Your Investment & What to Expect Before, During & After Your Atlanta Photography Session
Atlanta Photography Session Pricing
Primary rates include Erica Aitken as your photographer. If you are looking for a more affordable option, but still want a unique photography session experience and high quality photographs with the “Erica Aitken Photography look,” you may want to consider booking with one of my fabulous associate photographers.
All of my team have been hand-picked by me, have worked with me for multiple years and are consummate professionals in the Atlanta photography industry. When an associate photographs your session you’ll receive a discount on your shoot, but I’ll still be your main point of contact and will handle the retouching and delivery of your images.
Event Photography Packages
(corporate functions, conventions, conferences, birthdays, family reunions & more!)
- Event sessions start at $675 (with Erica) or $550 (with an associate).
- This rate includes 2 hours of shoot time and light retouching of your favorite images.
- Additional hours of event coverage (beyond the first 2 hours) are billed at $250/hour.
- You’ll have the option to purchase fine art products through Erica’s professional print laboratory.
- Book multiple days of event coverage and receive a discount!
Portrait & Headshot Photography Packages
(individual, couples, family, senior graduation, proposals, engagements, pets & more!)
- Portrait & Headshot sessions start at $325 (with Erica) or $200 (with an associate).
- Your photography experience is completely customizable! You’ll be able to build your package to include the amount of shoot time, the number of participants and the number of fully retouched final digital images delivered to you.
- You’ll have the option to purchase fine art products through Erica’s professional print laboratory.
- You’ll also have the option to add an in-home styling consultation onto your package.
Corporate Headshot Photography Packages for Multiple Subjects
- My associates and I would love to capture headshots for your employees!
- Your personnel will all have headshots which are photographed in the same style, lighting and environment. This will not only look more professional and refined, but will also ensure you maintain a consistent brand image for your company.
- Please reach out to me for your customized headshot photography package quote and information.
Bar Mitzvah & Bat Mitzvah Event Photography Packages
- $800 (with Erica) or $675 (with an associate).
- This rate includes 2 hours of shoot time and light retouching of your favorite images.
- Additional hours of event coverage (beyond the first 2 hours) are billed at $250/hour.
- You’ll have the option to purchase fine art products through Erica’s professional print laboratory.
Full Wedding Photography Packages
- Full Wedding Package rates start at $3,995 and include 7 to 10 hours of photography coverage with Erica + one associate photographer on Erica’s team (2 total professional wedding photographers) to capture your big day, as well as high-resolution digital downloads of your best retouched images.
- Please reach out to me for detailed Wedding Photography Package pricing information.
Budget Wedding Photography Packages
(elopements, courthouse weddings, backyard weddings & shorter weddings with less than 50 guests)
- Are you having a shorter more intimate wedding with 50 guests or less? Budget Photography Package rates start at $875 and include 1 to 4 hours of photography coverage with one photographer, as well as high-resolution digital downloads of your best retouched images.
- Please reach out to me for detailed Budget Wedding Photography Package pricing information.
Gift Certificates (The perfect gift for the ones you love!)
- Gift certificates from Erica Aitken Photography are the perfect personalized gift for any occasion!
- Gift certificates come in a pretty metallic envelope tied up with a bow, and are ready for delivery to your loved one.
- They are good for one year from the date of purchase, are completely transferrable and can be used toward any photography package of the recipient’s choosing.
- Gift certificates have a minimum purchase price of $150 and no maximum purchase limit.
- Your gift certificate will be mailed to you via USPS, for a flat shipping/handling charge of $5. If you choose to electronic delivery of your gift certificate, the shipping cost is waived.
Looking for digital image package and fine art product descriptions and pricing? Please CLICK HERE for more information and base pricing on all of the fabulous options available to you.
Before Your Photography Session
Prior to meeting on the day of your Atlanta photography session, we’ll schedule a phone consultation to get to know one another and discuss your specific photographic needs. During your phone consult I’ll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have for me. We’ll chat about our shared artistic goals as well as what you’d like to have as your end result from your shoot, including your preference for printed fine art products versus digital images. We’ll discuss whether you will be best served by working directly with me or by working with one of my wonderful associate photographers. You’re guaranteed to love your photos regardless of whether you book directly with me or with one of my associates.
We’ll collaborate in advance to make sure we capture the moments you’ll treasure for years to come. As your Atlanta Photographer, being a creative powerhouse is absolutely essential. Ultimately, I want you to come away from your Atlanta photography experience knowing with confidence that your session was completely one-of-a-kind and original. From our very first conversation you and I will become a brainstorming team, uniting to make sure your unique style, personality and passions are reflected in every one of your photographs.
Please feel free to reach out to me anytime with any creative ideas or inspirations that you’d like to try out during your Atlanta photography session. Together we’ll plan your outfits, color-scheme and a location for your photo shoot. Since my style of photography is natural, relaxed and photo-journalistic, it’s incredibly important that we select an activity or location for your Atlanta photography session that will allow you and your loved ones to enjoy your time together and interact as you truly are in daily life.
In order for me and my associate photographers to capture the emotional connection and genuine relationships between you an your loved ones, you’ll need to be relaxed and comfortable. So, if your family has a great time going to the ice cream shop, let’s do your family portrait shoot there! If you and your sweetheart met on the downtown Decatur Square and love to drink wine, let’s do your engagement photography session at a local wine bar and around the Decatur area! If you love nature and your dog, let’s photograph you and your dog playing along the Chattahoochee River! One of my favorite parts of my job is helping you select a unique location and backdrop for your Atlanta photography session that will truly allow your photographs to be authentic and personalized!
During Your Photography Session
An Atlanta photography session with me or my associates is never high-pressure or stressful. We are all very laid back and won’t make you feel you need to perform; all that’s required of you is a positive attitude and a willingness to do what you do best: interact genuinely with your loved ones and take the time to really experience the authentic emotion in your daily relationships and special occasions. Try to breathe deeply, relax, really connect with each other and focus on savoring your experience spending time together. That’s it. You just have to be yourself and enjoy the moment! Easy, right?!
Throughout your Atlanta photography session we may move you a bit here or there in order to make sure we are getting the right angles and the best light, but you are never going to feel forced to “pose” (the only exception to this is boudoir shoots, during which I will specifically pose you to flatter your figure best). Please don’t worry; just because we take a step back and allow your interactions to occur more naturally, my associates and I are still going to make sure you look your very best before snapping the shutter button!
Organic, one-of-a-kind intimate moments cannot be planned for; we want to capture them spontaneously! So just relax, be yourself and allow me and my associate photographers to take care of everything else. As your Atlanta photographer specialists we’ll make certain your photography session results in innovative, artistic and beautiful professionally retouched photographs that you will have an emotional connection to, forever.
After Your Photography Session
After your Atlanta photography session you’ll be able to pick your favorite photos for retouching from a private online proofing gallery. Once I’ve received your selections I’m meticulous with my editing process and spend hours retouching and enhancing your favorite photographs so that you will receive the highest quality end results possible.
Event photos are lightly retouched, which includes color correction of all of your selected photos. Portrait and Wedding photos are fully retouched, which includes color correction plus additional enhancements, such as skin smoothing, blemish removal, teeth whitening, hair flyaway removal, body slimming (yes, I can make you instantly drop those 20 pesky extra pounds!) and more. Although I do detailed editing of your images, I’ll ensure that you still look like you! My pet peeve as a photographer are photos in which the subjects look overly-retouched, unnatural, plastic, or fake. I promise that my natural subtle enhancement of your images will leave you looking the very best possible authentic version of yourself!
All final edited photos may be delivered electronically via digital download from an online gallery, and are sent as full high-resolution jpegs. Event photos are retouched in color only. If you’ve booked a Portrait, Headshot, Mitzvah or Wedding package, your selected images will be fully retouched in color and also in black & white.
After your photos have been delivered you’ll have the option to place orders for printed fine art products through my professional photographer’s print laboratory. I highly recommend having your favorite images printed so you can display them in your home and enjoy your custom-created original photo artwork for many years to come!
CONTACT ME TODAY
I am always here to help! Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any additional questions about the photography session process with Erica Aitken Photography.
You can reach me by calling (404) 556-8780 or by using this convenient Contact Form. Whichever method you choose, you’ll quickly discover that I offer the utmost in affordable value combined with a uniquely personalized photographic experience.
Warmest Wishes from Your Atlanta Photographer,
~Erica Aitken
Erica Aitken Photography
My Atlanta Photographer
Atlanta, Georgia
(404) 556-8780
Erica@MyAtlantaPhotographer.com
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