Couples

A couple's photo shoot is the perfect way to celebrate your love, engagement, anniversary or special event. The pictures will be treasured for years to come. I take natural, fun-filled, romantic pictures of the two of you. Bursting to the seams with the love, passion, and excitement in your relationship. 

Christchurch has many great locations. 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 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 to ensure that you are really telling your story. 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, 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 you together or many different images. Separate shots, doing lots of different ideas together. You can get up to 25 completely different amazing images and maybe 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 all this is only $495. 

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 - Wear what you, your partner and friends think you look best in. If you're not quite sure, bring 2 or 3 tops, extra bling. Go with your vibe. My only thing is no major creases in the tops. Can sometimes be tough to photoshop out. Best to check prior and iron if need be. If a crease does appear, we can easily iron it here.

Hair and Makeup - Totally up to you. How you like. If you are not sure, I can recommend and organise the best makeup artist & hairstylists I know in this town. $150 for makeup or $190 for hair and makeup. You may want to visit your hairdresser/makeup store just prior to the shoot for a quick style or feel confident getting a friend or just doing it yourself. 

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 see 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.