Nitty Gritty Details:

50% of the session fee is used as a retainer that must be paid at time of booking & is non refundable, non transferable.  The remainder of your session must be paid in full in order to receive your digital files. The session fee serves as a retainer to reserve the date of your session and covers a portion of the time it takes me to help you to plan all of the logistics for your portrait session, capture your senior portraits, and prepare your final images for viewing.

AGAIN: The retainer is nonrefundable in the event the Client cancels or changes the engagement.

If Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer voluntarily reschedules the session date due to circumstances beyond the studio’s control (i.e. illness, death, unavoidable weather events), and the client also agrees, the retainer remains non-refundable but transferrable. That means we reschedule.

Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer retains copyright to any and all photographs, and hereby grants the Client private printing rights for personal use only.

At such time that Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer provides the Client with a digital gallery to download images, Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer’s contractual obligation is fulfilled. Refunds are prohibited and reshoots will be at the discretion of artist.

I will not show, distribute or sell any unedited, raw images that do not make the cut for your package. I, the photographer, decide which images taken will be processed & put into your gallery.  All images, electronic or prints are owned by Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer and may not be edited or altered in any way by anyone else other than Capture & Design Photography by Heather Palmer.  In regard to any digital images that you may receive or purchase: Client is licensed to print copies up to the allotted size for personal use only, that includes sharing a printed image to family and/or friends. You may share the digital file on social media sites as well. Business or commercial use prohibited. Any unauthorized display, reproduction, sale, entrance in competitions, distribution, alteration ( includes no cropping, color adjustment, text overlays etc), or defamatory, malicious other misuse in digital or print format is strictly prohibited and can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. For permission to use these images in digital or print format for other than personal use, please contact Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer

If Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer cannot perform due to fire, casualty, violent weather, Illness or other obstacles beyond the control of the photographer all monies will be returned at 100% of what has already been paid by the client and no more and that this contract will become null and void.  This also applies to the malfunction of any equipment used by Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer.  Equipment is not limited to camera body and lenses, memory cards, lost or stolen images, crashed computers, prints or memory cards and also any damage not at the fault of the photographer. If in the event that Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer fails to perform for any other reason Capture & Design, Photography by Heather Palmer shall not be liable for any amount in excess of the value of the client’s package. If partial images are lost a prorated amount of the exposures lost will be based on the estimated percentage of the total number of original images taken. Please also take into consideration that Capture & Design Photography by Heather Palmer will not break or bend laws, rules or bylaws to accommodate a specific photo for the client.

A more detailed client agreement/release will need to be signed before the session commences.