Policies

Booking & Payment Policies

A signed contract and non-refundable $100 retainer are required in order to book your photo sessions with Gleam Photography. 

  • Your balance payment will be due the day of your photo session and you may submit payment via cash, Zelle to 847-323-4094 or request a PayPal invoice. 
  • A retainer is non-refundable, but transferrable to another date and is always applied back to your session should an unforeseen reschedule be needed.
  • The retainer will be forfeit after 3 unsuccessful reschedules within a calendar year (unrelated to photographer’s initiative or bad weather).

Other Policies

All final digital images released to clients will have undergone professional artistic retouching according to the photographer’s discretion.  Any additional special retouching requests will incur an additional fee per image, depending on the difficulty of the edit.

Client will be responsible for paying all fees relating to location choice (parking, admission, permits, etc).

A travel fee will be applicable for location 10+ miles from 60093.

Prints & Products – Shipping charges will apply only if a client requests items to be shipped, otherwise all print orders (prints/albums/canvases, etc.) will be available for pick up at the studio in Northfield, IL.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is protected by Federal Copyright Law.  It is unlawful to copy or scan any images without permission of the photographer.  In order to control the quality of the work produced, the photographer is the only one who can crop or modify any image produced during your photo session. By violating this law, you are devaluing my work, as a photographer. Gleam Photography retains the copyright and ownership of all images taken during your session/event, and reserves the right to reproduce images for portfolio use, studio display, gallery display, website, social media, promotion, photo contests, etc.
Clients are not allowed to reproduce any images without written consent from photographer (a print release will be provided with each digital image purchase.)  The images that will be provided to you are licensed to you for personal use only, including printing, e-mailing, and sharing online. 

You may share images on social media with credit noted to Gleam Photography.  You may not enter images into any photo contests without permission.