on some tops with patterns. Best to check prior and iron if need be. 

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, 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 medium (such as prints 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.