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Personal portrait sessions
A 90-minute personal portrait sitting delivers 35 to 45 finished frames.
Shot on a medium-format digital body in the studio room or on location around Austin, and handed back as a private gallery, not a folder of raw exports.
What this sitting is
Built for one person, not a family lineup or a headshot line
This is the session for one person who wants a set of photographs that actually look like them: an editorial portrait for a website bio, a set for a dating profile that isn't a screenshot, a gift for a parent, or simply a record of what you look like at this age, done properly instead of on a phone against a wall. We book it for individuals almost exclusively — if you need photographs of a founder for a company site, that's the business portrait sitting instead, priced and lit differently.
The 90 minutes covers a walkthrough of two or three looks or settings, real conversation instead of a director barking pose numbers at you, and enough time to relax into the second half of the shoot, which is usually where the better frames come from. We don't rush a client through fifteen setups in an hour; that's how you end up with thirty-eight photographs that all look like the first uncomfortable minute.
Every frame comes off a medium-format digital body. That matters less if the only place your portrait will ever live is a phone screen, and it matters a great deal if you intend to print it at 20x30 for a wall or a lobby — the extra resolution and dynamic range in the file is the difference between a print that holds up close and one that goes soft past 8x10.
What's included
The specifics, so there's nothing to guess at
| Detail | What you get |
|---|---|
| Duration | 90 minutes on site, extendable to 60 or 120 minutes on request before booking |
| Setting | Studio room off Cedar Court, or on location within Austin at no extra scouting note |
| People in frame | One subject; a second person can be added and is priced as a location series instead |
| Finished frames | 35–45 |
| Delivery | Private online gallery within 10 working days of the sitting |
| Camera | Medium-format digital body, natural or window light, no on-camera flash |
| Prints | Available as an add-on; adds roughly 3 working days for the lab |
| Price basis | Flat fee per 90-minute sitting, confirmed by inquiry — not shown as a checkout price |
Who books this
People who want one honest photograph, not forty poses to choose from
Most clients are individuals in Austin looking for an editorial portrait photographer rather than a mall-studio package — people updating a professional bio photo outside of a company shoot, marking a birthday or a transition, or wanting portraits for family without the stiffness of a formal studio sitting. If what you actually need is one current photograph of yourself for a company website, look at the business portrait session instead: the lighting and headcount rules are different, and it's billed differently too.
We don't do the mall-studio thing where you flip through eighty near-identical frames on a screen while someone tries to upsell you a package. You get 35 to 45 already-chosen, already-finished photographs. If none of them work for what you needed, that's on us to have asked better questions before the shutter ever clicked.
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