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I charge a flat fee of $150.00 per hour, plus expenses.   

Those expenses have been itemized, as much as possible, in the Price List.  The quoted prices will be the billed prices until they are changed on this site.  This includes aerial photography, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal, medical and commercial photography services.

You will decide for yourselves how much time and which services will be needed.

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My assignments are usually billed per hour, plus materials.  However, some assignments are priced per assignment, regardless of the time required to get the shots.  Still other assignments are bulk priced according to the actual volume of work received and time needed to complete the tasks at hand.

 

 

 

Within the State of California, the State Board of Equalization requires me to charge and to collect a Sales Tax on both my services and my materials produced for sale, unless the assignment is for the Government or for Resale.

 

 

 

This is called "Rule #1528".  Out of State assignments will not be charged a tax unless required by the Board.  I will confirm the issues with the Board before your assignment is bid.

 

 

 

My State EIN number will be on my invoices.

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Once your project has been bid and accepted, the amount billed will equal the amount bid unless there have been requested changes.  All such changes will need to be approved at some point so that there is no conflict between the numbers bid and billed.

 

 

 

This includes aerial photography, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal, medical and commercial photography services.

 

I accept Cash, Check, Visa, MasterCard and Discover Cards. 

I will not be able to accept American Express cards. 

All charges will need to be approved in advance.  All charge payments will be taken- in person.  I do not accept internet or online charges. 

All new clients will need to pay in advance or COD on delivery of the products.  Existing, approved clients will have a NET 30 pay period with an additional 2% Monthly Interest rate for Past Due invoices.

Some assignments will require advance Retainer Fees for a portion of the amount due.

Some aerial photography, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal, medical and commercial photography services will require periodic payments as will be determined and agreed in the contracts. 

 

You will receive 1 DVD copy of your RAW files unless additional copies are ordered.

You can have me do as much or as little as you wish.  If all you want me to do is to shoot, you will receive all of the original camera RAW files.  It will be up to you to convert all of those RAW files properly. 

If you would like for me to convert and to post produce your original camera RAW files, we will need to discuss the purpose of the images, the deadlines involved and the approved budgets included.  Depending on what you need the images for, they will have to be post-produced in a specific manner.  The purpose may affect the sizes and dpi resolutions required for the best possible output. 

RAW files must be post-processed according to their intended use.  High definition publications require a specific type of file.  

 

 

 

I will maintain two copies of all of your RAW, TIFF and JPEG files on DVD and on two 500GB, external, Seagate Hard Drives.

I will use the highest quality Fuji, single-sided, DVD+R discs, burned and verified at 4x, on my Sony 530A and Plextor optical drives.  Every disc will be image-verified before being released.  No labels or markings will be made on the discs themselves.

Accelerated aging studies have shown that basic, single-sided discs have a shelf life of about 5 years. 

After that time, they may begin to delaminate or to "rot" away.  Once this process begins, your data will no longer be accessible. 

I recommend that you burn additional discs as time goes by, or move the data over to your own external hard drive.

 

Initially, I will convert your original camera RAW files to small 100dpi, sRGB, 1mb, 4x5 JPEG files for your image review and selection process.  You may copy the image discs as you wish.

Your selections can then be converted to 300dpi or 600dpi, sRGB, 8 or 16 bit, sharpened and Photoshopped JPEG and TIFF files, in any size from 1"x2" to 30"x40".   The larger, higher resolution files will take much longer for some computers to open.  The larger file sizes will also require more discs to store the data.

I can put your images directly onto your own hard drive and deliver or ship that drive to you.

Your huge TIFF files will make the best prints.  Your small JPEG files should only be used for your emails.  You can't email TIFF files and you shouldn't print JPEGs. 

Your small JPEG files contain very little, but highly compressed, digital data.  The best, enlarged, high-resolution, photographic prints  are made with huge TIFF files, with vast amounts of color and high resolution data. 

If you print from any JPEG file, the colors will be muddy and the image will be "noisy" and soft.

I will post-produce your files in any size you need to meet your needs.  The larger the final required size, the larger the file.  A 4x5 print will need about 7mb of sRGB, 8 bit, TIFF file information.  A 16x20 print will need about 85mb of sRGB, 8 bit, TIFF file information.  You can print a 16x20 from a 7mb file but it will not be pretty.

Depending on the assignment, a few sample JPEG images can be emailed to you. 

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Prices

 

Just Left click on the "Events" button, above, or the Senior Presentations button, on the left, to find the photos from your National Charity League, Saddleback Valley Chapter, Senior Presentation, 2008 Special Event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I bill on a Time and Materials Basis.  If it takes my time, I will generally need to bill for the services.  This covers all of my digital bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal photography, aerial photography, commercial photography and medical photography services.

These prices are my normal rates.  If you pay with cash or check, I will discount my normal hourly service fees by 10%. 

 

 

I shoot aerial photography, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal, medical and commercial photography assignments at a shot-rate that varies with each assignment.  Typically, I shoot about 100-200 shots per hour of service. 

When I am shooting high definition, digital aerial photography assignments, from the helicopter, I can easily shoot 1 frame every 3 or 4 seconds.

There is no limit to the number of shots that are possible.  If the event is a small, intimate affair, 150 total images might be all that is required.  Larger assignments will demand larger volumes of pictures to be taken.

Just Left click on the "Events" button, above, or the Senior Presentations button, on the left, to find the photos from your National Charity League, Saddleback Valley Chapter, Senior Presentation, 2008 Special Event.

 

Destination Events

I am available for nationwide destination aerial photography, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal, medical and commercial photography services.  I will use the same, wonderful, Hasselblad H1 and Phase One, P25 and P45 digital camera systems, no matter where I work.

My digital photography service prices are the same regardless of where I work.  Just get me there and back.  The rest will be priced at the same rate of $150.00 per hour, plus expenses.    All charges will be estimated and itemized before the assignment begins. 

I always arrive 1-2 days early, at no extra cost, for distant Destination Events.  I am always 2 hours early, at no extra cost, for my local events.

 

Availability

I am available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year to shoot aerial photography, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, legal, medical and commercial photography assignments. 

My equipment is ready around the clock.   All of my equipment has back ups and I have never gone down during an assignment.

I use the best, the most expensive, the most reliable camera and support equipment available.

 

 

Just Left click on the "Events" button, above, or the Senior Presentations button, on the left, to find the photos from your National Charity League, Saddleback Valley Chapter, Senior Presentation, 2008 Special Event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services

My consumer-level services include;

Weddings, Debutante Balls, Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, Senior Presentations, Family and Pet Portraits, Family and Corporate Special Events. 

My corporate and business-level services include;

Helicopter & Fixed-wing Aerial, Food, Legal, Medical, Industrial, Advertising, Commercial, Construction, Architectural, Special Events, Public Relations, Publication, Political and Forensics.

I am location-portable and can work in a studio or on-location anywhere in the country.  Just get me there and back.  The rest will be billed at the same rates as my local services.

All of my professional lighting equipment can be shipped and set up on location.

 

 

I work on an hourly rate of $150.00 per hour, billed per 15-minute increments, with a 2-hour minimum, plus materials.  Complex, long-term and high-volume contracts are often volume discounted.

I use Hasselblad, H1, cameras. 

These are the same, high-end, medium-format cameras used by NASA in our Space Shuttle program.  These are the most expensive and the sharpest cameras in the world.  You have never seen such high quality pictures.  You'll be able to count the threads in your shirt.

I use the Sinar, 4"x5", large-format camera. 

This highly refined, very complex, large-format camera allows me to modify and to control the shapes of my client's products and the focal points for architectural, food, product and advertising photography.  This camera produces incredible pictures.

 

I use Phase One, P25 and P45 Digital Recorders. 

These are the newest, most expensive, highest-resolution, 22 and 39-million-pixel, digital capture systems in the world.  You can't  believe the quality of these systems.  The colors are vibrant, the details are sharp and they can be cropped and enlarged to 30"x40" prints with the sharpest possible details. 

This fall, 2008, the newest Phase One, 60-million pixel digital recorder will be released.

 

I shoot commercial-quality 25mb and 45mb RAW files ONLY. 

 

I use Phase One, Capture One Pro for all of my Post-production work.  This is  the Industry Standard file conversion software.  It quickly and easily produces the best skin colors, the highest resolutions and the nicest pictures.

I do all of my own booking, shooting and post-production work. 

Copyrights

Generally speaking, you will own all rights to the materials produced for you, except for the limited reuse rights that I will retain for my own marketing purposes.  You will be able to do anything you wish with your images.  There will be no extra charge for this provision. 

In all cases, I will maintain a limited re-use copyright that will permit me to use selected images from your assignment in print, on-line and at public venues, as needed to suit my own marketing goals.  I will not resell images from your assignment without your specific written release and possible financial consideration.  Nothing will be available to any third party, for any reason, at any time.  Nothing will be sold on-line.  Event images will be displayed for review only.  Reorders will need to be made through you, from the supplied discs with the numbered images, after your event.  There will be no charge to any party for my on-line image samples.  There will be no time limit to the use of these images.