Morgan Photography LLC provides flexible rates and terms for clients. Clients are not forced to pay for packages that include a specified number of prints at various sizes. If clients carefully read the following information below and understand how charges are assessed, they can control how much they wish to spend and order exactly what they need:  professional prints, images on a CD or a combination of both.

The total cost of hiring Morgan Photography to shoot a one hour assignment or special event (except a wedding) within the Columbia area starts at $150.00 (add cost of prints and/or burning images to a CD or flash drive, sales tax and shipping and handling). The total cost of hiring Morgan Photography to shoot a three hour wedding starts at $1,100.00 (add cost of prints and/or burning images to a CD or flash drive, sales tax and shipping and handling).

How Charges are Assessed:

For an assignment or a special event, Morgan Photography charges a minimum of $150.00 for one hour or less + $120.00 for each additonal hour rounded-down to the quarter-hour, i.e., $30.00 per 15 minutes, plus expenses (agreed upon in advance).  So, the cost of shooting a two-and-a-half-hour event within the Columbia area would be $330.00 NET for TIME ($150.00 + 180.00). PRINTS AND/OR IMAGES COST MORE. See Option One and Option Two below to determine additional charges.

When shooting a wedding, Morgan Photography charges a minimum of $1,100.00 for three hours or less + $120.00 for each additional hour rounded-down to the quarter-hour, i.e., $30.00 per 15 minutes, plus expenses (agreed upon in advance). So, the cost of shooting a five-and-a-half-hour wedding within the Columbia area would be $1,400.00 NET for TIME ($1,100.00 + 300.00). PRINTS AND/OR IMAGES COST MORE. See Option One and Option Two below to determine additional charges.

Option One (Ordering Prints):  Clients may order professionally-processed prints (see pricing above) on Kodak Endura Paper (E-Surface or Metallic) after viewing 72 dpi 400-pixel-wide (on longest side) unprocessed proofs (JPEGs). After selecting and ordering prints from Morgan Photography (see rates above), they will receive an electronic copy of each print they ordered by size up to 8" X 12" or 10" X 10" on a CD or flash drive. This allows clients to archive their electronic images and/or order additonal prints later. NOTE:  Morgan Photography uses the professional labs to produce the highest quality prints, and the difference between such prints and prints produced elsewhere can be significant. Please read “Digital Storage Policy” below.

Option Two (Ordering Images Burned to a CD or Flash Drive):  Clients may order images on a CD or flash drive instead of prints, but they will be responsible for re-sizing their own images to produce smaller prints. They must also remember the “rule of proportionately” and understand how re-sizing such images might affect how their prints are cropped. Unless properly “canvas-sized” before ordering, photo labs might crop their prints a little across the top and bottom or left and right when prints are ordered at smaller sizes. For example, an 8" X 12" image produces a 5" X 7.5" and 4" X 6" prints. An 8" X 10" image produces 5" X 6.25" and 4" X 5" prints. Most photo labs only produce standard-size prints. For a DSF of $3.00 per photo, however, customers may hire Morgan Photography to canvas-size images when necessary to produce proportionately smaller prints. Morgan Photography shoots approximately 50 photos per hour. So, the cost of processing 50 photos taken over a one-hour period would be $150.00. NOTE:  Option one (ordering prints) can be the more affordable when clients select and order a smaller number of prints from Morgan Photography. Option two (ordering images burned to a CD or flash drive) can be the more affordable for short special events, including weddings, when clients wish to receive all images and produce prints elsewhere as needed.

IMPORTANT:  Unless Morgan Photography is familiar with the business, organization or individual hiring to shoot a special event (including a wedding), a personal meeting between Morgan Photography and the potential client is required. For a number of important reasons, a personal meeting is required with anyone wishing to hire Morgan Photography to shoot a wedding. Morgan Photography accepts assignments to shoot special events within the Columbia area, and only makes exceptions to this rule in special situations.