Photography Pricing & FAQs in Phoenixville

We book anywhere from 2 months to 24 months in advance for wedding coverage - so if you're ready and you're interested in having us photograph your event, send us a message asap! We only photograph one event per day, so when we're booked, we're booked! We strongly recommend with ANY date bound vendor that you love to snatch them up quickly and lock it in with a contract. It's $1,000 to lock in your wedding date, and that retainer goes toward your collection.

A few of our portrait services are able to book online - Mini Sessions, Headshots, Santa Experience Sessions, and Newborn Sessions. Our portrait sessions we book anywhere from 7 days to 9 months in advance - questions about specific sessions can be answered via our contact page. For portrait sessions, a date hold fee (50% of your collection) puts you on the calendar and the rest is due 48 hours before your session. We only photograph one event per day, so when we're booked, we're booked!"

How do I book a photography session or my wedding with you?

We have a multitude of payment plans available for our portrait sessions and our heirloom products. Everyone's situation is different, and our goal is to make sure you have quality photography as well as amazing products that will last beyond your lifetime and tell your unique story to future generations. And yes, wedding collections are split into payments too (usually four).

Your photos are gorgeous, but out of our budget - can I do a payment plan?

Oh. My. Gosh. Destination sessions are some of our absolute FAVORITE!!! Put us on a plane stat! Have passports will travel. How far will we travel? Where do you want to go? Our portfolio includes destinations in Italy, Iceland, Hawaii, Mexico and the islands. There is a world out there to explore and we're ready to take this adventure with you! If you prefer to stay a bit more local - some of the greatest destinations are right in our backyard. From our home city of Philadelphia to New York and Baltimore - we're happy to accommodate our clients with our adventurous spirit. Sessions within 25 miles of Phoenixville include travel. Farther out, we add a small mileage fee, and destinations get a custom travel quote.

Do you travel for photography sessions or destination weddings?

Our bread and butter is weddings and portrait sessions. Our wedding collections include local greater Philadelphia area event coverage as well as destination wedding event coverage. Our portrait sessions include families, babies, mini sessions, Santa, headshots, dogs - well, you name it we'd love to capture it!

Other style events (christening, bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, surprise proposals, etc etc) are done on a case by case basis if we have availability in our schedule.

What kind of events do you shoot?

Yes yes yes! We're happy to provide as much or as little posing assistance as you require. In fact, at least 80-90% of the people you see on our website are "self proclaimed awkward." Don't worry, you'll fit right in with our dream clients! Most of our clients don't have a clue what to do with their faces, hands, or feet before they've gone through a photography session with us and we've been able to successfully impart our poses and desired emotions for many people who have come to be repeat clients.

Do you instruct for posing? I'm self-proclaimed awkward.

We work to get your gallery to you as soon as we lovingly can. Exact timing depends on your type of session and the season, so we set the expectation together when you book. Weddings get a 'same day' sneak peek and a full gallery in about 8–10 weeks.

How soon do we see our photos?

Your portrait gallery stays live for 30 days after your session, giving you plenty of time to browse and decide. During that window, you can add more digital images or heirloom pieces, such as prints and albums, at any time. Just make your selections before the gallery closes.

How long is my online gallery live?

All the photos delivered from your portrait session will be color corrected and cropped. For the main subject(s), we can remove any temporary blemishes (marks that typically disappear within two weeks like pimples or shaving cuts) and anything that is printed in our heirloom products we do a deep dive into retouching for a more extensive photo finishing. Check out some of our before and after images for some editing magic! All our editing is done in-house by Jen.

Do you provide retouching, color adjustment, or other corrective services?

We are insured! We carry a standard $2 million liability policy along with full equipment coverage. If your venue needs a proof of insurance, please let us know and we will send over our certificate.

Are you insured?

Yes... and no (at the same time).

We use whatever lighting is necessary to capture your moments, emotion, and locations and sometimes natural light does not lend itself to capturing the moment at hand (hello bride in white dress at the top of the Art Museum steps at 12:00pm in the dead of summer).

Yes, if the light is stunning wonderfully creamy, dreamy, and delicious... then we just simply pose you, insert emotion, and click away.

This particular lighting scenario happens to be somewhat rare in Pennsylvania and this lingo became super popular with West Coast lighting scenarios. So, being the prepared photographers we are, we travel to your event with no less than 2-3 supplemental lighting options in case Mr. Sunshine is not cooperating with the vision we are set out to document.

Are you a "natural light photographer"?

We truly believe a great photo is created with whatever camera you have in your hands - but if you're interested in the nerdy side of camera gear, we're avid Canon photographers and use mostly Profoto strobes. All our gear is carried in ThinkTank bags. We pride ourselves on being seekers of light whether it's finding the light or creating it and making use of every style of lighting we can use to capture an image.

Jen's go-to lens for signature photos is a toss-up between the RF 10-20mm f4.0 (nicknamed "Gary"), the RF 100-300 2.8, or the EF 200 2.0 -all Canon, of course.  Travis' favorite lens is the RF 70-200mm f2.8 from Canon paired with some crazy good directional window light.

What kind of photography equipment do you use?

We'd LOVE to help you discover your inner photographer! Email us or put in a general inquiry to let us know what you're interested in learning from us!

Can you teach me how to take photos?

We probably consume at least 1500 shots of espresso in a single year. Our coffee bean grinder certainly gets a workout. Beans flown in from our favorite Hawaiian island.

How much coffee do you drink a year?