Is it really FREE?
Yes, you don't have to pay for my time and work. I will come to your house or any other location
we agree upon. It could be a birthday party in a park, family picnic on a beach, soccer game, ballet
rehearsal, family reunion or any other event. If you are a starting model and want to build a portfolio,
or just want some portraits of your family I can accommodate it as well. I will travel up to 40 miles
from San Jose, CA and will spend up to 4 hours on the spot taking hundreds of pictures for you to
choose from. I will enhance and retouch to a certain point the best pictures, which can either be
given to you on CD or uploaded to a website like
http://www.snapfish.com or
http://www.ofoto.com
(I am not affiliated with these websites in any way, I just use their services). You can then print any
images you like in any size you want directly from them.
You will have to pay my entrance fee to your event (if there is any). If you want me to do more
extensive retouching or artistic stylization to some images, it will cost you about $10 - $30 dollars
per image. It can be done for selected images at any point later on.
Keep in mind I only provide digital images for free. You print them at your own expense.
How is it possible?
We all know there is no free lunch, so what's the catch here?
I specialize in stock photography, which means I create images that can be sold many times through
several
websites,
which act like photo banks. They store hundreds of thousand of images, which can be
bought by anybody who needs them. It could be web designers, publishers, small business owners making
catalogs, magazines, brochures, calendars, etc. All these
websites have slightly different policies on how
the images can be used, but none of them allow images to be used in any negative context. None of your
personal information including your name can be revealed to a buyer. If the buyer wants to have more of your pictures, he/she can only contact me as a photographer to arrange another photo session, for
which (if you are agree) you will get paid. You can see some usage examples here. It's actually fun to see
a familiar face in otherwise boring health insurance booklet.
All I want from you instead of payment for my work is a signed model release form
I'd appreciate if you printed the form and filled it out prior to your photo session for each person to be photographed.