All family, engagement, and baby sessions include an online gallery of the final, edited images with high resolution downloads and permission to post, print, and use as you like.
—FAMILY SESSIONS—
Family sessions have become more important to us as we get older and grow our family. Capturing each stage of life with our kids enables us to cherish memories of them and remember their little personalities as they develop and grow.
We have three children, Judah, Claire, & Jules, who are the most beautiful, blue eyed, easygoing children. We love spending time with them and watching them grow and learn independence. Having children has furthered our passion as portrait photographers since we love capturing every milestone so we can look back for years to come. We really think family portraits are essential and so we try to keep them affordable for every family to get once a year. We know how fast kids grow and how short life truly can be and know it’s important to capture a moment in time. Our goal in a portrait session isn’t to show a perfect family, but to show who you are at this moment which is why we have fun, play together, run a race, blow bubbles, and maybe I will make you dance to Justin Bieber in the park with your teenagers. Typically I, Mary, will tag along and give instructions and act like a fool to get everyone to smile, while Seth takes the pictures. We have a couple tricks up our sleeves but ultimately we want you to just have fun with your family. We try to take several poses of everyone, individuals, each child with each parent, just the kids and even just the parents! (Below are are a few examples of a nature family session.)
We try to keep it light and fun and wander around an outdoor location. We accept sessions Monday-Thursday and Saturday/Sunday when we don't have weddings.If you have a specific location in mind, let me know. We want to keep all our sessions within 30 miles of Ottawa, IL or there will be an additional travel fee of $25.
Full Family session:45-60 minutes, two locations, estimated 150-200 images —$400
Half Family session: 15-20 minutes, one location, estimated 50-100 images -$225
Extended Family session-60-90 minutes, one location with multiple groupings, estimated 200 images -$600 (best for large groups)
---SOAPBOX MOMENT---
Too often I hear women use excuses about their appearance to keep them from being in the pictures. I have to challenge myself to be IN the picture a lot of the time, too. But when I look back at pictures of me as a kid with my parents and my dad has these ridiculous short shorts and my mom has an outrageous perm and some not-so-flattering mom jeans, I don't care. It makes me remember that time we went to the beach. It is just my mom. We were together. I really encourage you to put aside your insecurities about yourself and get pictures with your kids at every age. They will love having them to look back and remember your relationship with them. They aren't going to critique your wrinkles or fluffy middle but they will just see their beautiful mom and remember how you made them feel. And yes, ok, if your mom jeans come up to your waist and are tucked into a denim shirt, they may make a comment or write on their website someday. Sorry, Mom.
—-OTHER PORTRAIT SESSIONS—-
—-HEADSHOTS—- $125/person
Headshots can be done at our home with a blue background or at our studio with a white background. Will include several poses and digital downloads. Group photo included if everyone schedules on the same day.
—-BUSINESS BRANDING SESSION ON LOCATION—-$400
Photos of you, your business, your merchandise, your location for you to use for promotion and advertising. We will plan ahead a little bit after talking through what you are wanting and come to your business for an hour session including a variety of pictures.
---SENIORS--- $300
We don't travel for seniors so the session must take place within 30 minutes of Ottawa. 1 hour session with multiple outfit changes and locations!
ALL PORTRAIT SESSIONS RECEIVE A GALLERY WITHIN A MONTH VIA EMAIL.
If your child is having an off day & we don't feel the picture are up to par, we will offer a retake session in Ottawa & coordinate with you to schedule a time.
(Here are our munchkins! Photo by the ever amazing Bobbi Photo!!)
