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Family Portrait Package

Each family has different expectations when it comes to photography. So, rather than limiting you to choose a preset package, we charge an image creation fee. We then edit the images in Photoshop and provide you with a cd to take home.

$275. 1½-hour photo shoot on location
Images to be professionally edited with Photoshop Editing for your presentation
DVD of all images taken
DVD of final edited photos set to music in a slide show presentation
20% off Family Portrait Package for locals

-Tax and $6.00 Shipping will be added to your total.

-Shipping of your final package will be within 3-5 days from your shoot.

-Up to two locations for your shoot as long as the locations are within 5 miles. If over 5 miles, a $50 charge will be added.

- Hana Shoots- Please add $120.00 to the total

-A $100 non- refundable deposit is require to secure your date. You may change your date without any other charges up to 72 hours before your shoot as long as there is availability without any charge. Your deposit will be deducted from your total fee.

- Final payment is due the day of the shoot.

Accepted Payment Method: Visa / Master Card or Cash (Only)

-Extra DVD’s are $10 each

- Shipping to multiple parties will result in additional shipping charges.

Children Portraits Package

High-end digital photography of your children. No minimum age. Bring your child’s favorite play things to customize the session around your child’s unique personality.

$225.  1 hour photo shoot on location
Images to be professionally edited with Photoshop Editing for your presentation
DVD of all images taken
DVD of final edited photos set to music in a slide show presentation
$25. for each additional child
20% off Children Portraits Package for locals

Here’s Mele with her two friends, “Lela and Kristin” with goofy.

Aloha,

The top photo is my daughter Mele-sia on the tram entering Disneyland. This is Mele’s first trip to the mainland and as you can see she’s is shock. The photo was taken on a little digital camera my friend lent me so sorry for the quality.   The next photo is of Mele’s new sisters. I am so blessed that my good freind Sandra and her husband Sam agreed to take Mele in the case I was to pass on. Now Mele has three new sisters a brother and a new mommy and daddy. Below you can see Mele’s new family.

Selling Your Photography To Agencies.

Have you ever tried to sell your images to an agency.

Anyone
with the ability to use a camera correctly has the potential to sell
their images. Picture agencies handle images of every subject and are
always looking for emerging talent.

Pictures
libraries and stock agencies are in the business of selling images. The
don’t give you advice on how to take better images. Their purpose is
business - they sell images to magazines, book publishers, the travel
industry and many other industries that use images.

Many
photographers look upon agencies as a last resort to sell their work;
if you have been unable to sell any of your images, the chances are
that most agencies won’t accept them.

If
you are interested in an agency selling your images, you must be able
to produce high quality images which are suited to the agencies market.
Check out their website to view samples that are currently in use.
If you feel your work meets their standards and suits their customers -
then approach them by e-mail or by standard mail.

But,
before placing your work at an agency make a short-list of the agencies
that seem to suit your work. Contact each agency outlining your work
and which magazines have already published your images. If an agency is
then interested they will ask you to send them samples.

If an agency accepts your work, don’t take this as a guarantee that your images will sell.

Don’t
approach an agency until you have a large collection of images. Minimum
first submissions can consist of anything from 50 images to 500 and
regular submissions are normally required thereafter. Most agencies
work on a commission basis - 50 % being the standard rate. If an image
sells for two hundred euro - the photographer receives a one hundred
euro fee.

When
an agency takes on a photographer’s work, they normally require a four
or five year retention period. Agencies normally sell the reproduction
rights of a pictures - the image being licensed to a buyer for a
specified purpose.

It
may take as long as six months before an agency sells a picture
belonging to you. First they need to scan your images if they are
submitted by film; then they need to contact their clients and let them
know that there is new material available - all of this takes time, so
you must look at supplying a picture agency as a long term investment.
It is only when you have several hundred images placed in a library
that you’ll start to see regular sales.

Remember:
agencies can’t sell images if there isn’t a market for them and placing
images at an agency does not guarantee you sales.