Costs for different types of shooting
Here you can see information about packages and costs
Standard Session — $495
⏳ Duration: 50 minutes
📍 Location: up to two spots (e.g., beach + park, or two downtown locations)
🌿 Soft Shooting Plan: time for variety, outfit changes, and exploring light — perfect for families, couples, or small groups.
Includes:
- 25 finished photographs with basic color correction
- 1–2 outfits
- location and style consultation
- time for outfit change and short breaks
Extras:
- Additional images: $10 each
- high-end retouching: $15 per image
Mini Session — $295
⏳ Duration: 20 minutes
📍 Location: one spot — beach, park, or historic downtown
🌿 Soft Shooting Plan: relaxed and easy-going — perfect for a quick update of family, couple, or individual portraits.
Includes:
- 10 finished photographs with basic color correction
- guidance on poses and locations
- one outfit
- relaxed, natural atmosphere
- Edited photos delivered within 7 days.
- Easy rescheduling if your plans change, or it rains.
- We photograph large families with no extra charge for the number of people.
Extras:
- Additional images: $10 each
- Professional retouching: $15 per image
Children’s Portraits Session — $650
⏳ Duration: 75 minutes
📍 Location: beach, park, or home — decided together during booking
🌿 Soft Shooting Plan — gentle and child-friendly
This session is designed with children’s comfort in mind.We take breaks when needed, play, explore the surroundings, and follow your child’s mood. No rushing, no strict posing — just natural smiles and moments that truly reflect their personality.
🧸 Preparation
Before the session, we’ll discuss:
- your child’s age and temperament
- presence of siblings or pets
- clothing and color palette
- favorite toys, books, or accessories
- which parent or guardian will be present during the session
- We know how to work with children, using toys on the camera, handheld props, and videos on a smartphone.
🎁 What’s Included
- 35 finished photographs with basic color correction
- relaxed, playful atmosphere ensuring genuine expressions
- Edited photos delivered within 7 days.
- time for outfit changes or short breaks
➕ Extras
- Additional images (basic edit): $10 each
- Professional retouching: $15 per image
Extended Session — $850
⏳ Duration: half a day 📍 Location: studio, on-site, or multiple locations — as required for the project🌿 Tailored Shooting Plan: fully customized to your needs — from creative concept to final delivery.
Perfect for:
- Editorial and magazine features
- Calendar productions
- Lookbooks and product collections for retail stores
- Corporate branding and team portraits
- Advertising campaigns
- Special events and custom creative projects
What’s Included (adapted to the project):
- Concept development and mood boards
- Location scouting and permits (if required)
- Professional lighting setup
- Unlimited shots during the scheduled time
- High-resolution edited images (quantity based on scope)
- Option for same-day preview gallery
Extras (optional):
- Professional make-up and hair styling team
- Wardrobe styling and prop sourcing
- Advanced retouching for print or advertising standards
- Print production for calendars, magazines, or marketing materialy
💡 Price: $850 for a half-day session with both of us working, 50 finished photographs. Larger productions are quoted individually.
📏 📏 Custom Print Price Formula
Width × Height (in inches) × $0.2 = Final Price
- Example: 12″ × 18″ × $0.2 = $43
- Example: 6″ × 4″ × $0.2 = $4.8
This formula applies to all types of prints:
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🎨 Rolled Canvas
🖼️ Fine Art Paper (matte or satin)
💎 Why Choose Us?
- Canon LUCIA PRO II pigment inks — for deep blacks, vivid color, and up to 100 years of archival quality.
- Museum-grade media — fine art paper and gallery canvas from trusted brands like Red River, Hahnemühle and Canon Pro Media.
- Each print is manually reviewed and quality-checked before delivery.
- We don’t mass-produce. Every image we print is a personal story — crafted with intention.
- 📦 Shipping rates: • Florida — $10 • USA — $20 • International — calculated individually
✨ You’re not just printing an image — you’re preserving a memory in gallery-quality form.
Let us help you bring your story to life — one frame at a time.
CONTACTS:
My photography goes far beyond technique. It is about empathy, presence, and the art of truly seeing people. I have been practicing photography for over 40 years, and I do not work alone: this is a family business. My son Anatoly runs the session with you, light and direction, while I wait for the frame. Experience on its own repeats what already worked; youth on its own has nothing to repeat yet. Together they are what you see in these pictures. We photograph families, couples, children and seniors in St. Augustine, and we print and frame the work in our own studio.
+1904 835 9485
Frequently asked questions
Historic streets or the beach?
The old town gives you coquina walls, arches and narrow streets that exist nowhere else in the country. The beach gives space, sky and room for children to run. Families with small kids usually do better on the beach, couples and seniors in the old town. If you cannot choose, take the extended session and we do both.
What time of day is best?
The honest local answer: golden hour in St. Augustine lasts about 32 minutes, not an hour. We are at latitude 30 and the sun drops almost straight down. So we do not build the whole session around it. We bring studio flash, which means midday sun and open shade both work, and we save the last half hour of light for the one frame that deserves it.
Will we walk a lot?
No. We have walked these routes ourselves with GPS and measured them. A standard session stays inside three or four points within a few hundred metres of each other, with the car close by. With grandparents, a stroller or a toddler we cut it to two points and bring the light to you.
What happens if it rains?
We move the session at no cost to the nearest date that works for you. Florida rain usually lasts half an hour, so sometimes we simply wait it out under an arcade and photograph the wet cobblestones afterwards. They look beautiful.
We have never been photographed. What do we do?
Nothing. That part is our job. Anatoly runs the session and tells you where to stand, what to do with your hands and when to look away. Vladimir waits for the moment it stops looking like posing. Nobody is asked to say cheese.
What should we wear?
Two or three colours across the whole group, nothing brighter than the faces, no large logos. Linen, cotton and soft knits sit well in this light. Send us a photo of what you plan to wear and we will tell you honestly if something fights with the background.
How many photographs do we get, and when?
The number is fixed in each package: 10, 25, 35 or 50 finished photographs, colour corrected and ready to print. They arrive within seven days. Extra images are $10 each, deep retouching is $15 per image.
Do you photograph children and newborns?
Yes, and we plan for it. The children’s session is 75 minutes because the first twenty belong to the child deciding whether we are interesting. There are two of us, so one plays while the other works.
Do you print, or do we get files only?
We print ourselves, in our own studio, on Canon LUCIA PRO II pigment inks and museum grade paper and canvas. Your photographs never leave the hands of the people who took them. A print costs width times height in inches times $0.2.
We were photographed at IrisProPhoto. Does that change anything?
Yes. IrisProPhoto™ is our other studio, the same family. If you have been photographed there, take 20% off any portrait session booked before November 30. It works the other way too: come to a portrait session and we will show you your own iris on the studio screen, free of charge.