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Here are a few thoughts on family portraits and sitting fees. I'm John Harrington.
We love doing portraits, with a couple, with the whole family, where we get to sit down
and talk to them about how they would like to have this timeless
moment with either, just a couple or an entire family
memorialized, because it really is going to become a family heirloom. So
when we do that and the time that we invest in sitting down with them and
talking to them
the time that we spend actually taking the picture,
we do charge a sitting fee for and it's important. Sitting fees can be
as little as you know $200 to as much as $500 when you're
working with a couple. It locks in your time. It does compensate you for
your time working with them beforehand and also when you there on the day of
the shoot, taking those pictures. If, after the fact, the couple or the family
doesn't like any of the pictures they still have to pay for the sitting fee,
but if they do like their pictures then that's when
they have to end up paying
for
the enlargement.