The cost of your session fee covers the photographers time and expertise before, during and after your session. We dedicate all of our skills and expertise to ensure that your images truly capture the personality of the subject, and that they are of the highest quality. You will not find a "get you in - get you out" mentality at Life Prints Portrait Design. We care about our clients and put a great deal of effort into making sure you are happy with your final images.

With all of our portrait sessions, we will take as much time as necessary to create the images you are looking for with us. A typical session lasts between 60-90 minutes, although sometimes newborn sessions can go longer. Don’t worry if the baby fusses or if you’re little one needs a break. We can stop for feedings, diaper changes, snack breaks ... whatever you need to make this a comfortable and enjoyable experience.

In addition, with your session fee you will receive a full color bound proof book containing all of your final images, an online viewing gallery to share with family and friends, and 3 web ready images on CD for use with email, Facebook, etc.

We are able to use our experience in lighting and backgrounds within a studio style setting to provide you with a relaxing, personal experience and a unique selection of images. With this session, we bring the studio to you in your home, office or other suitable location.

This is an ideal setting for maternity and newborn portraits as well as many children and family portraits. If you are looking for a more traditional feel for your portrait, then this is a good option. We are continually adding to our backdrops and props in order to provide a wide variety of unique portrait experiences for you.

What is a location based portrait session? 

A location based portrait session can take place just about anywhere. Your home or office, a park, an urban setting, the beach, the forest... you name it! With this type of session, the possibilities are endless and we can make your photo session unique to your style and personality. Instead of using backdrops and studio style lighting, we use the environment of the location we choose together to compliment your portrait session.

Also, having your portrait done in a location that has special meaning to you can make a great portrait feel exceptional because it has so much more meaning to you.

A reservation fee is required to hold the date & time of your portrait session or event.  Once you have paid your reservation fee, we stop taking requests from other clients for that date and time.  This protects both you and Life Prints,  as we can plan ahead knowing that we have a session or event scheduled for that date and time, and you can be assured that we will be there at the scheduled date and time.  The reservation fee is non-refundable and will be applied towards your final balance. 

Portrait Sessions:  If you should have to change a session date or time, we will gladly reschedule for you based on our availability, with at least 48 hours notice.  Cancellations with less than 48 hours notice and no shows will forfeit the reservation fee.  The reservation fee on Portrait sessions is $90.00.

We want you to take a look at this article written by our photographer Lora.  We think it will help you to understand what to expect when you call and why in fact this type of session is such a great idea.  One of things that we want our expectant moms to understand is that this portrait session is about you.  We want you to be as comfortable as possible.  Part of that is that it is your decision how much or how little clothing you want to wear for your maternity session.  You can be fully clothed and not even show a bare belly or we can have just your bare belly peaking out from under a shirt.  We can also use luxurious draping material rather than clothing to showcase your beautiful pregnant self without actually exposing too much skin, or we can do fully nude, wonderfully artistic and gorgeous portraits where we truly showcase the beauty of your pregnancy.  All of these options will provide you with stunning portraits of this special time in yours and your unborn child's life.  And don't forget that we can make this a family affair and include siblings, spouse/partner, the family pet... whatever makes it special for you.

Often people ask us why we don't offer CD's of the images we take of our clients.

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